New and recently funded AI Startups
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Country: USA | Funding: $22M
Smallest.ai builds the full-stack voice AI infrastructure behind real-time, human-like enterprise voice agents. The company wants to make speaking to an AI agent indistinguishable from talking to a human. To do so, it’s developing a small voice model designed to mimic how humans process information by listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. The startup’s model serves as a real-time intelligence layer that enables natural customer conversations on specific topics, with virtually zero response lag. But if the model encounters a subject outside its limited knowledge base, Smallest.ai hands off the query to a large foundational model
Smallest.ai builds the full-stack voice AI infrastructure behind real-time, human-like enterprise voice agents. The company wants to make speaking to an AI agent indistinguishable from talking to a human. To do so, it’s developing a small voice model designed to mimic how humans process information by listening, thinking, and speaking simultaneously. The startup’s model serves as a real-time intelligence layer that enables natural customer conversations on specific topics, with virtually zero response lag. But if the model encounters a subject outside its limited knowledge base, Smallest.ai hands off the query to a large foundational model
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Country: USA | Funding: $8M
Tera AI provides superhuman spatial reasoning and visual navigation for robots
Tera AI provides superhuman spatial reasoning and visual navigation for robots
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Country: UK | Funding: $3.5M
Agentic Marketing Technologies builds an Autonomous Marketing Team powered by AI agents.
Agentic Marketing Technologies builds an Autonomous Marketing Team powered by AI agents.
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Country: USA | Funding: $925.4M
Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically for running transformer models.
Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically for running transformer models.
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Country: USA | Funding: $15M
Infinity is building software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. It's s CUDA-alternative kernel software that works with any type of chip, like SRAM, GPUs, phone chips, and Systolic Arrays. Infinity is also building a universal inference library to run on all chips, allowing these chips to automate replicating state-of-the-art research results.
Infinity is building software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. It's s CUDA-alternative kernel software that works with any type of chip, like SRAM, GPUs, phone chips, and Systolic Arrays. Infinity is also building a universal inference library to run on all chips, allowing these chips to automate replicating state-of-the-art research results.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $3.3B
Helsing develops hardware and software platform for defense. It makes drones and underwater surveillance weapons and builds artificial intelligence and autonomous software to power these military applications. Its HX-2 small AI strike drones are being supplied to the Ukrainian army. Its large UAV CA-1 Europa is an autonomous fighter jet in the three-to-five ton class is combining the Centaur AI software and mission stack with Grob's proven capability in aircraft design and manufacturing. And its underwater autonomous drone SG-1 + Lura is capable of discreetly patrolling in a swarm or holding position on the seabed, the glider operates at depth and throughout the water column.
Helsing develops hardware and software platform for defense. It makes drones and underwater surveillance weapons and builds artificial intelligence and autonomous software to power these military applications. Its HX-2 small AI strike drones are being supplied to the Ukrainian army. Its large UAV CA-1 Europa is an autonomous fighter jet in the three-to-five ton class is combining the Centaur AI software and mission stack with Grob's proven capability in aircraft design and manufacturing. And its underwater autonomous drone SG-1 + Lura is capable of discreetly patrolling in a swarm or holding position on the seabed, the glider operates at depth and throughout the water column.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $53M
Hemispheric develops AI foundation model trained to decode non-invasive brain activity with breakthrough accuracy and translate it into actionable insights for clinicians and researchers. The brain signals are obtained through a lightweight dry EEG headset a patient wears on their head. For 15 minutes the individual interacts with an app on a tablet or phone while the system captures the individual's brain wave activity. The model then generates objective results for clinicians to use for diagnosis and to determine the most effective treatment that matches the patient's brain profile.
Hemispheric develops AI foundation model trained to decode non-invasive brain activity with breakthrough accuracy and translate it into actionable insights for clinicians and researchers. The brain signals are obtained through a lightweight dry EEG headset a patient wears on their head. For 15 minutes the individual interacts with an app on a tablet or phone while the system captures the individual's brain wave activity. The model then generates objective results for clinicians to use for diagnosis and to determine the most effective treatment that matches the patient's brain profile.
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Country: USA | Funding: $260M
Norm has built an AI-native law firm, called Norm Law, that uses the company’s own AI agents, employs human attorneys to supervise them, and offers legal services to enterprise clients. It’s also building AI agents that can supervise other AI agents as they go about their tasks. The company charges based on outcomes rather than billing its clients hourly, in contrast to the rest of the industry.
Norm has built an AI-native law firm, called Norm Law, that uses the company’s own AI agents, employs human attorneys to supervise them, and offers legal services to enterprise clients. It’s also building AI agents that can supervise other AI agents as they go about their tasks. The company charges based on outcomes rather than billing its clients hourly, in contrast to the rest of the industry.
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Country: USA | Funding: $9M
Probably develops technology that can prevent LLM hallucinations and simple factual errors. It's a sophisticated security system, which the startup describes as a "mechanical data suit." LLM results are verified using a deterministic validation system that returns any results that don't match the dataset. Each result is accompanied by a link to the source and an audit trail of the development process, a practice that is becoming increasingly common among AI tools.
Probably develops technology that can prevent LLM hallucinations and simple factual errors. It's a sophisticated security system, which the startup describes as a "mechanical data suit." LLM results are verified using a deterministic validation system that returns any results that don't match the dataset. Each result is accompanied by a link to the source and an audit trail of the development process, a practice that is becoming increasingly common among AI tools.
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Country: Sweden | Funding: $1B
Neko has created a new AI-based medical scanning technology concept that allows for comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection that is both convenient and economical for the general people.
Neko has created a new AI-based medical scanning technology concept that allows for comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection that is both convenient and economical for the general people.
