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Agnostiq is an interdisciplinary team of physicists, computer scientists, and mathematicians with the shared aim of using cutting edge technology to build practical applications.
Armilla AI is a classical and Generative AI testing and training platform for models allowing large enterprises to build, govern, and scale their AI/ML systems. Our clients leverage Armilla AI to test, validate, fine tune, improve, and monitor any and all models across the enterprise in a reliable, consistent, and repeatable manner. We make Responsible and Trustworthy AI a reality.
Advanced Symbolics Inc. or ASI, was founded with the goal to bring market research into the 21st Century. With their AI, Polly, takes the best from the worlds of traditional academic research and the large data sets from social listening services. Ask Polly uses the large data sets as the foundation of research, and the academic methods to guide the process to find real insights.
Bazze is an AI powered data marketplace for defense and commercial customers. Bazze's commercial data marketplace provides a 10X efficiency gain in data discovery and utility, saving lives in global security and generating millions in investment returns
Carver Edison is building inclusive stock ownership for the world's workforce - Cashless Participation® Driving financial inclusion through equity ownership. Our award-winning products help leading companies provide fair and equitable access to stock ownership. Increase employee compensation, reduce cost and deliver value to your shareholders with Cashless Participation®.
Circuit Mind is on a mission to inspire the next generation of hardware inventions. Today, we are building Artificial Intelligence that automates the design of electronics circuit boards, empowering engineering teams to develop high-quality electronic systems, lightning-fast, and at a fraction of the cost.
Cognota (formerly Synapse) is the first and only operations platform for corporate Learning and Development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes. This allows training teams to get better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate disparate tools so they can make better, more strategic decisions about learning needs and investments.
Concertio is the pioneer in the AI-powered performance optimization market. Our patented products boost performance by applying low-level accelerations and by tailoring the many system and application settings to work in concert with the currently running workloads, all automatically, continuously and in real-time. Welcome to the era of self-tuning systems.
Concertio was acquired by Synopsys in November, 2021.
Cyolo provides a unified network and security platform that creates a secure digital path that connects authorized users to approved resources, to ensure business continuity.
CyVers provides Web3 security through real-time detection and prevention of crypto attacks. Next generation blockchain threat prevention- Identifies patterns and anomalies across web3 in real-time for proactive mitigation.
Databand.ai built the industry's first proactive data observability platform that isolates data errors as early as data integration and triages issues to alert relevant stakeholders before there's a crisis.
Databand was acquired by IBM in July, 2022.
Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data — and only pay for what they use. Our goal is to power the world's largest finance and fintech institutions and make data accessible for small startups.
Deeplite provides an AI-Driven Optimizer, Neutrino, to make Deep Neural Networks faster, smaller, and energy-efficient from cloud to edge computing. Neutrino streamlines production deployment for sophisticated deep learning systems. Neutrino uses AI and a novel DNN design space exploration to rapidly make production-ready deep learning for real-time, large-scale and resource-limited environments.
DeepSurface is a comprehensive vulnerability management platform that helps cybersecurity teams quickly and efficiently discover, analyze and remediate cybersecurity risk.
Demoleap is a platform for live sales demos. It is a real-time sales assistant that ensures that the right play is used at the right time, based on the customer’s persona and the sales rep’s navigation inside the demo. Demoleap helps software companies increase demo to close conversion rates, save the sellers timely logging and follow-up tasks, and gain visibility to actionable demo data.
FlowFi is a financial intelligence company intended to help entrepreneurs operate at peak financial performance. The company's platform combines technology with accounting services, enabling founders to get a snapshot of the company's health more easily, while also preparing investor reports and slides.
Golioth provides turnkey IoT cloud services with unmatched levels of choice in what matters most to hardware developers: flexibility in hardware, embedded software, messaging protocols, and connectivity. Golioth supports a range of open IoT protocols and connectivity for communication, providing security by default.
Hatch is a customer data platform (CDP) built specifically for nonprofits, providing high-quality data and automation tools at a lower cost than other platforms, making it accessible to nonprofits of all sizes. The platform helps fundraisers raise more money from new donors in less time, marketers to improve their communication with segmented, automated, and targeted campaigns, and prospect researchers to reduce their research time by up to 80%.
Knockri is an AI-powered video interview assessment API that uses machine vision, tonal analysis, and NLU to analyze candidates’ recorded responses to produce quantifiable metrics for soft skills.
Konnecto is a go-to-market intelligence platform that provides consumer brands with an ongoing blueprint of opportunities to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI significantly.
Metafold’s cloud-based 3D printing software accelerates the fabrication of ultra-complex parts. We focus on metamaterials, lattices and microstructures in large build volumes.
Mona's platform enables teams to continuously collect, transform and analyze data from all parts of your AI system to track performance metrics in a robust dashboard, be proactively alerted on anomalous behavior, diagnose model issues, conduct A/B tests, and more.
Nix is the world's first distributed privacy management platform built for social media sharing.
Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem, automating credit decisions across fintech, mortgage, and banking. The company provides document analysis infrastructure to customers like PayPal, Brex, SoFi, and Plaid, and has raised over $100 million from blue-chip fintech investors. Ocrolus enables financial services firms to make high quality decisions with trusted data and unparalleled efficiency.
OpenSoul’s mission is to create AI souls that understand, connect, and flourish together with humanity.
Parative’s Customer Behavior Platform empowers front-line revenue and retention teams by identifying when customers’ product usage signals readiness for conversion, churn, or expansion.
Personal.ai is a startup building an individuals and/or organization’s artificial intelligence to augment human memory, so you never forget.
Pienso is the leading machine learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end to end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their own machine learning models without the need for external support.
Private AI provides cutting edge Machine Learning models that are the best in the world at finding, redacting, and pseudonymizing PII from semi- and unstructured datasets. Their models hit 99%+ accuracy in 7 languages across over 50 different entity types, and deploy as a Docker container with out partners' existing infrastructure so that data never leaves their environment and is never shared with us. Ever.
Differential goes on the record with Moshe Hecht, an award-winning philanthropic futurist and innovator, reshaping the world of giving through technology and data solutions. The founder and CEO of Hatch, he is a dedicated philanthropist and has been published in Forbes, Guidestar, and Nonprofit Pro.
The WorkplaceTech Spotlight host Hadeel Al-Tashi sits down with Lizzy Kolar, Co-Founder and CEO of Scope Zero to dive into how Scope Zero's Carbon Savings Account (CSA) empowers employees to make affordable home technology and transportation upgrades while aligning with corporate sustainability goals. They discuss how the CSA not only supports environmental and financial wellness for employees but also strengthens a company's commitment to sustainability. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how integrating green benefits can drive meaningful impact within your organization.
Hatch AI, a groundbreaking intelligence platform for nonprofits, announced a $3 million raise in seed funding, led by Differential. Read the full press announcement at the link below.
MIT News: Alumni-founded Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder so domain experts can build solutions without writing any code.
On the Record with Nate Cavanaugh, CoFounder & Co-CEO of FlowFi.
In 2021, Nate co-founded of FlowFi, a SaaS-enabled marketplace that connects startups and SMBs with finance experts. FlowFi has raised $10M from top VC firms including Blumberg Capital, Differential Ventures, Clocktower Ventures and Precursor Ventures, and generated 7-figures of annual recurring revenue in its first year.
Nate was nominated to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology.
TECHCRUNCH: FlowFi, a startup creating a marketplace of finance experts for entrepreneurs, closed on $9 million in seed funding.
Blumberg Capital led the investment and was joined by a group of investors including Parade Ventures, Differential Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Special Ventures, 14 Peaks Capital and Cooley LLP.
NASDAQ: Nasdaq TradeTalks: 2024 Cybersecurity Budget Outlook with Almog Apirion, Cyolo.
FINSMES: Retrocausal, a Seattle, WA-based platform provider for manufacturing process management, raised $5.3M in funding.
The round was led by Glasswing Ventures, One Way Ventures, and Indicator Ventures, with participation from existing investors Argon Ventures, Differential Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Incubate Fund US, SaaS Ventures, Hypertherm Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, and Techstars.
AI and the Future of Work Podcast: Entrepreneurs wonder what it’s like to be a VC. And VCs without an operating background often don’t understand the grit required to turn an idea into a successful business. The best investors have been successful operators first.
Today’s guest is one of those. Nick Adams founded Differential Ventures in 2017 to invest in B2B, data-first seed-stage companies. Since then, Nick and the team have invested in an impressive group of companies including Private AI, Ocrolus, and Agnostiq.
On the Record with Elissa Ross, CoFounder & CEO of Metafold. Elissa Ross is a mathematician and the CEO of Toronto-based startup Metafold 3D. Metafold makes an engineering design platform for additive manufacturing, with an emphasis on supporting engineers using metamaterials, lattices and microstructures at industrial scales. Elissa holds a PhD in discrete geometry (2011), and worked as an industrial geometry consultant for the 8 years prior to cofounding Metafold. Metafold is the result of observations made in the consulting context about the challenges and opportunities of 3D printing.
Nick Adams on PM360: To get a better grasp on what eventual AI regulations could and should look like, PM360 spoke with Nick Adams, Founding Partner at Differential Ventures. In addition to starting the venture capital firm focused on AI/machine learning in 2018, Adams is also a member of the cybersecurity and national security subcommittee for the National Venture Capital Association and recently briefed members of Congress on AI policy and potential regulation.
BETAKIT: Metafold 3D, which wants to make it easier for manufacturers to design and 3D print complex parts, has secured $2.35 million CAD ($1.78 million USD) in seed funding.
Toronto-based Metafold was founded in 2020 by a group of math, geometry, and architecture experts in CEO Elissa Ross, CTO Daniel Hambleton, and COO Tom Reslinski. Born out of Hambleton’s geometry-focused consulting agency, Mesh Consultants, Metafold sells design for additive-manufacturing software to sportswear and biopharmaceutical companies.
