New and recently funded AI Startups
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Country: Canada | Funding: $12.3M
Peripheral Labs is incorporating spatial intelligence into live sports broadcasts. Its technology generates volumetric video that allows users to view the game from multiple angles, creating an immersive experience. The system reduces the number of cameras from over 100 to just 32 standard ones, helping to reduce costs and operational expenses. It can allow broadcasters and fans to explore new ways to control their viewing experience using photorealistic 3D reconstruction technology. For example, if fans want to track only the player with the ball, they can do so. They can also freeze the action to see different angles of a foul or critical moment. The system also measures player biomechanics and generates statistics for teams and leagues using a proprietary set of sensors, similar to those in self-driving cars that capture the scene with depth.
Peripheral Labs is incorporating spatial intelligence into live sports broadcasts. Its technology generates volumetric video that allows users to view the game from multiple angles, creating an immersive experience. The system reduces the number of cameras from over 100 to just 32 standard ones, helping to reduce costs and operational expenses. It can allow broadcasters and fans to explore new ways to control their viewing experience using photorealistic 3D reconstruction technology. For example, if fans want to track only the player with the ball, they can do so. They can also freeze the action to see different angles of a foul or critical moment. The system also measures player biomechanics and generates statistics for teams and leagues using a proprietary set of sensors, similar to those in self-driving cars that capture the scene with depth.
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Country: USA | Funding: $655M
Also develops autonomous driving technology for commercial delivery robots quad TM-Q.
Also develops autonomous driving technology for commercial delivery robots quad TM-Q.
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Country: USA | Funding: $41.6M
Micro1 helps AI development companies find and manage contractors for data labeling and training. Micro1 partners with leading AI labs, including Microsoft, who are seeking to improve large-scale language models using post-training and reinforcement learning. The company also helps evaluate enterprise AI agents for internal workflows, operations support, finance and industry-specific tasks - with the help of subject-matter experts. Micro1 also enables robotics pre-training, which requires high-quality, human-generated demonstrations of everyday physical tasks. It's building the world's largest robotics pre-training dataset by collecting demonstrations from hundreds of generalists who record interactions with objects in their homes.
Micro1 helps AI development companies find and manage contractors for data labeling and training. Micro1 partners with leading AI labs, including Microsoft, who are seeking to improve large-scale language models using post-training and reinforcement learning. The company also helps evaluate enterprise AI agents for internal workflows, operations support, finance and industry-specific tasks - with the help of subject-matter experts. Micro1 also enables robotics pre-training, which requires high-quality, human-generated demonstrations of everyday physical tasks. It's building the world's largest robotics pre-training dataset by collecting demonstrations from hundreds of generalists who record interactions with objects in their homes.
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Country: Kazakhstan | Funding: $538M
Higgsfield is developing a service that enables consumers, creators, and social media teams to create and edit AI-powered videos. According to the company, the product is primarily used by professional social media marketers, which is "a key sign that the platform's adoption has expanded beyond random content creation." Its users also share numerous projects focused on fashion and Hollywood-style storytelling. The startup's strategy is based not on direct competition with giants like OpenAI, but on integrating and adapting existing AI models to solve specific business problems. The platform specializes in creating marketing video content, maintaining consistency across characters and branding thanks to its proprietary "reasoning engine."
Higgsfield is developing a service that enables consumers, creators, and social media teams to create and edit AI-powered videos. According to the company, the product is primarily used by professional social media marketers, which is "a key sign that the platform's adoption has expanded beyond random content creation." Its users also share numerous projects focused on fashion and Hollywood-style storytelling. The startup's strategy is based not on direct competition with giants like OpenAI, but on integrating and adapting existing AI models to solve specific business problems. The platform specializes in creating marketing video content, maintaining consistency across characters and branding thanks to its proprietary "reasoning engine."
