AI Fund

Voice is eating software. 🔊 AI tools are rapidly moving past the text interface. Join our virtual chat on March 18th to hear from leaders in the AI Fund ecosystem on how they are leveraging AI voice tech. AI Fund CTO Carlos Alzate, PhD will lead a fireside chat with Ankur Jain (CEO & Co-founder, Jivi AI) and David Norris (CEO & Co-founder, Affineon Health) covering: - The current state of voice tech - Technical challenges and solutions - Where voice tech is going next - And much more! 📅 March 18, 2025 | 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM PT REGISTRATION: https://lnkd.in/e9Etrb8z

We're thrilled to share that Freight Hero has officially launched! This innovative venture represents a new chapter in supply chain automation, bringing AI-powered solutions to an industry ready for transformation. We co-built Freight Hero in our studio alongside our partners at Dynamo Ventures and the exceptional leadership of André Luis Martins Filho. Freight Hero serves freight brokers by automating critical back-office processes, allowing brokers to focus on what they do best — building relationships and driving sales. What sets Freight Hero apart is its novel approach to automation: - Deep industry expertise combined with cutting-edge AI capabilities - Human-in-the-loop methodology ensuring quality and reliability - Volume-based pricing aligned with broker economics, not another SaaS subscription Our partnership with Dynamo and André to launch Freight Hero reflects our commitment to building AI solutions that create genuine value for businesses. By tackling the manual, time-consuming tasks that slow freight brokers down, Freight Hero demonstrates how AI can transform workflows in traditional industries. Congratulations to André and the entire team! We're proud to be part of this journey and excited to see how Freight Hero revolutionizes freight brokerage operations. To learn more about Freight Hero, visit: https://freighthero.ai

Warren Packard is speaking at 1871's Consumer Tech Connect Series this month! He'll be sharing insights on consumer tech evolution, AI advancements, and opportunities for entrepreneurs in today's tech landscape. Warren brings his unique perspective as both a venture capitalist and founder of Thuuz Sports, where he pioneered AI applications in sports entertainment.

From an idea in Palo Alto 2019 all the way to nearly 280 people across 21 countries today, Factored is unstoppable! 💪 Congratulations to Israel Niezen and the Factored team for their incredible growth and success. 🎂📈 Factored helps US companies accelerate their roadmaps by building and scaling the highest-caliber data science, machine-learning, data engineering, and data analytics teams quickly and efficiently.

Welcome aboard Johnny Lee! Johnny Lee joins AI Fund as a Fellow. A senior technical leader at Google and Microsoft before that, Johnny advises founders on technical aspects of their products. Johnny's impressive career at Google, includes founding what is now ARCore and the Geospatial API, now used on billions of devices worldwide. He also contributed to developing Google Glass, led Google's robotics efforts focused on learning from human teleoperation, and most recently directed Google's wearable AI initiatives for AR experiences, including work that influenced Project Astra. Johnny's Wii Remote hacks garnered over 15 million YouTube views and led to his popular TED Talk. Glad to have you in the AI Fund ecosystem, Johnny! Link to Johnny’s TED Talk and more about him in the comments below.

Spotting unicorns or dodging crises—how can AI find these patterns no one else can see? For Ken So, It all started early in his career, when he passed on the opportunity to buy a distressed data center company. Several years later, NVIDIA bought them for billions. That became a big notch in Ken's anti-portfolio of missed deals. To help investors avoid missing these kinds of patterns, he co-founded Octagon, a platform that uses AI to help investors conduct research at a superhuman level. It's empowered one client to identify distressed assets before they hit foreclosure and others to find diamond-in-the-rough deals to snap up.

Congratulations to James Milin, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Daniel Rock, and the rest of the Workhelix team on their spectacular Series A milestone! Businesses are drowning in AI hype while struggling to make it real. The potential feels tantalizingly close -- just look at the billions pouring into AI investment from the Fortune 500. Yet most companies are stuck in paralysis, unsure where to even begin. This is where Workhelix comes in. They empower enterprises to turn GenAI hype into measurable business impact. Rebecca Szkutak at TechCrunch has the story: https://lnkd.in/d_NravRD

Discover how diversity in data is pivotal for reaching a global marketplace and advancing healthcare. Warren Packard from AI Fund talks about why an inclusive approach to data is economically beneficial and essential for serving a diverse customer base worldwide. Watch more: https://hubs.li/Q037TC1-0 #TheAIHouse #CES2025

"The future of work isn't about dashboards, it's about systems that think with us." - Deepak Shrivastava Deepak Shrivastava and Jason U. are building Sunrise AI to do just that by turning customer data into revenue—AI-driven insights, delivered directly inside Slack. Some of the fastest-growing B2B companies use Sunrise AI to power AI-driven customer intelligence for their GTM teams. By training AI models on their own customer data, Sunrise AI surfaces upsell opportunities, churn risks, and workflow automation—all within Slack. By unifying data across CRMs, support platforms, payment systems, and data warehouses, Sunrise AI helps companies increase retention, optimize engagement, and drive revenue growth.

A crisis exists among the world’s 200 million managers: 85% receive no support when they transition into leadership roles. That's not exactly a recipe for success... Which is where Ian Gover and the Rypple.ai team come in. They are solving this problem by using AI to provide accessible leadership development tools and coaching to the “forgotten middle” — the oft-neglected cohort of middle managers. Rypple empowers new managers to navigate challenging transitions and unlock leadership potential at scale.