Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, December 23, 2024

Happy Holidays!  I hope this weekly newsletter is helpful to stay on top of what’s happening. Just from this newsletter alone, we have featured and curated hundreds of emerging startups in applying data science/ML/AI to areas such as financial services, healthcare, enterprise data, supply chain/infrastructure.  Wish you all a very happy holiday! I am grateful for your support.   - Joyce

📌 Musings and Readings

“Towards Friendly AI: A Comprehensive Review and New Perspectives on Human-AI Alignment” (Paper)

“Jet: A Modern Transformer-Based Normalizing Flow” (Deepmind)

“Large Language Models and Code Security: A Systematic Literature Review” (Paper)

🎙️Conversation

Discussion on enterprise AI product management and value creation with Nadiem von Heydebrand at Mindfuel. (Link)

👏 Deals

Triton Anchor, a MA-based startup developing anchoring systems for floating offshore wind and marine renewable energy infrastructure, has raised $2.2m in seed financing.

NeuroKaire, a NJ-based biotech startup building a platform integrating stem-cell technology, genomics, and AI to optimize treatments and advance drug development in psychiatry and neurology, has raised $10m in financing.

Chargezoom, a UT-based company offering an AI platform that automates accounts receivable processes, streamlining billing, invoicing, and payments to improve cash flow and efficiency, has raised $11.5m in series A financing.

Anatomy Financial, a CA-based company creating an AI-powered lockbox to digitize paper mail from healthcare practices to streamline billing workflows, has raised $19m in series A financing. 

Starboard, a Canada-based startup leveraging AI to automate freight forwarding tasks such as shipment tracking, invoicing, and quoting, helping businesses improve efficiency and reduce costs, has raised $5.5m in financing.

Indapta Therapeutics, a TX and WA-based biotech company developing cell therapies for cancer using engineered natural cells to enhance the immune system’s ability to target and destroy cancer, has raised $22.5m in financing.

Slip Robotics, an Atlanta-based company building automated robots to load and unload trucks in five minutes, improving speed and safety while eliminating forklifts to enhance supply chain efficiency, particularly in last-mile logistics, has raised $28m in series B financing.

Salt AI, a CA-based startup developing an AI development platform for building, scaling, and managing AI workflows through a visual drag-and-drop interface with code integration to enable teams deploy AI, has raised $3m in seed financing. 

Basis, a New York-based company that automates accounting tasks for data entry, error-checking, and financial report customization, has raised $34m in series A financing.

Hamming.ai, a CA-based AI company providing a platform for testing, optimizing, and analyzing AI voice agents, enabling enterprises to build AI voice applications, has raised $3.8m in seed financing.

Simulation Theory, a CA-based startup creating the software to optimize computing resource usage in applications to improve business outcomes, reduce costs, and minimize environmental impact, has raised $2m in pre-seed financing.

Kurrent, a CA-based company developing an event-native data platform to store and stream event-driven data, enabling real-time processing and insights for analytics, microservices, and AI applications, has raised $12m in financing.

Sotelix Endoscopy, a MD-based medical device company creating tools in therapeutic endoscopy for minimally invasive GI procedures to enable incision-free tissue closure, has raised $1.7M in seed financing.

Portal Biotechnologies, a MA-based biotech startup cell engineering platform company, raised $7M in Seed funding. 

Sunairio, a pioneer in leveraging high-resolution climate data for energy asset risk simulation, secures a $6.4 million financing round.