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Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

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Past deals in Artificial Intelligence

Rely.io

Seed Round in 2022
detech.ai provides a unified modern AIOps platform that turns your data into actionable insights to help you detect & resolve issues proactively. When your online services hiccup, customers go elsewhere. And if your experts are constantly reacting to incidents after they happen, your innovation and agility will plummet. In order to remain competitive and grow, you need seamless operations. However, organisations generate amounts of data that humans simply cannot monitor effectively, therefore AIOps is critical to reduce and manage IT incidents. Our platform autonomously learns the normal behaviour of your applications, accurately detecting anomalies and alerting the right people to address only the problems that need addressing. This will allow you to resolve issues before they impact the business, while freeing people to focus on innovating.

NeuralSpace

Seed Round in 2022
Neural Space is a natural language understanding platform for low-resource languages. Their products are AI-Powered, API-based, Scalable, and Multilingual.

nFlux AI

Series A in 2022
nFlux, Inc. develops a software that provides artificial intelligence, visual content, and lingual information. The company offers Ask Engine, a unified integrated interface where users can acquire information from multiple sources, by asking a question. It serves entertainment, education, security, and healthcare sector. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

LifeTap

Pre Seed Round in 2022
LifeTap is an Artificial Intelligence based on Machine Learning and Opinion Dynamics theories that, through an IOS and an Android app, gives users recommendations based on their personality and on external conditions. Fast and accurate recommendations for individuals or groups about anything that people might want to do during the day: going to a restaurant, to a bar, watching a movie, doing some hobbies, watching a series, spending some quality time at a cafe, and much more. Normally, people invest a lot of time and energy in the process of decision making. "Which restaurant should we choose tonight?", "Will I like that movie?", "Is this hobby the right one for me in this moment of my life?". Despite time and energy invested, people often end up taking decisions far from being optimal. LifeTap speeds up and increases the quality of this decision making process, both for individuals and for groups. Time and energy spent in negotiating this or that activity are substituted by just one tap on the screen.

FutureFit AI

Seed Round in 2022
FutureFit AI is an AI-powered intelligence platform for the future of work. Described as the 'Google Maps for your Career'​, it draws on over a billion data points to identify future skills, assess current capabilities, and map upskilling & reskilling pathways for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Having won awards from the US Government, Google AI, and TD Bank, FutureFit Ai is currently partnering with both Fortune 1000 companies, national governments, and foundations on 3 continents around AI, automation, and the future of work.

NeuralSpace

Seed Round in 2022
Neural Space is a natural language understanding platform for low-resource languages. Their products are AI-Powered, API-based, Scalable, and Multilingual.

Spiky.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Spiky.ai is the first AI-based modular integrated advanced analytics platform that leads the Edutech 5.0 revolution. Spiky.ai is a one-stop-shop solution, gathering all essential AI-based analytics products under one platform.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2022
TrojAI is developing solutions to protect artificial intelligence platforms from adversarial attacks on training data and AI models, such as poisoning or embedded Trojan and evasion attacks. Focused on computer vision platforms, the data transformation and model monitoring techniques developed by TrojAI not only aid in the defence against such attacks, but in some cases also provide incremental improvements in model accuracy and performance. TrojAI’s secure cloud SaaS service also includes a forensically tracked archival repository system to provide customers with a complete solution for peace of mind AI security and brand protection.

Omaiven Health

Funding Round in 2021
Omaiven Health, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in healthcare technology by offering an AI-driven application called askMia. This innovative chatbot functions as a virtual front desk, facilitating communication between patients and doctor's offices. The application simplifies access to healthcare information by utilizing artificial intelligence to match users with appropriate healthcare providers based on their symptoms and conditions. It also enables patients to easily schedule appointments and receive guidance for their medical visits, thereby enhancing the overall patient experience in navigating healthcare services.

Cognitive Space

Seed Round in 2021
Cognitive Space is a technology firm specializing in the automation of command and control for satellite operations through its proprietary CNTIENT-SC3 platform. The company leverages artificial intelligence to streamline mission planning and management for constellations of Earth-observing and telecommunications satellites. By providing a software-as-a-service solution, Cognitive Space addresses the evolving demands of the space market, enabling commercial satellite operators to optimize their assets in response to dynamic conditions. The leadership team, boasting over 50 years of experience in space systems and software development, is committed to enhancing the efficiency of satellite operations. This innovation facilitates improved monitoring of Earth for various applications, including economic, environmental, and national security purposes.

