Yesterday, the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First was revealed. Among hundreds of applications, the IT giant has selected 13 startups for further consideration, with an emphasis on AI-based solutions for “pressing issues.” The selected firms have leaders from a variety of professional backgrounds and operate in several domains around Europe, Israel, and the UK
In a 10-week program that provides equity-free support from Seed to Series A, the cohort engages in a combination of virtual and in-person learning opportunities, one-on-one mentoring, and group education. In addition, the program offers counseling on product creation, business expansion, and leadership development. Credits and specialized technical Google AI skills are provided through the Google for Startups Cloud Program.
The thirteen startups that comprise the Google cohort are listed below:
Annea.Ai
Maik Reder and Marcel Frenzel established the German startup Annea.Ai in 2019 to offer predictive maintenance for renewable energy assets like wind turbines. AI and digital twin technology are used to anticipate and stop malfunctions in the infrastructure supporting renewable energy sources. Innoport and Faber contributed $1 million to the company’s seed round of funding.
By utilizing physical models to determine whether an engine problem exists in a vehicle, powerful artificial intelligence (AI), and models of how things should ordinarily perform, they increase productivity while decreasing operating expenses for renewable energy companies. When a malfunction occurs, they notify the operators up to 365 days in advance and provide a thorough study of the issue and its root cause.
Checktur.io
Agnieszka Michalik and Dr. Lusia Müller-Wittmann launched Checktur.io in 2022. It is an artificial intelligence system made to handle and automate logistics and transportation procedures. Chektur uses AI models and data-driven insights to help organizations manage their fleets of commercial vehicles effectively through an end-to-end fleet asset management ecosystem. In order to help businesses track their vehicles, they provide quick damage reporting, digital documentation, and damage allocation.
Exactly.ai
Tonia Samsonova launched Exactly.ai in 2022. With just a textual description and the company’s AI tool, artists may produce images in their own distinctive style. In contrast to their rivals, Exactly.ai provides artists with a service whereby they may train their own AI algorithms on their own artwork to produce photos in their unique style. Because the artist retains ownership of their work and both the artwork and the algorithm are their property, this also addresses the copyright issue.
Neurons
Thomas Ramsoy established the Danish business Neurons in 2013. They have so far raised 8.4 million in funding and created an exact AI model that can analyze human subliminal cues to forecast marketing reactions. Neurons is a consumer neuroscience firm that uses neuroscience technologies to improve customer experiences and comprehension. Their arsenal includes eye-tracking eyewear and a brain scanning device that use artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate conscious and unconscious user responses. Use examples include consumer journeys, in-store environments, UXD, and neuromarketing. Among the notable clients are Visa, Facebook, Estée Lauder, and IKEA.
PACTA
In 2018, Tim Adrian, Marcel Horndasch, Fabian Pohl, Ludwig Wolter, Dominik Müller, and Marcel Horndasch established the German business PACTA. PACTA provides innovative technologies that are easy to use in order to address the issue of legal digitization. It enables intelligent legal communication and automates legal procedures. By bringing together different stakeholders on a single platform, PACTA also streamlines document management and legal operations. Legal documents can be effectively created, negotiated, digitally signed, and analyzed by users, lowering expenses and risks and increasing productivity. In 2021, they raised €1,700,000 during the seed round.
Quantic Brains
In 2021, Julio Covacho López, Roy Conan Alonso Rising, and Manuel Lucania Fesser formed Quantic Brains, a company with its headquarters located in Spain. Using artificial intelligence, Quantic Brains Technologies creates a platform for producing audiovisual content. By using AI techniques that automate character behaviors, users can automate the creation of games and films. Users of the platform can design and upload animations and video games by choosing from a variety of characters and objects, including musicians, kids, warriors, cars, balls, and swords, as well as scenes. In the pre-seed round from Castiventures, they raised €300,000.
Sarus
Founded in 2022 by Maxime Agostini, Nicolas Grislain, and Vincent Lepage, Sarus is a French corporation. Sarus assists in managing personal data for machine learning or analysis. It is compatible with data systems and enables the use of differential privacy to work on data while maintaining its privacy. Sarus saves time and maintains the value of data by eliminating the need for drawn-out anonymization procedures. Users may use all of the data safely and begin projects more quickly. It minimises hazards in collaborative efforts across diverse disciplines.
Releva
Releva, founded by Georgi Georgiev and Yavor Stoychev, is a Bulgarian firm founded in 2020. They provide an all-in-one AI automation solution for E-commerce marketing. Releva specializes on real-time revenue operations globally. It’s an AI-driven growth platform, increasing consumer experiences by identifying individual demands. It’s a comprehensive solution for e-commerce marketing as it unites numerous technologies on a single dashboard for measuring, attributing, testing, analysing, predicting, and automating growth in real-time. The startup has raised $870K in their seed round in March 2022.
Semantic Hub
This is a Swiss firm formed by Efimenko Irina, Khoroshevskiy Vladimir, and Vitaly Nedelskiy in 2015. They help partners traverse tough patient segments, focusing on uncommon diseases and ethnic minorities. They leverage AI and deep NLP technology, together with Patient Voice – which is anonymous feedback from patients and caregivers on social networks and forums. Their software can handle practically any language, and they have worked in 54 nations, dealing with 40+ languages and 80+ indicators.
They turn patient language into a clinical style, delivering vital insights into their experience and journey, including unmet needs, impediments, treatment success factors, access concerns, and more. They’ve raised $2.7 million in fundraising in 2021.
Vazy Data
In 2023, Lazare Masset, Sarah Kerriche, and Jean Beuselinck established the French corporation Vazy Data. Vazy makes data analysis accessible to anyone, even without technical knowledge. The platform can be integrated with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and other enterprise databases and communication platforms. Users can pose inquiries to Vazy just like they would to a data analyst. To lessen prejudices, the AI makes sure that questions are clear and ambiguous. After that, the platform handles data retrieval, aggregation, and processing on its own. The outputs are visibly shown with the data’s origins and interpretations made evident.
Visionary.AI
In 2020, Yoav Taieb and Oren Debbi created the Israeli business Visionary.ai. The company specializes in professional photography, computer vision engineering, and optics. Cameras may now achieve even higher image quality because to visionary AI, which uses an AI-infused software-based Image Signal Processor (ISP). Bokeh, gaze correction, and depth map generation on any sensor are among the other characteristics of the device. By using a software-based ISP, updates can be deployed in real-time, enabling cameras to stay up to speed with the most recent developments in computer vision and preserve the best imaging quality on the market.
Zenpulsar
Zenpulsar is a UK-based startup that was created in 2021 by Julien Artero and Pavel Dudko. The company offers software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based financial fraud solutions. They support companies in determining what is and isn’t accurate on social media. These resources offer confidence and clarity in the confusing world of social networking. Organizations can lower the risk of false information by utilizing them. In addition, they have the ability to act fast to resolve issues and safeguard their company’s name, clients, investors, and business. The business has received €1 million in pre-seed funding from Maydan Capital and 8X Ventures.
Zaya AI
In 2022, Sabina Zurac, Mihai Trascau, and Christian Mogodici launched the Belgian business Zaya AI. They help medical practitioners make timely and well-informed decisions by using machine learning to better comprehend and diagnose diseases. Their technology uses scans of tissue and cell samples, and image analysis is used to deliver the diagnosis. Pathologists and scientists working in labs may analyze medical photos more quickly and precisely with Zaya’s strong AI and cloud technology, which also helps to improve consistency in their work. They do not yet have funding.
