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.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Machine Learning

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.

The Collaboratory

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The Collaboratory is accelerating biopharma innovation by building a comprehensive AI-powered research platform for public and proprietary data The platform includes a number of aggregation, search, and summarization features that can be customized to the needs of life sciences companies, including: -Automated data ingestion: The Collaboratory can index and make searchable all text documents across multiple sources within a company - even if the documents' metadata schema do not match -AI-based summarization tools: Users can quickly parse through hundreds of documents using The Collaboratory's automatically-generated document summaries -Figure and image search: User can directly search for scientific figures and key tables within documents - and receive recommendations for related images -Concept-based recommendations: Using new NLP technology, The Collaboratory's platform provides conceptually-related recommendations from both proprietary and public research, helping researchers understand the scientific context around every document -Personalized search: The Collaboratory's platform can recommend content tailored to each user’s needs, based upon their areas of expertise and research interests Those interested in a practical demonstration can also visit thecollaboratory.ai to interact with an online proof-of-concept tool that demonstrates several of The Collaboratory's product features on publicly available scientific data.

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.

Voyance

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Voyance is a big data company that leverages machine learning to assist businesses in making predictive analyses based on their data. The platform enables organizations to answer critical questions regarding revenue forecasts, transaction fraud detection, and customer retention. It simplifies data science by acquiring, validating, storing, and securing data while also preparing it for analysis. Additionally, Voyance facilitates the creation of reports to engage stakeholders effectively. Currently, the company is piloting its services with various organizations in sectors such as banking, e-commerce, and fintech across Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

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.

Omnic.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Omnic.AI is a leader in esports player performance data, utilizing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance training for both professional coaches and aspiring gamers. The company's platform analyzes gameplay videos to assess player performance, generating unique statistics through proprietary algorithms. This enables esports organizations to implement predictive analytics and improve player development. Omnic.AI operates on a straightforward software-as-a-service model, allowing casual gamers to easily upload their gameplay videos and receive tailored coaching recommendations for skill improvement. By combining deep learning technology with innovative performance metrics, Omnic.AI is transforming how player abilities are evaluated and enhanced in the esports industry.

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.

Kintsugi

Seed Round in 2021
Kintsugi utilizes machine learning and voice biomarkers to detect clinical depression and anxiety, providing innovative talk therapy software to users in over 250 cities worldwide. By analyzing short clips of free-form speech, the company has developed a mental healthcare infrastructure that identifies signs of these conditions, thereby assisting medical practitioners in addressing gaps in mental health care. Kintsugi has amassed the world's largest longitudinal, annotated voice data set for this purpose, resulting in the creation of a clinical-grade voice biomarker diagnostic, which is currently pending patent and FDA approval. This technology aims to measure the severity of depression and anxiety in real-time, offering a more effective approach to mental health assessment and intervention.

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.
Asanify automates HR operations, payroll compliances and corporate learning using cutting edge AI for startups, small businesses to enterprises. It cuts sales cycle training cycle down from months to hours by automating sales onboarding and sales training. Additionally provides a chatbot interface for employees to query HR and payroll related FAQs.

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.

Julius Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Julius Technologies offer a proprietary low code platform that creates on-demand fully customized and streamlined Data Science & Analytics systems. This integrated framework allows for true end-to-end automation, full transparency, and almost limitless flexibility. The solution automates the entire machine learning lifecycle from data processing to production and governance, empowering companies to quickly transform data into actionable insights.

Migrations.ml

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Migrations.ml seeks to collect known data sets and use Machine Learning to train models to generate analytics. The ability to gather and analyze large sets of data and train models leads to a credit analysis machine that is always on and can work from a wider and deeper pool of data than is humanly possible. Using a subscription enterprise license model, the Migrations.ml's output can be integrated with clients' existing processes, or evaluated separately, giving clients the discretion to use the data only as a 'signal' that can drive their own research processes. Its thin web-based client and use solely of public data means that the only 'installation' necessary is to obtain a login and password: there is no need for installation on client servers, no proprietary data security concerns, and no professional services feeds.

Geolumina

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

Twelve Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Twelve Labs transforms video into machine-consumable form.

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.

Sensai Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The world’s leading companies generate more than a quarter of their annual revenue and profits from new product launches. In the US each year, however, over $8Bn in revenue is not captured, because companies manufacturing operations can’t respond quickly enough, when new products take off and demand exceeds expectations. At Sensai Analytics, we are passionate about making manufacturing more sustainable using AI. Building on our team’s experience at MIT developing new machine learning methods that require less training data, we are working to fill the massive market need for better forecasting for new product introductions, provided in a no-code, easy to use product. We have developed a demand forecasting engine that learns from all types of data sources from within and outside a company and are now building and testing this product with a number of early partners. Sensai Analytics is part of Schneider Electric’s Bold Ideas Challenge 2020 and the Stanley Black & Decker + Techstars accelerator.