EyeKnow AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
EyeKnow uses AI and computer vision to provide 24/7 monitoring of children and seniors under care at home or care facilities. Our solution tracks incidents, such as falls, irregular activity, etc, and interactions between caregivers and children or seniors including abuse, negligence, etc. Our system seamlessly integrates with off-the-shelf security cameras, and shares insights and alerts with the relevant stakeholders, via a live dashboard and mobile app.

Cedience

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Biotech Square is using artificial intelligence to reconstruct the regulatory journeys of drug development teams, highlight the lessons within and help them de-risk their next strategies.

Quartolio

Funding Round in 2021
Quartolio Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an AI-powered platform aimed at enhancing research efficiency. Founded in 2016 and based in Long Island, New York, Quartolio's platform facilitates the connection, discovery, and management of scholarly documents, data, and discussions. By utilizing natural language processing, it streamlines the synthesis of insights from vast scientific datasets, including articles, clinical trials, and patents. Quartolio has garnered recognition as one of the leading Data/AI startups by Hello Tomorrow and has participated in prestigious programs such as the MIT Global Entrepreneurship program and the NYU StartEd Incubator. The company maintains partnerships with several academic institutions, including the New York Institute of Technology, further establishing its role in the research community.

Eunimart

Funding Round in 2021
Eunimart Multichannel Pvt. Ltd. is an innovative company based in Hyderabad, India, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven cross-border e-commerce ecosystem that simplifies and centralizes the management of global e-commerce businesses. Eunimart provides a comprehensive suite of services, including strategy and planning, e-commerce technology, fulfillment solutions, and digital cataloging. The company aims to assist e-commerce sellers in reaching international marketplaces by automating various tasks, enhancing profitability through forecasting and demand planning, and offering consultancy services. Eunimart positions itself as a one-stop solution for merchants, focusing on accessibility and affordability to help them achieve their business objectives.

MixPose

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yoga streaming with AI

Rely.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
detech.ai provides a unified modern AIOps platform that turns your data into actionable insights to help you detect & resolve issues proactively. When your online services hiccup, customers go elsewhere. And if your experts are constantly reacting to incidents after they happen, your innovation and agility will plummet. In order to remain competitive and grow, you need seamless operations. However, organisations generate amounts of data that humans simply cannot monitor effectively, therefore AIOps is critical to reduce and manage IT incidents. Our platform autonomously learns the normal behaviour of your applications, accurately detecting anomalies and alerting the right people to address only the problems that need addressing. This will allow you to resolve issues before they impact the business, while freeing people to focus on innovating.

Rely.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
detech.ai provides a unified modern AIOps platform that turns your data into actionable insights to help you detect & resolve issues proactively. When your online services hiccup, customers go elsewhere. And if your experts are constantly reacting to incidents after they happen, your innovation and agility will plummet. In order to remain competitive and grow, you need seamless operations. However, organisations generate amounts of data that humans simply cannot monitor effectively, therefore AIOps is critical to reduce and manage IT incidents. Our platform autonomously learns the normal behaviour of your applications, accurately detecting anomalies and alerting the right people to address only the problems that need addressing. This will allow you to resolve issues before they impact the business, while freeing people to focus on innovating.

Geolumina

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Geolumina is an Intuitive AI with geologic insight.

yoona.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
YOONA is the first ever tool that uses AI & machine learning to analyze input data within a few minutes and generate multiple designs.

Enzyme

Pre Seed Round in 2021
On a mission to give every person and every organization the superpowers to build software, Enzyme is an artificial intelligence-powered tool that helps people build websites faster and at scale with #nocode.

Cogniant

Venture Round in 2021
Cogniant is an AI assisted digital health platform for monitoring chronic and mental health conditions.

AskSid USA

Seed Round in 2021
AskSid Technology Solutions is a specialist Conversational AI solution for retail and consumer goods delivering 3 outcomes - a) Accelerated Conversions (by simplifying the shopper's journey b) Enrich Product Knowledge-base (by discovering new consumer queries & questions on your products) and c) Precision marketing insights (from raw demand signals hidden in 1:1 customer conversations)

NeuralSpace

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Neural Space is a natural language understanding platform for low-resource languages. Their products are AI-Powered, API-based, Scalable, and Multilingual.

