Salesforce Ventures

Replicant is an AI voice technology that solves problems over the phone, improves customer experience, and reduces cost. Replicant was founded on the belief that machines are ready to have useful, complex conversations that will transform the way they interact with the world. The company's initial focus was making Replicant listen closely, think quickly, take actions, and reply fast enough to be conversational. The brain needed to understand complex and colloquial speech patterns and interpret slang and humor. Piece by piece we built elegant tools that allowed Replicant to listen, think, speak, act and interact with the world.

Sama is a globally recognized leader in data annotation solutions for enterprise AI models that require the highest accuracy. As an industry pioneer with 15-years of experience, Sama’s expertise and solutions are trusted by leading companies such as GM, Ford, Continental, Google, and many more. Sama specializes in image, video, language, lidar, and sensor data annotation and validation for complex machine learning algorithms. As a leader in ethical AI and as a Certified B-Corp, we’ve pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good, and has been proven to meaningfully improve employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work. So far, helping more than 60,000 people lift themselves out of poverty.

Scandit is a technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises. The company software brings unrivaled scanning performance to any app on any camera-equipped smart device, from smartphones to wearables to drones and robots - to read barcodes, recognize text and objects, and display real-time information as AR overlays. It helps consumers and employees find things on store shelves with their smartphones, and as things become more contactless. Organizations in retail, transport, logistics, and manufacturing use Scandit to power apps such as mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, proof of delivery, and asset tracking. Use cases in healthcare include tracking patients, medication, specimens, and supplies. Scandit solutions take cost and time out of operations and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Clients include 7-Eleven, Alaska Airlines, Carrefour, Hermes, Johns Hopkins Hospital, La Poste, Levi Strauss & Co, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sephora, and Toyota.

Sama is a globally recognized leader in data annotation solutions for enterprise AI models that require the highest accuracy. As an industry pioneer with 15-years of experience, Sama’s expertise and solutions are trusted by leading companies such as GM, Ford, Continental, Google, and many more. Sama specializes in image, video, language, lidar, and sensor data annotation and validation for complex machine learning algorithms. As a leader in ethical AI and as a Certified B-Corp, we’ve pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good, and has been proven to meaningfully improve employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work. So far, helping more than 60,000 people lift themselves out of poverty.

Figure Eight is a Human-in-the-Loop machine learning platform to create customized large scale high-quality training data. The platform uses machine learning assisted annotation solutions to create high-quality training data needed by models to work in the real world. They supports a wide range of computer vision and natural language processing use cases — video object tracking, autonomous vehicles, robotics, predictive maintenance, facial recognition, medical images, aerial and satellite imagery, consumer product detection, content categorization, intelligent chatbots, document transcription, voice assistant training, audio transcription, sentiment analysis, product categorization, and search relevance - and a broad range of industries - automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, retail and e-commerce, technology, agriculture, manufacturing, medical and healthcare, power and utilities, security and surveillance, transportation and travel, and government. Figure Eight platform operates at an unprecedented scale has generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in California, USA.

Starting with automated image recognition — MetaMind was founded to explore positive and impactful applications for artificial intelligence. We believe AI is only beneficial when it works to simplify the complexity of our daily lives. It is this notion which inspires us to produce technology which is reliable, trustworthy, and easy to use.