UNPACKING

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Learning management platform for social change.

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.

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.

Tune AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tune AI is a cloud-based platform designed to assist data science teams, developers, and students in managing and collaborating on deep learning projects. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Tune AI simplifies the process of setting up AI projects, allowing users to begin their work without the need for prior experience or extensive setup time. The platform offers a user-friendly interface that facilitates seamless integration and enhances project completion rates and engagement. With over a thousand users relying on its services each month, Tune AI aims to streamline the process of developing AI solutions through a single, accessible workbench.

LivNao Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2020
LivNao Technologies leverages deep learning to detect changes in mental health before it affects performance and productivity. Their deep learning model can detect deviation before performance is affected by collecting data passively. When they have detected a change in mental health, they nudge individuals with an intervention based on their health plan. LivNao is committed to creating a healthier, happier, and more productive world, in the way they know best using data. LivNao is also 100% HIPAA-compliant. It was based in Vancouver, Canada.

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.

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.

Zoee

Funding Round in 2020
Zoee is a social e-learning platform developed by SoleLife, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The platform is designed for professional coaches and their clients, facilitating connections and enhancing skill acquisition and industry knowledge. By leveraging business automation and intelligent matching, Zoee assists the 25 million individuals seeking personal coaching to find suitable coaches while helping coaches reduce churn, increase revenue, and improve client success and retention. This comprehensive approach aims to create a more efficient coaching experience for both parties on a single platform.

Lingco LLC

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Lingco LLC is a language-learning platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan. The company develops tools for instructors to enhance the language learning experience through its adaptive technology. Its platform, Lingco Classroom, utilizes artificial intelligence to assess students’ existing language proficiency quickly, allowing for personalized learning experiences. By analyzing initial assessments, the platform identifies students' strengths and weaknesses in vocabulary and grammar, enabling instructors to tailor their teaching strategies accordingly. Additionally, it provides real-time insights into student performance and utilizes machine learning to recommend specific activities and content for instructors to assign, ultimately helping students achieve fluency.

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.

Kintsugi

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Kintsugi utilizes machine learning and voice biomarkers to detect clinical depression and anxiety, providing innovative talk therapy software to users in over 250 cities worldwide. By analyzing short clips of free-form speech, the company has developed a mental healthcare infrastructure that identifies signs of these conditions, thereby assisting medical practitioners in addressing gaps in mental health care. Kintsugi has amassed the world's largest longitudinal, annotated voice data set for this purpose, resulting in the creation of a clinical-grade voice biomarker diagnostic, which is currently pending patent and FDA approval. This technology aims to measure the severity of depression and anxiety in real-time, offering a more effective approach to mental health assessment and intervention.

Datance

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Datance is an AI-powered data management and analysis platform suite that provides enterprise with a complete fully-managed data management infrastructure. Code-free and data analyst friendly, Datance provides coverage for automated data acquisition, treatment, business logic ruling, and specific department based recipes that handles behavioral recognition, feature extraction, classification, and many more.

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.

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.

WeavAir

Seed Round in 2020
advanced sensors & predictive analytics solution

EdSights

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

ThinkDeep AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
In manufacturing, manual inspection of defects is time-consuming and attention-draining. Deepflow empowers factories to automate defects inspection with Machine Vision (Artificial Intelligence) and improve the accuracy and speed of quality control. - Increase productivity: Automate repetitive, attention-draining defects inspection and labeling tasks. - Improve explainability: Spot defects with pixel-accuracy thanks to cutting-edge Machine Vision technology. - Guarantee traceability: Automatically track and log all spotted defects for continuous auditability.

QuantShip

Pre Seed Round in 2020
QuantShip helps shipping companies make superior commercial decisions through proprietary machine learning algorithms. The company provides Predictive analytics solutions leveraging Machine Learning and AI for stakeholders of the maritime industry. QuantShip also provides AI-powered predictive analytics for shipping companies to deliver actionable and tailored intelligence, so important decisions are data-driven rather than sentiment driven. Quantship's vision is to transform the fundamental decision-making process in the maritime industry from slow sentiment-driven to efficient data-driven decision making. QuantShip was founded in 2019 and is based in Singapore.

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.

PeakMetrics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PeakMetrics delivers insights to create actionable, real-time predictions of how messages will develop and spread online. We do this by aggregating both social and traditional media and then utilizing machine learning to extract behavioral trends from the millions of unstructured, cross-channel datasets. PeakMetric’s is battle-tested on some of the most complex media issues today – from crisis management situations to combating state-sponsored disinformation. Our clients include some of the world’s largest brands, advertising and government agencies.