FutureFit AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
FutureFit AI is an AI-powered intelligence platform for the future of work. Described as the 'Google Maps for your Career'​, it draws on over a billion data points to identify future skills, assess current capabilities, and map upskilling & reskilling pathways for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Having won awards from the US Government, Google AI, and TD Bank, FutureFit Ai is currently partnering with both Fortune 1000 companies, national governments, and foundations on 3 continents around AI, automation, and the future of work.

YData

Pre Seed Round in 2020
YData helps adopters of AI to improve and generate high quality data so they can become tomorrow's industry leaders. We offer a data-centric development platform for Data Scientists to work with high quality and synthetic data.

Veesual

Pre Seed Round in 2020
What about using AI to create engaging and inspiring images on the spot? This is the challenge Veesual's team is addressing with their image personalization plateform based on Generation AI. Choose a model, pick an apparel and BOOM: you have a new image. For fashion brands and fashion retailers who need to fuel their e-commerce, social media and communication, they create images personalized to specific audience without additional shootings or editings. More images, more personalization, more engagement, more sales: welcome to the era of individual marketing.

TrojAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TrojAI is developing solutions to protect artificial intelligence platforms from adversarial attacks on training data and AI models, such as poisoning or embedded Trojan and evasion attacks. Focused on computer vision platforms, the data transformation and model monitoring techniques developed by TrojAI not only aid in the defence against such attacks, but in some cases also provide incremental improvements in model accuracy and performance. TrojAI’s secure cloud SaaS service also includes a forensically tracked archival repository system to provide customers with a complete solution for peace of mind AI security and brand protection.

InterGen Data

Pre Seed Round in 2020
InterGen Data, Inc. develops a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions and machine learning algorithms for banking, wealth management, insurance, and fintech companies. Its platform allows companies to identify when the clients are likely to have a life event occurrence. The company offers SoLOMON, an artificial engine that record and navigate age, risk tolerance, gender, personas, life stages, life events, healthcare costs, and investments; LSLE, searches for life events; and DAViD, an robo advice widget that provides information about lives. InterGen Data, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Murphy, Texas.

Iamus Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Iamus Technologies Limited is an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Ireland that focuses on developing advanced technology for the poultry industry. The company has created robotic systems specifically designed to assist poultry farmers in making informed and safer production decisions. Over the past two years, Iamus has collaborated with poultry processors worldwide to identify key performance indicators that its robots can continuously monitor within poultry sheds. This technology captures automatic and accurate data regarding the birds and their environment, allowing for real-time analysis and intervention. By utilizing machine learning, Iamus transforms visual, environmental, and biometric data into actionable insights, thereby addressing the increasing demands of modern, intensive broiler production and helping producers optimize their operations.

H2Ok Innovations

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Using artificial intelligence and data science to empower communities with the knowledge for sustainable access to clean water.

Acerta Analytics

Series A in 2020
Acerta Systems Analytics Inc. specializes in providing machine intelligence solutions that convert raw machine data into actionable insights. The company's primary offering, Acerta CHECK, employs a combination of statistical methods, data mining algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify critical issues and anomalies in machine behavior. Targeting the automotive sector, Acerta's solutions cater to OEMs, parts suppliers, and vehicle testing equipment providers, enhancing vehicle health monitoring and data acquisition. Additionally, the company's algorithms are utilized in the aerospace industry for airplane health management and engine testing. By detecting anomalies and predicting equipment failures, Acerta supports manufacturers in optimizing their processes and improving product quality. Founded in 2014 and based in Waterloo, Canada, Acerta is committed to transforming quality control in the automotive industry through advanced artificial intelligence applications.

Y-hat AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
For anyone with large volumes of video, Y-hat AI offers semantic search in videos stored on our cloud through AI. This results in 36,000x faster search compared to lexical search of manually written video tags and titles stored elsewhere.

