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A quick highlight
Amount: $56.5M ๐
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: March Capital
Essential AI's mission centers on building partnerships between humans and computers.
The company aims to develop AI products that enhance productivity by automating time-consuming and monotonous workflows. Their approach involves using large language models (LLMs) that, with human feedback and technical advancements, can empower users to tackle increasingly complex tasks and develop critical skills, thereby augmenting the capabilities of organizations in society.
Amount: $54.3M ๐
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital
Tacto's AI software streamlines procurement workflows, ensuring compliant and sustainable supply chains and efficient material sourcing.
It automates manual tasks, including those for regulatory compliance, and identifies cost-saving potentials.
Amount: $10M ๐
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: General Catalyst
Chalk offers a data platform that powers machine learning and generative AI.
The platform allows data teams to define features and dependencies using Python in various environments (online, streaming, and batch). It compiles these definitions into parallel pipelines running on a Rust-based engine. This approach ensures consistency between training sets for data scientists and live feature values for models, reducing development time.
Amount: $6M ๐
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Lachy Groom
Hyperplane's mission revolves around empowering banks to use their first-party data more effectively.
They aim to enhance personalized customer experiences by enabling banks to leverage their data for more tailored services. Their product is a sophisticated data intelligence layer, which provides real-time APIs. These APIs allow banks to implement personalized models, enabling a more customized and responsive banking experience for their customers. This approach not only improves customer satisfaction but also helps banks in better data utilization and service optimization.
Amount: $6M ๐
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Noetica's mission is to revolutionize the corporate debt market by integrating AI-driven data and insights.
Their product is an AI-powered software platform designed to benchmark corporate debt transactions. This platform aims to provide deep analytical insights into debt issuances and investments, enabling professionals in the field to make more informed decisions.
Amount: $5.1M ๐
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Greylock
Braintrust Data offers a toolkit that allows developers to run comprehensive evaluations on AI models.
This tool aids in refining AI-powered products, ensuring they meet high standards of functionality and performance. The focus is on streamlining the testing and improvement processes for enterprise AI applications, making it easier for developers to deliver optimized AI solutions.
Other Rounds ๐ค
nuvo raises a $3.27M Seed - an AI-Powered Import Solutions for CSV & Excel Data.
Myth AI raises a $1.5M Seed - an Al-powered web-based design tool.
Gentrace raises a $0.25M Angel Round - Evaluate generative AI in test and production.
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โ Chief AI Officer (e/acc) (@chiefaioffice)
7:04 PM โข Dec 10, 2023
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