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.

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.

Monitaur

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Monitaur, Inc. is a software company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that focuses on enhancing auditability, transparency, and governance for organizations utilizing machine learning in regulated environments. Founded in 2019, Monitaur offers a machine learning assurance platform that addresses the unique needs of companies employing AI for critical decision-making processes. The platform provides comprehensive logging and monitoring of machine learning models, ensuring that every decision is recorded and easily accessible for examination. By employing advanced features such as bias detection, fairness assessment, and anomaly monitoring, Monitaur enables its clients to establish trust and confidence in their machine learning systems, ultimately facilitating compliance in industries where decision transparency is paramount.

Triditive

Seed Round in 2020
Triditive specializes in an innovative 3D printing platform that leverages machine learning to facilitate automated mass production. Their flagship technology, AMCELL®, allows for fully automated and scalable manufacturing processes, enabling on-demand production with high capacity while minimizing defects in real-time through advanced robotics. The platform is designed to transition from prototyping to the mass production of fully functional finished products. It operates as a fully automated system, controlled by software that enables users to manage, execute, and monitor work orders remotely from any device. This capability allows organizations to efficiently handle urgent requests and reduce machine downtime, thereby optimizing the overall production process.

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.

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.

Spliqs Intelligent Media

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

Lightmass Dynamics

Seed Round in 2019
Lightmass Dynamics focuses on creating a foundation for simulation through advanced visualization software. The company integrates deep learning with ray tracing to develop methods for sampling extensive datasets, which helps simplify the complexities of physics. This innovative approach allows users to manipulate physical forces effectively, without the need for specialized hardware architectures. By combining these technologies, Lightmass Dynamics aims to enhance real-time three-dimensional graphics and simulation capabilities.

MorphL

Pre Seed Round in 2019
MorphL helps mid-size e-commerce companies that grapple with AI adoption, by lowering the barrier to integrating AI-based solutions. MorphL consists of a suite of predictive models that are fully automated, that can be used across the enterprise, across the full customer journey and are platform agnostic. MorphL is funded via Techstars Montreal AI, Google DNI, and European Data Incubator.

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.

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.

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.

Tuffel Corporation

Pre Seed Round in 2019
They revolutionize how they build and use household power tools using the latest and greatest technologies in Machine Learning and IoT.As builders, we were often left wondering why there is a big mismatch between the technologies that go into building today’s power tools versus the technologies that go into building many, many IoT devices that exist today. Most power tools were invented over multiple decades, or even more than a century, ago, and their designs and functions have not changed much since then. This means that many functions that could easily be improved with modern technologies have not been improved. For example, many tools do not provide enough, if any, monitoring insights, leaving the users to only guess when the tools need repairs or when they will stop functioning.

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.

SoundTrack AI Inc.

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

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.

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.

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.

Track Tennis

Pre Seed Round in 2019
They install/connect to a basic CCTV camera + put up a poster that lets players check in. Their ML automates a judge (scoring), coach (suggestions to improve), photographer (best outtakes to share on social media) and rater (gives a rating relative to other players).

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.

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.

EdSights

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

SmileML Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
SmileML, Inc. designs and develops emotion recognition software. It offers user research software that analyzes user emotion in interview videos, transcribes speech, and allows to share insight with collaborative tools. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

AdaptiLab

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AdaptiLab is a B2B, SaaS, machine learning, and recruiting company. It accelerates companies' machine learning and data science talent acquisition with ai-driven screening, sourcing, and up-skilling products.

VAUX

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

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

Seldon

Seed Round in 2019
Seldon Technologies Ltd. is a company based in Shoreditch, United Kingdom, that specializes in open-source machine learning deployment. Founded in 2014, Seldon offers a platform called Seldon Deploy, which facilitates the transition from research and development to production for machine learning engineering teams, achieving efficiency gains of up to 84%. The platform provides essential features such as audit trails, compliance approvals, and detailed model explanations. Seldon's open-source projects are recognized for their excellence in model serving, monitoring, and explanations, with over 2.5 million installations and 250,000 models deployed. The company serves a diverse clientele, including major enterprises in technology, pharmaceuticals, automotive, finance, and retail, and its solutions are integrated with leading machine learning platforms from companies like Google and Red Hat. Seldon has also garnered recognition as a "Cool Vendor" in AI Core technologies by Gartner in 2020.

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.

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.