20tree.ai

Seed Round in 2020
20tree.ai is an artificial intelligence platform focused on forest intelligence, utilizing satellite imagery and advanced computing to analyze various aspects of forests, including tree species, height, diameter, growth predictions, and harvesting potential. Founded in 2018 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, the platform provides precise insights that assist a variety of stakeholders, including forest industry companies, non-governmental organizations, governments, and corporate entities, in making informed decisions regarding natural resources. By offering data-driven solutions, 20tree.ai aims to enhance forest management practices and contribute to the preservation of global forest ecosystems.

nFlux AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
nFlux, Inc. develops a software that provides artificial intelligence, visual content, and lingual information. The company offers Ask Engine, a unified integrated interface where users can acquire information from multiple sources, by asking a question. It serves entertainment, education, security, and healthcare sector. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

GYANT

Series A in 2020
GYANT.com, Inc. is a technology company based in Corte Madera, California, that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based chatbot application designed to enhance the connection between physicians and patients. The company's primary offering, the GYANT platform, assists healthcare providers by facilitating initial diagnostics, treatment recommendations, and prescription guidance through targeted patient inquiries. GYANT serves a variety of healthcare entities, including hospitals, health systems, and integrated delivery networks, aiming to streamline the patient experience. By implementing digital patient journeys, GYANT helps these organizations effectively capture new patients, improve service for existing ones, and automate various processes across their operations. Incorporated in 2016, GYANT focuses on creating solutions that navigate patients to appropriate care settings and in-network resources.

swivl.ai

Seed Round in 2020
We are empowering the next wave of intelligent experiences. Think Duolingo + SquareSpace for AI. swivlStudio provides a toolset for companies to simplify the process of AI training. Our interface allows companies to train their current workforce to provide value in an increasingly AI-first world through step by step guided data labeling exercises. The employees can then manage the feedback loop to train, test, and tune custom machine learning models that personalize their customers’ experiences via natural language processing, personalized search results, and generalized data categorization. By combining the best of human and machine intelligence, companies can now increase speed to launch and improve accuracy over time.

Anthill

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Anthill AI is a software company that offers personal and actionable workforce development. The company was founded by Muriel Clauson and Young-Jae Kim and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

ConverSight

Seed Round in 2020
ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customer report generation costs by over 50%. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis.

Tennibot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tennibot, Inc. specializes in developing an autonomous robotic tennis ball collector, designed to operate effectively on both clay and hard court surfaces. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the company aims to enhance the tennis experience for players globally by offering innovative solutions for ball collection. As the first of its kind in the market, Tennibot's product addresses the needs of tennis enthusiasts by streamlining the retrieval process, allowing players to focus more on their game.

Vake

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vake applies intelligence to satellite images to fingerprint all vessel traffic at sea, with the vision to perform this globally in real-time.

Natural Intelligence Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Natural Intelligence Semiconductor (NIS) is a brand new fabless semiconductor startup company that is developing the next generation processor device called the NNP, or Natural Neural Processor. The NNP embodies a unique architectural design that exhibits properties that enable the human neocortex to outperform machines in most applications. This architecture promises to move beyond the constraints of conventional architectures and deliver disruptive performance in artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytic applications. The NNP enables innovative computational approaches in neuromorphic computing, machine learning, large scale graph analytics, bioinformatics and others.

EdSights

Seed Round in 2020
EdSights uses chatbots and Ai to help universities engage and retain their students.

Downtown.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Downtown.AI provides human movement SaaS platform, which enables users to explore the data and generate analyses, forecasts, and dynamic human movement maps. The cloud platform uses machine learning algorithms, mobile location data, and other sources. It offers solutions, which includes smart mobility services, transportation authorities, and car OEMs to enable autonomous cars. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Apres

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Apres Technologies, Inc, doing business as Apres, develops an analytics platform which is built to scale and explain artificial intelligence decision making. The platform have the features, such as labeling the data, analyzing the results, explaining decisions and data services. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Creavision Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Crea.Vision is working with proprietary computer vision technology to help machines better see and understand the world. It's biologically inspired panoramic computer vision sensor features long range recognition and localisation capability, which enables a range of autonomous solutions for smart buildings, improving safety, productivity and efficiency. Card-less access control, facility management, behaviour analytics and other AI applications.

Southie Autonomy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

MSBAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
MSBAI is solving the reason why 92% of product designers and manufacturers don't use High Performance Computing in engineering. The GURU cognitive AI assistant solves the fundamental ‘expertise-barrier’ holding back most engineers: By delivering ‘Expertise-as-a-Service’ — enabling them to run end-to-end design & analysis workloads for structural, thermal, fluid dynamics, etc. for virtual prototype design exploration.

