Artificial Intelligence

SynthBee: $20 Million (Seed) Raised For Scaling Its Computing Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 17, 2024

SynthBee, a company building a scalable and reliable computing intelligence platform to amplify and accelerate human innovation, announced it has secured $20 million in seed funding to expand the company and build out the team around its proprietary computing intelligence platform. The funding was provided by Crosspoint Capital Partners.

Omnea: Procurement Platform Company Raises $20 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 17, 2024

Omnea - an AI-based procurement orchestration and supplier risk management platform - announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding to make procurement painless and give companies greater control over their spend. Accel led the funding round, with participation from existing investors First Round Capital and Point Nine, who led the previously unannounced $5 million seed round.

OroraTech: $27.3 Million (Series B) Closed To Advance Predictive AI In Wildfire Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 17, 2024

OroraTech, a leader in wildfire intelligence, announced closing its $27.3 million Series B funding round led by Korys, the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), and long-standing investor Bayern Kapital. This funding round will advance the next phase of OroraTech’s strategic growth, with the company further expanding key global markets and enhancing its predictive AI capabilities and orbital sensor network. Through predictive algorithm data fed by their thermal satellite network, OroraTech enables companies, organizations, and fire agencies to actively respond to the global wildfire crisis, reducing damage and saving lives.

Valory: Interview With CEO David Minarsch About Co-Owned AI Systems And Expanding The Olas Ecosystem

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 17, 2024

David Minarsch is known as an expert in the fields of Applied Game Theory and Multi-Agent Systems, holding a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. And his work includes the creation of the first multi-agent system framework with native support for distributed ledger technologies and crypto-native payments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed David Minarsch to learn more about Valory and the Olas ecosystem.

Omi: Interview With Co-Founder Joan Cabezas About The AI Wearables Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 16, 2024

Omi is a company that has developed AI wearables built to transform conversation management. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Omi co-founder Joan Cabezas to learn more about the company.

Noetica AI: $22 Million (Series A) Raised To Advance AI-Based Platform For Benchmarking Deal Terms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2024

Noetica AI, an AI-based software platform for benchmarking deal terms, announced $22 million in Series A funding as it continues to deliver best-in-class capital markets insights to top law firms and financial institutions. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Thompson Reuters Ventures, Bling Capital, Flybridge Capital, Company Ventures, and TheLegalTech Fund.

Relyance AI: $32 Million (Series B) Raised For Safeguarding AI Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2024

Relyance AI, a leading AI-based data governance platform that provides complete visibility and control over enterprise-wide data, announced a $32.1 million Series B funding round to scale operations and meet the needs of the exploding use of AI in the enterprise. Thomvest Ventures led the round. And M12 (Microsoft Ventures Fund) also participated in addition to Cheyenne Ventures and existing investors Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures.

Proxima: Interview With Founder And CEO Alex Song About The Data Intelligence Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2024

Proxima is a data intelligence platform that uses AI to improve marketing efficiency. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Proxima Founder and CEO Alex Song to learn more about the company.

Gate Ventures, Movement Labs, And Boon Ventures: $20 Million Fund Launched For Web3 Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2024

Gate Ventures (a global venture capital firm specializing in blockchain), Movement Labs (a leader in Move-based blockchain technology), and Boon Ventures (an emerging tech startup investor), announced the establishment of a $20 million fund designed to transform the Web3 space. This alliance will invest in cutting-edge projects and accelerate the development of Move-based blockchain technologies.

Fisent: Interview With Founder & CEO Adrian Murray About The Applied GenAI Process Automation Solutions Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2024

Fisent Technologies is a company that is transforming how business is performed by enabling the utilization of GenAI models for the automation of common business processes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Fisent Technologies founder and CEO Adrian Murray to learn more about the company.

Entegria Systems: Interview With Co-Founder & CTO Tony Tancredi About The Secure Data Workflow Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2024

Entegria Systems is a company that has built a secure data workflow platform that has the latest encryption, workflow, and cloud technologies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Entegria Systems co-founder and CTO Tony Tancredi to learn more about the company.

ThinkLabs: Interview With Founder & CEO Josh Wong About The AI Deployment Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2024

ThinkLabs AI is a specialized AI development and deployment company. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ThinkLabs AI founder and CEO Josh Wong to learn more about the company.

DataKrypto: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Ravi Srivatsav About Data Privacy As A Human Right

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2024

DataKrypto, the first and only fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solution for protecting all data types in real-time throughout their lifecycle, including data in use, is a data protection software company launched as a spin-off of data retention leader DRSlab. DataKrypto’s advanced data encryption solutions protect data throughout its lifecycle. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DataKrypto co-founder and CEO Ravi Srivatsav to learn more about the company.

Portkey: Interview With Co-Founder Rohit Agarwal About The GenAI Developer Tooling Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2024

Portkey is building the critical tooling every AI team needs to ship reliable, cost-efficient, and performant LLM apps. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Portkey co-founder Rohit Agarwal to learn more about the company.

Prodoscore: Interview With CEO Sam Naficy About The Data Intelligence Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2024

Prodoscore is an AI-based and employee-centric data intelligence solution dedicated to making teams more successful. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Prodoscore CEO Sam Naficy to learn more about the company. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Prodoscore CEO Sam Naficy to learn more about the company.