Applica

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Applica.ai Ltd develops artificial intelligence solutions that automates business processes that require comprehension of large volumes of text. It offers Applica, an artificial intelligence based solution that helps reduce the human workforce effort, shorten document turnover, and cut down on human error. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Axiom.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Axiom is an AI browser assistant that lets you automate business processes, and share them with others on a ‘process app-store’ It does two things: -It can guide you through a business process -Or it can automate that process It does this through ‘Robotic Process Automation’. RPA is the ability to record user inputs and replay them. Many business processes involve workflow-driven work with web-apps; like setting up a Salesforce campaign, or AWS Firewall. Axiom can guide or automate those steps. If you’re an expert or consultant, you can code-ify your expertise in Axiom, to guide others on the app-store. Axiom’s AI assistant also observes user behaviour, and makes context-sensitive suggestions as they work, so they can automate things they didn’t know was possible.

FairFrame - acquired by ARC

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Leveraging machine learning, natural language processing and decades of research into diversity in organizations, FairFrame shines a light on unconscious bias.

Axel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Axel is an AI-powered virtual assistant makes your onboardings simple and successful.

Intelistyle

Pre 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.

Axel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Axel is an AI-powered virtual assistant makes your onboardings simple and successful.

Humanising Autonomy

Seed Round in 2018
Humanising Autonomy is a predictive AI company focused on enhancing the interaction between vehicles and people across various environments. The company develops behavior artificial intelligence software that integrates behavioral psychology, computer vision, and large language models to predict human decision-making. Its platform analyzes camera data in real-time to interpret and forecast the behavior of pedestrians, passengers, and vehicles. This capability supports automated decision-making processes, improving driver alerts and vehicle motion response. By providing an end-to-end software solution for dashcam manufacturers, Humanising Autonomy aims to establish a global standard for safety and efficiency in vehicle operations.

Speeko

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Automated voice analytics and digital communication coaching

42Maru

Pre Seed Round in 2018
42Maru, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Seoul, South Korea, specializes in developing advanced search engine technology tailored for artificial intelligence applications. The company has created a deep learning-based question-answering system designed to accurately understand user intent and deliver precise answers. With a focus on various sectors, including connected cars, smart speakers, and chatbots, 42Maru leverages its expertise in information retrieval, machine reading comprehension, and natural language processing to enhance user interactions. The company aims to capitalize on the growing shift from traditional web searches to more intuitive question-answering systems, anticipating significant market growth in the coming years. Its business strategy encompasses B2C initiatives through partnerships with major telecommunications companies in Korea and plans for global expansion with multilingual support. With a strong team led by a seasoned CEO who has over 20 years of experience in the search engine industry, 42Maru is positioned to lead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Trapica

Seed Round in 2018
Trapica Ltd. develops artificial intelligence algorithms that allows marketing campaigns on social networks to reach the right audiences at the right time. It provides feature that include real time bidding, automated machine learning, behavioral prediction powered by AI, marketing optimization, and target audience. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Bellwethr

Pre Seed Round in 2018
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.

DeepHow

Pre Seed Round in 2018
DeepHow develops an AI-powered learning platform for manufacturing, service, and repair. Wei-Liang Kao, Patrik Matos da Silva, and Samuel Zheng founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in New York City.

Let's Enhance

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2017, Let’s Enhance is an online platform that gives power to businesses and graphic specialists to enlarge and improve images with the help of neural networks.

4Degrees

Seed Round in 2018
4Degrees helps professionals build better relationships, and democratize access to social capital - driven by machine learning. The company envisions to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships. Its platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.

Uhura Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2018
We help financial institutions speed up review and decision-making processes significantly by using an AI platform that streamlines the process of analyzing and drafting contracts and agreements. We use cutting-edge AI technologies such as vision processing to read contracts and natural language processing to understand the meaning. We are focused on providing contract intelligence for financial services, developing AI specifically suited for the financial contracts and agreements.

LocateAI

Venture Round in 2018
LocateAI is using geospatial data and machine learning to transform the antiquated, $4T real estate industry. Founded by Stanford computer scientists, the team is building a predictive analytical platform that generates unique insights on how to make smarter and faster transactions. Our forecasts are custom-tailored and backed by millions of data points. Our core technologies include data mining, machine learning, and data visualization.

NeuroApplied

Pre Seed Round in 2018
NeuroApplied offers customer-focused marketing based on the study of the customers’ collective subconscious. The company applies machine-learning analytics, in combination with neural-networks computing, to online picture games in order to provide its clients with useful data collected from the associative subconscious of their customers. Its SaaS-based platform provides an intuitive dashboard for insights that is nonintrusive, and visually stimulating for respondents. NeuroApplied was founded by Lior Moyal, Elhanan Meirovithz, and Inna Schneiderman in June 2016.