Retrocausal

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retrocausal builds intelligence augmentation systems that help frontline workers train better, be more efficient at their daily jobs, and improve the processes they drive. Their RetroActivity platform for human activity analysis automatically builds computational models of a complex physical task, given only a handful of recorded demonstrations of the task. Once such a model is built, RetroActivity can finely track the job status from live video, to guide a worker through the task, provide independent training, and perform analytics.

Delta AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Delta AI Pty Ltd is an Australian company based in Brisbane that specializes in developing artificial intelligence-driven software as a service (SaaS) platforms. Founded in 2020, Delta AI offers solutions to help enterprises identify, monitor, and respond to deep fake content, thereby protecting brand identity and intellectual property for media companies. Additionally, the company utilizes computer vision technology to analyze social media, enabling brands to track product trends and gather insights on product usage worldwide. This dual focus allows brands to create and launch new products and marketing strategies more effectively and responsively in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

Caravel

Pre Seed Round in 2020
The app that understands customers and automates work.

Quant Co.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Quant Co. offers AI as a Service products set designed for enterprise innovation leaders. Quant Co’s AI as a Service products set helps innovation leaders at enterprises who have limited or no AI skillset in their team to build their own data-driven and intelligent control and prediction solutions in a pretty simple and fast way, using pre-built yet customizable models than can self-train.

Keys

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Keys is a technology company focused on enhancing communication through innovative solutions. It utilizes artificial intelligence, specifically leveraging GPT-3, to facilitate anticipatory communication. By analyzing user intent, Keys provides suggestions that help individuals write more effectively, quickly, and accurately, addressing common challenges associated with texting, the most widely used communication channel. Founded in 2018 and based in Missoula, Montana, Keys aims to transform the way people communicate, making interactions smoother and more efficient.

Workathlon

Seed Round in 2020
Workathlon IKE operates an online recruitment platform specifically tailored for the hospitality industry, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance the job matching process. The platform enables job seekers to upload resumes and explore various opportunities in hotels and other hospitality sectors, while also assisting employers in finding candidates that meet their job specifications. Established in 2015 and based in Marousi, Greece, Workathlon has garnered the trust of over thirty thousand hospitality professionals and serves more than 350 companies, including hotels, tour operators, and restaurants across Cyprus, Germany, Malta, the United Arab Emirates, and Switzerland. It has become a key resource for both job seekers looking to advance their careers and employers aiming to recruit top talent in the hospitality field.

bestselfy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bestselfy is a company that specializes in developing a personalized coaching platform aimed at enhancing leadership soft skills among employees. Founded in 2019, the platform utilizes AI technology to create tailored coaching plans for individual team members, focusing on their unique goals, strengths, and areas for improvement. This approach enables managers to monitor progress over time and fosters a culture of continuous learning and development within organizations. By improving employee engagement and retention, Bestselfy's platform contributes to overall business success.

Spiral

Seed Round in 2019
Spiral is a software company which is focused on building solutions for customer feedback using AI.

Spiral

Seed Round in 2019
Spiral is a software company which is focused on building solutions for customer feedback using AI.

Replica Studios

Seed Round in 2019
Replica Studios creates naturally expressive voice-overs and performances through an AI that can replicate the human voice. It captures unique speech patterns, pronunciation, and emotional range to create a realistic Replica Voice. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland.

StoryFit

Venture Round in 2019
StoryFit Inc. offers artificial intelligence insights and machine learning solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The company’s products include StoryFit Metadata and StoryFit Analytics, which enables the publisher to analyze the metadata using artificial intelligence and provide insights related to audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, faceted comps, and informed marketing intelligence. StoryFit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

GamY

Seed Round in 2019
GamY is a company focused on developing an artificial intelligence-driven battery management system aimed at enhancing the longevity of battery-operated devices. Utilizing a digital twin management platform, GamY monitors and optimizes battery performance across a variety of applications, including e-bikes, electric vehicles, home appliances, e-scooters, drones, electric boats, airplanes, and energy storage systems. By improving battery efficiency, GamY helps users maximize the lifespan and performance of their products.

Spliqs Intelligent Media

Seed Round in 2019
Spliqs is an application powered by AI that enables users to create music.

ReelData AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ReelData Inc. develops artificial intelligence software for aquaculture feed cameras, which allows fish farms to measure biomass, sea lice, and health in real-time. Its software helps farms to reduce the amount of fish-feed needed and provides information to optimize the health of the fish. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Halifax, Canada.