Waymark: Interview With CEO Alex Persky-Stern About The AI Video Creator Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 10, 2024

Waymark is a breakthrough AI production platform that uses a single prompt to create stunning personalized commercials and spec spots in minutes without creative skills needed. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Waymark CEO Alex Persky-Stern to learn more about the company.

Moselle: C$2.1 Million (Seed) Raised For Making Automated Inventory Management Accessible

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 10, 2024

Moselle, an AI-based inventory planner and procurement manager for small- and mid-sized e-commerce brands, announced that it closed a C$2.1 million seed round. This round was led by AQC Capital and MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, with participation from True, Rebellion Ventures, Highline Beta, Top Knot Ventures, and Singh Capital.

Kore.ai: Interview With Founder & CEO Raj Koneru About The Conversational and Generative AI Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 10, 2024

Kore.ai is one of the fastest-growing AI companies globally and has a track record of delivering generative and conversational AI platforms and solutions responsibly and safely. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kore.ai founder and CEO Raj Koneru to learn more about the company.

EvenUp: $135 Million (Series D) Raised At Over $1 Billion Valuation And New Products Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2024

EvenUp - a market leader in personal injury AI and document generation - announced it raised a $135 million Series D funding round and significantly expanded its AI workflow and product suite. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, which also included Premji Invest, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, SignalFire, and B Capital Group.

Billables AI: Timekeeping Solution Raises $3.9 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2024

Billables AI, an AI-based platform for professional service providers that streamlines operations with its flagship AI-powered timekeeping solution, announced it has raised $3.9 million in seed funding led by Wing VC with participation from F7, SignalFire, Darkmode, Alumni Ventures and AI leaders and industry veterans, including angel investors from Google, Stanford, SambaNova and more. This funding round will go toward investing in advanced ML to further personalize time reports and ultimately build additional productivity tools that help all professional service providers.

Zuper: Interview With CEO Anand Subbaraj About The Company’s Field Service Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2024

Zuper is a company that empowers fast-growing service businesses to scale and modernize their field operations with the industry's most comprehensive, flexible, and customizable field service management solution. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Zuper CEO Anand Subbaraj to learn more about the company.

Interview With Professor Linda Travis Macomber About AI In Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2024

Professor Linda Travis Macomber of National University is an exceptional education leader for AI in healthcare. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Professor Macomber to learn more about her background.

TensorWave: $43 Million In SAFE Funding Raised For Advancing AI Computing Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2024

AI GPU cloud platform company TensorWave announced the closing of a $43 million SAFE funding round. This funding round - which was led by Nexus VP, marks the largest SAFE funding for any Nevada-based startup so far. And other investors in this round include Maverick Capital, Translink Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, StartupNV, and AMD Ventures.

Distributional: Modern Enterprise Platform Company Raises $19 Million (Series A)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2024

Distributional, a modern enterprise platform for AI testing, announced that it has raised $19 million in Series A funding led by Two Sigma Ventures with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Operator Collective, Oregon Venture Fund, Essence VC, Alumni Ventures and dozens of angel investors. And the new funding round brings Distributional’s total capital raised to $30 million less than one year since its incorporation.

Paren: Data Insights Company Secures $3 Million (Seed)

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2024

Paren—a software platform powering electric mobility with unified data insights—announced that it has raised $3 million in its first financing round. Base10 Partners led the funding round. Founders Network Fund and Luc Vincent (founder of Google Street View and Lyft 5) also participated in the round. Paren will use the funding to scale its current data platform and build new services.

AirOps: $15.5 Million (Series A) Raised To Help Marketers Scale AI Growth Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2024

AirOps, a company helping marketers build and scale AI growth workflows, announced it has raised $15.5 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Unusual VC, with participation from Wing VC, Founder Collective, XFund, Alt Capital, Lauryn Motamedi, David Rogier, and JD Ross.

Voxel51 Reveals FiftyOne Open Source 1.0 To Accelerate Visual AI Applications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2024

Voxel51 - a company helping organizations make visual AI a reality—announced the milestone release of version 1.0 of open-source FiftyOne. FiftyOne Open Source offers the foundation for Voxel51’s commercial solution, FiftyOne Teams, easing and streamlining the development of robust and reliable visual AI applications.

Helios AI: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Francisco Martin-Rayo About CommodiTrack

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 7, 2024

Helios AI is a leading artificial intelligence company that predicts soft commodity prices and agricultural supply disruptions. The company sees daily and historical coverage for 85 countries and 50+ commodities. Its platform analyzes billions of signals in real-time to empower organizations to be one step ahead of the market. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Helios AI co-founder and CEO Francisco Martin-Rayo to learn more about the company.

Standard AI: Interview With CTO David Woollard About The Retail Insights Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 7, 2024

Standard AI is a company that is equipping brick-and-mortar stores and their suppliers with the data they need to solve the hardest problems in physical retail: unlocking insights with unparalleled fidelity and precision about people, products, and interactions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Standard AI CTO David Woollard to learn more about the company.

Baker Tilly Buying Robotic Process Automation Company Alirrium

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 7, 2024

Leading advisory, tax, and assurance company Baker Tilly is expanding its advanced technology capabilities by acquiring Alirrium, a fast-growing leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) advisory and implementation services. Effective November 1, the move strengthens Baker Tilly’s capabilities in RPA, AI/ML to better support businesses in modernizing their operations and improving their competitive edge.