Nick Adams on TECHBREW: For all the pixels spilled about the promises of generative AI, it’s starting to feel like we’re telling the same story over and over again. AI is serviceable at document summarization and shows promise in customer service applications. But it generates fictions (the industry prefers the euphemistic and anthropomorphizing term “hallucinates”) and is limited by the data on which it’s trained.
ATLANTA and TEL AVIV, Israel, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mona, the leading intelligent monitoring platform, unveils a new monitoring solution for GPT-based applications. The free, self-service offering provides businesses with granular visibility into GPT-based products and valuable insights into costs, performance, and quality.
David Magerman on THEINFORMATION: OpenAI’s stated goal is to develop and promote a software system capable of artificial general intelligence. Toward that end, the company has released systems based on large-language models, which can respond to prompts with fluent conversation on many subjects. ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing chatbot and other new systems based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 models are truly incredible and perform far beyond previous attempts at achieving AGI.
BUSINESSWIRE: Morgan Stanley at Work and Carver Edison, a financial technology company, announced today that Shareworks has joined Equity Edge Online® in offering Cashless Participation® to U.S.-based corporate clients. Since the initial launch of Cashless Participation® on Equity Edge Online®, stock plan participants have purchased more than one million shares1 with Cashless Participation®. Now that Shareworks has also launched the tool, a wider cohort of Morgan Stanley at Work corporate clients will have access.
FOX5 WASHINGTON DC: Nick Adams discusses the pros and cons of Artificial intelligence.
PULSE 2.0: Differential Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that was founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs for data-focused entrepreneurs. To learn more about the firm, Pulse 2.0 interviewed Differential Ventures’ managing partner and co-founder Nick Adams.
IoTForAll: Golioth, a leading developer platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced open access to a library of new reference designs for embedded engineers to accelerate their time to market, the launch of a Select Partner Program for energy and construction developers, and the completion of a $4.6M round of seed funding led by Blackhorn Ventures and Differential Ventures with participation from existing investors, Zetta Venture Partners, MongoDB Ventures and Lorimer Ventures.
VENTURE BEAT: Data privacy provider Private AI, announced the launch of PrivateGPT, a “privacy layer” for large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new tool is designed to automatically redact sensitive information and personally identifiable information (PII) from user prompts.
DIGINOMICA: What can an early-stage investor tell enterprises about the nascent quantum market?
The quantum tipping point – that fabled moment when quantum technologies break through to commercial adoption at scale – has been questioned in a previous diginomica report…
ENTER QUANTUM: Experts agree that commercial quantum computing at scale could be as much as 10 years away, but this hasn’t stopped investors from betting on it turning a profit in the near future. U.S. tech venture capital company Differential Ventures led the recent $6 million seed extension round for quantum software company Agnostiq which it will use to accelerate further development and commercialization of its enterprise-grade quantum and high-performance computing platform Covalent.
In this Q&A, Differential founding partner David Magerman explains why investors are throwing their weight behind commercial quantum now.
On Tuesday, April 25th, 2023, Differential Ventures hosted a webinar on “Banking in Venture Capital & the Tech Industry”. The panel was moderated by David Magerman, Managing Partner of Differential Ventures, and joined by guest speakers Michael Crook (Chief Investment Officer, Mill Creek Capital Advisers), Samir Kaji (CEO & Cofounder, Allocate), and Matt Streisfeld (General Partner, Oak HC/FT).
AICamp: Augment is a 3 month long accelerator program run by Betaworks, aimed at bringing together the most creative pre-seed & seed stage companies building software powered by AI to augment human activity.
Quantum computing startup Agnostiq Inc. said today, April 5, 2023, it has closed on a seed funding round worth $6.1 million to help accelerate the development of its enterprise-grade quantum and high-performance computing platform.
Sand Hill Road Podcast: Nick Adams joined the Sand Hill Road podcast to discuss the way startups can survive a downturn.
UniteAI: There’s no question that machine learning operations (MLOps) is a burgeoning sector. The market is projected to reach $700 million by 2025 – almost four times what it was in 2020.
Still, while technically sound and powerful, these solutions haven’t generated the expected revenue, which has raised concerns about future growth.
On Thursday, March 16th, Differential Ventures hosted our first webinar entitled Implications of Generative AI in Different Parts of Industry + Society. The panel was moderated by David Magerman, Managing Partner of Differential Ventures, and joined by guest speakers Sharon Zhang (Cofounder & CTO, Personal.ai), Erik Bernhardsson (Founder, Modal Labs), and Adam Oliner (Founder & CEO, Graft).
Welcome to the "Private Placement Perspective," a new pod storm series hosted by Matt Brown. In this first series of 2023, Matt dives deep into the world of venture capital and investing, speaking with investors and CEOs who have successfully helped scale start-ups.