FLOD AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flod specializes in the development of an AI-based surveillance device intended for predictive maintenance of infrastructure. Its product can detect and locate warning signs of upcoming breakdown for any type of maintenance-critical material, enabling businesses to minimize their carbon footprint and take control of maintenance costs.

Good People

Seed Round in 2019
Hello Iris uses AI and NLP to analyze a user's freeform text data input and generate a unique psychometric profile based on the way they talk and the words they use. It helps build a foundation for self-awareness and mindfulness, so we can become more aware of how we show up in our lives and relationships.

YOURIKA

Seed Round in 2019
YOURIKA combines years of AI research from the University of Waterloo (Top 5 in AI) with our proprietary technology and domain expertise to make smarter and more connected learning products. This includes our own platform, ORBITS, that liberates teenage students to work smarter when learning remotely.

Spiral

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Spiral is a software company which is focused on building solutions for customer feedback using AI.

EX-IQ

Pre Seed Round in 2019
EX-IQ, Inc. is a technology company based in Dallas, Texas, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing application software and a web-based platform that transforms documents into interactive audio files, which can be accessed through voice commands or touch. This innovative approach allows users to engage with written content through highlighting and voice notes, enhancing their learning experiences. The company’s mobile and desktop applications leverage artificial intelligence to create personalized learning environments, catering to a diverse user base that includes students, professionals, and lifelong learners. By prioritizing efficiency and productivity, EX-IQ seeks to transform how individuals interact with information and maximize their learning potential.

ImagoAI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ImagoAI provides agri-food quality decision system using Artificial Intelligence. The AI powered system helps in delivering consistent food quality, generate premium products, and prevent supply chain waste. Companies use our technology to increase revenues, reduce food loss, and prevent product recalls.

Alpha Drive

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Alpha Drive Is A Platform Providing Cloud-Based Tools For Testing And Validation Of AI Algorithms In Simulation.Alpha Drive takes care of the infrastructure and automation of testing and validation so developers can focus on algorithm performance.

Respeecher

Seed Round in 2019
Respeecher, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven voice cloning technology. Its innovative platform enables users to replicate the voice of another person, facilitating applications such as dubbing for movies and television shows while preserving the original voice. Additionally, Respeecher provides services for audiobook production that features the author's voice, enhancing the listening experience. The technology leverages advancements in deep learning and machine learning, allowing for the creation of high-quality synthetic speech that retains the intonation and prosody of the input speech. This capability also extends to call centers, where a single voice can be tailored to address various customer personas. Moreover, Respeecher's technology can assist individuals with speech difficulties, further broadening its impact and utility.

Ambit

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ambit AI Limited provides a conversational AI platform for businesses to create enterprise-grade chatbots. Its products include Ambit Navigator, Ambit Support, and Ambit Sales. The company’s products enable its clients’ customers to navigate through their websites. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

Ejenta

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ejenta Inc. develops an intelligent personal assistant platform that leverages artificial intelligence to understand users' daily activities, monitor adherence to mission plans, and provide personalized advice and support. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Ejenta's technology is built on exclusively licensed NASA research spanning two decades, focusing on intelligent agents, human-robot interaction, and security. The platform integrates wearable and environmental sensors to collect real-time behavioral data, allowing users to interact with their personal agents through mobile devices, Smart TVs, and natural language interfaces. Ejenta's technology is currently utilized in NASA's Mission Control for the International Space Station and is applicable across various industries, including space, government, and healthcare.

HacWare

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Hacware, Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based software that identifies the employees that are most likely to be hacked based on their habits. It products automate sending intelligent messages to the employees to simulate an email hack. The company also offers real-time analytics and training recommendations on email security. Hacware, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Talented

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Talented is a company that identify & invest in employee potential with the world's first automated professional development & discovery system.

nFlux AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
nFlux, Inc. develops a software that provides artificial intelligence, visual content, and lingual information. The company offers Ask Engine, a unified integrated interface where users can acquire information from multiple sources, by asking a question. It serves entertainment, education, security, and healthcare sector. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Diana AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Developer of an AI-based platform designed to provide voice-enabled access to enterprise data. The company's conversational business intelligence and analytics tool allow interacting with the data using natural language via voice or text, helping non-technical users to get insights from the data without the use of coding or SQL.