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.8B
Groq creates hardware AI accelerators for large language models that improve performance and reduce power consumption compared to classic GPU accelerators. It produces a Language Processing Unit (LPU) chip that uses exclusively on-chip SRAM memory (without external DRAM/HBM modules), which requires installing multiple chips for scalable payloads. Its architecture minimizes elements associated with unpredictable behavior (branch prediction, caches, etc.). Groq enables best performance for small and medium batch/task sizes, especially if the model fits into their configuration. The software-defined, single-core architecture removes traditional software complexity while continuous, token-based execution delivers consistent performance without tradeoffs. Groq licenses its technology to NVidia. The company also provides its cloud AI inference platform built for developers - available in public, private, or co-cloud instances.
Groq creates hardware AI accelerators for large language models that improve performance and reduce power consumption compared to classic GPU accelerators. It produces a Language Processing Unit (LPU) chip that uses exclusively on-chip SRAM memory (without external DRAM/HBM modules), which requires installing multiple chips for scalable payloads. Its architecture minimizes elements associated with unpredictable behavior (branch prediction, caches, etc.). Groq enables best performance for small and medium batch/task sizes, especially if the model fits into their configuration. The software-defined, single-core architecture removes traditional software complexity while continuous, token-based execution delivers consistent performance without tradeoffs. Groq licenses its technology to NVidia. The company also provides its cloud AI inference platform built for developers - available in public, private, or co-cloud instances.
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Country: USA | Funding: $30M
Encore AI turns customer conversations into revenue-generating AI agents for high-value interactions like loans and insurance. The company’s platform collects call recordings, emails, and text messages, and connects that info with CRM systems. It then divides the customer interactions into stages and tries to find out which parts of a conversation helped move the process along, and which failed. This lets Encore’s agents learn what works best for any particular client or interaction, as different employees may be either more or less effective at different points during a sales or customer success process.
Encore AI turns customer conversations into revenue-generating AI agents for high-value interactions like loans and insurance. The company’s platform collects call recordings, emails, and text messages, and connects that info with CRM systems. It then divides the customer interactions into stages and tries to find out which parts of a conversation helped move the process along, and which failed. This lets Encore’s agents learn what works best for any particular client or interaction, as different employees may be either more or less effective at different points during a sales or customer success process.
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Country: USA | Funding: $13M
Pangram develops highly accurate technology to identify AI-generated content.
Pangram develops highly accurate technology to identify AI-generated content.
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Country: Sweden | Funding: $952.5M
Lovable develops a vibe coding platform that allows users to build websites and apps from text prompts, including the UI/frontend (often using the popular UX coding tool React) and database connectivity like Supabase. Chat mode helps you think through problems, debug errors, and plan your product directly within Lovable. Agent mode automates tasks such as editing code after reading project files or debugging. Lovable integrates shared connectors, personal connectors (MCP servers), and any API to add capabilities to deployed apps, provide context during app creation and securely call custom or third-party APIs. The service charges a per-use model: the more tasks requested from chat/agent, the more credits are deducted from the account. The company's clients include large software companies such as Klarna, Uber and Zendesk.
Lovable develops a vibe coding platform that allows users to build websites and apps from text prompts, including the UI/frontend (often using the popular UX coding tool React) and database connectivity like Supabase. Chat mode helps you think through problems, debug errors, and plan your product directly within Lovable. Agent mode automates tasks such as editing code after reading project files or debugging. Lovable integrates shared connectors, personal connectors (MCP servers), and any API to add capabilities to deployed apps, provide context during app creation and securely call custom or third-party APIs. The service charges a per-use model: the more tasks requested from chat/agent, the more credits are deducted from the account. The company's clients include large software companies such as Klarna, Uber and Zendesk.
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Country: Australia | Funding: $3M
Enrola provides AI sales agents that engage leads through personalized SMS conversations with every lead you've already paid for - qualifying, nurturing and closing deals around the clock.
Enrola provides AI sales agents that engage leads through personalized SMS conversations with every lead you've already paid for - qualifying, nurturing and closing deals around the clock.
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Country: UK | Funding: $104M
Inforcer develops Shadow AI detection platform to help organizations detect when employees are using unauthorized AI tools on company devices, and launching a threat detection and response tool to catch cybersecurity risks as they happen.
Inforcer develops Shadow AI detection platform to help organizations detect when employees are using unauthorized AI tools on company devices, and launching a threat detection and response tool to catch cybersecurity risks as they happen.