ConverSight

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ConverSight.ai is artificial intelligence and analytics-based platform that uncovers actionable business insights for enterprises through natural language conversations and enables them to take action instantly. The platform generates tremendous efficiencies across organizational hierarchies from junior to senior leadership, reducing our customer report generation costs by over 50%. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Indianapolis.

SoundTrack AI Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Soundtrack AI is a acoustics-based and AI-enabled Predictive Maintenance Platform.

Omaiven Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Omaiven Health, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in healthcare technology by offering an AI-driven application called askMia. This innovative chatbot functions as a virtual front desk, facilitating communication between patients and doctor's offices. The application simplifies access to healthcare information by utilizing artificial intelligence to match users with appropriate healthcare providers based on their symptoms and conditions. It also enables patients to easily schedule appointments and receive guidance for their medical visits, thereby enhancing the overall patient experience in navigating healthcare services.

Magic AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Magic AI Corp develops a platform through machine learning to video stream animals and humans, for non-verbal forms of data and communication. The company's product Stableguard, operates as a platform for the equine industry to improve the health and security of premium horses and stables. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

DirecTech Labs

Seed Round in 2019
DirecTech Labs, Inc. provides artificial intelligence powered behavior engine for direct and social selling applications. It offers direct sales, machine learning, predictive analytics, data analysis, network marketing, and analytics solutions. DirecTech Labs, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Monica, California. It has additional offices in Noida and Bengaluru, India.

Alexi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Alexsei is a developer of an advanced legal platform that specializes in providing high-quality, comprehensive answers to complex legal questions. Utilizing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning technologies, the platform delivers affordable legal insights in a memo format with rapid turnaround times. By leveraging collective intelligence and a knowledge management system, Alexsei enables legal professionals to efficiently upload, share, and manage their research, streamlining the process of legal inquiry. This innovative approach allows the company to offer significant cost savings while maintaining high standards of accuracy and depth in legal responses.

Bridged

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Bridged, founded by Ashwin Chalam, is striving to improve the efficiency of clients in the artificial intelligence sector through the use of human intelligence and training data. They believe that human intelligence, when combined with machine learning and artificial intelligence, can shape the way they do business in the future.

Compliable

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Rebric uses machine learning and AI systems to help companies stay compliant with sanction list regulations and keep terrorists, human traffickers, and other criminals from receiving or sending money.

Bellwethr

Seed Round in 2019
Bellwethr uses artificial intelligence to increase retention and revenue throughout the customer journey. Bellwethr started around the idea that machine learning and AI should be available to anyone, no matter their technical background. The business was founded in 2017 by Matt Moody, with the sole intention of making artificial intelligence simple enough for anyone to utilize it.

Pluto

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pluto is powered by a humane AI designed to understand and support the dynamics of your different relationships and help you take action on the intentions you have. The company's mission is to revive true human connection and create shared moments of joy with friends and family. The founders are ex-Googlers who met while at MIT, sharing a vision to build software that supports human-powered solutions to being more intentional about who people are and who people are becoming. Pluto is a Techstars Boston 2019 and MIT Delta V 2018 company. The company was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

EdSights

Pre Seed Round in 2019
EdSights uses chatbots and Ai to help universities engage and retain their students.

StoryFit

Series A in 2019
StoryFit Inc. offers artificial intelligence insights and machine learning solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The company’s products include StoryFit Metadata and StoryFit Analytics, which enables the publisher to analyze the metadata using artificial intelligence and provide insights related to audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, faceted comps, and informed marketing intelligence. StoryFit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

20tree.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
20tree.ai is an artificial intelligence platform focused on forest intelligence, utilizing satellite imagery and advanced computing to analyze various aspects of forests, including tree species, height, diameter, growth predictions, and harvesting potential. Founded in 2018 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, the platform provides precise insights that assist a variety of stakeholders, including forest industry companies, non-governmental organizations, governments, and corporate entities, in making informed decisions regarding natural resources. By offering data-driven solutions, 20tree.ai aims to enhance forest management practices and contribute to the preservation of global forest ecosystems.

Orai

Seed Round in 2019
Orai is a company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 2016, that specializes in a public speaking application utilizing artificial intelligence. The application offers users instant feedback on their speech, along with guided lessons to enhance public speaking skills. Orai serves enterprises by providing a scalable and cost-effective solution for communication and soft skill training. With over 300,000 users on its iOS and Android platforms, the app has delivered AI-driven feedback on more than 2 million recordings, helping individuals become more effective and confident communicators.

Cleo Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cleo Robotics is developing a revolutionary new drone technology designed specifically for indoor applications.

Pluto

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pluto is powered by a humane AI designed to understand and support the dynamics of your different relationships and help you take action on the intentions you have. The company's mission is to revive true human connection and create shared moments of joy with friends and family. The founders are ex-Googlers who met while at MIT, sharing a vision to build software that supports human-powered solutions to being more intentional about who people are and who people are becoming. Pluto is a Techstars Boston 2019 and MIT Delta V 2018 company. The company was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

VAUX

Pre Seed Round in 2019
VAUX is an artificial intelligence company.

Rephrase.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Rephrase.ai is a technology company that specializes in creating high-quality videos and animations using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company has developed an AI-powered platform that transforms text into video content featuring a person speaking. This innovative technology utilizes generative AI to analyze and replicate facial features, allowing for the generation of photorealistic faces that correspond to any spoken audio. Rephrase.ai's platform is versatile, catering to various applications such as personalized video marketing, training materials, and digital assistants, making it a valuable tool for businesses in sales, education, and corporate communications.

Smarter Human

Seed Round in 2019
Smarter Human provides businesses with solutions to make their use of AI and machine learning ethical and compliant to regulation. - AI governance - Algorithmic bias - Explainability - Unintended consequences

iNBOTiQA

Pre Seed Round in 2019
iNBOTiQA specializes in developing intelligent business email solutions aimed at enhancing email productivity and management. By integrating with existing email platforms, the company offers automation and workflow management tools that facilitate effective collaboration and tracking. Its platform utilizes machine learning to convert emails into actionable and trackable tasks, thereby improving task ownership and reducing turnaround times. iNBOTiQA addresses the challenges associated with high-volume and group mailboxes, providing clients with valuable insights through data analytics. The company's focus on optimizing performance and reducing risks positions it as a key player in transforming business communication.

Deep 6 AI

Seed Round in 2018
Deep 6 AI is a computer software company that utilizes an AI-based platform that finds patients for clinical trials and it helps to provide cure to people. Its platform specializes in analyzing structured data, such as ICD-10 codes, unstructured clinical data, doctor’s notes, pathology reports, and operating notes. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pasadena, California.

HeyMojo, Inc

Pre Seed Round in 2018
HeyMojo, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing a messaging application tailored for hotels and restaurants. The company focuses on creating hybrid chatbots that integrate both rule-based and AI-driven technologies, enhancing the efficiency of customer interactions. These chatbots are designed to handle routine inquiries, automate customer support, and improve user engagement. Additionally, HeyMojo's unique lead scoring algorithm helps businesses generate and qualify leads effectively. By combining the strengths of both types of chatbots, HeyMojo aims to optimize operational processes without replacing human involvement.

Gastrograph

Series A in 2018
Gastrograph, developed by Analytical Flavor Systems, Inc., is an artificial intelligence platform designed for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the platform enables companies to gather real-time flavor data, detect and predict production flaws, and assess market fit. By moving beyond traditional tasting panels, Gastrograph employs a predictive flavor profile engine to evaluate how new products are likely to perform across various markets and demographic segments. This capability is particularly valuable in an industry characterized by high failure rates, as it helps food companies adapt to rapidly changing consumer preferences and optimize their product development processes. Through its innovative approach, Gastrograph supports packaged food companies in navigating the complexities of the modern marketplace.

i-BrainTech

Seed Round in 2018
i-BrainTech solution is a neuro interface with AI and serious games for sports, which trains brain motion control centers to improve training processes and accelerate recovery. It uses AI and provides real-time indicators of mental state & performance. It also offers analytics tools tracking the dynamics of cognitive state, performance, and individual player characteristics.

Intelistyle

Seed Round in 2018
Intelistyle Ltd. is an artificial intelligence fashion stylist. The company’s software provides personalized styling recommendations. It offers features, such as complete the look, which creates multiple outfits for each of the selected product; personal styling advice via an AI chatbot; visually similar and out of stock, which provides alternatives for out of the stock garments; and wardrobe management. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.