Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 17, 2025
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
How artificial intelligence is changing baseball (The Economist)
Can deep learning transform heart failure prevention? (MIT)
New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools (Semafor)
China's Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up (Reuters)
‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled (The Guardian)
Updating the Frontier Safety Framework (Google Deepmind)
👏 Deals
DevAI, a CA-based startup deploying network intelligence agents to streamline IT operations by automating workflows and security compliance, has raised $6m in seed financing.
Crowded, a FL-based fintech company developing a platform to simplify nonprofit financial management by unifying key operations into one system, has raised $7.5m in series A financing.
Levee Medical, a NC-based company developing medical devices aimed at improving recovery after radical prostatectomy by minimizing surgical complications, has raised $10m in series B financing.
Gaia Dynamics, a CA-based startup leveraging AI to streamline global trade compliance by automating tariff discovery, product classification, and regulatory monitoring, has raised $1.5m in pre-seed financing.
Pinkfish AI, a CA-based startup using AI to automate workflows such API integration and document processing, has raised $7.6m in pre-seed financing.
TECLens, a CT-based medical device company specializing in vision correction technology that provides non-invasive treatment for presbyopia by reshaping the cornea, has raised $9.3m in series A financing.
ConverzAI, a WA-based company utilizing AI to automate recruitment by sourcing, qualifying, and engaging candidates, streamlining interview scheduling and communication to reduce time-to-hire, has raised $16m in series A financing.
Positron, a NV-based company developing efficient, low-power hardware for transformer model inference as a potential alternative to traditional AI infrastructure, has raised $23.5m in financing.
Lingopal.ai, a New York-based startup using AI for real-time speech to speech translation in over 60 languages with features such as speaker identification, emotion analysis, and voice cloning, has raised $14m in series A financing.
Integrail, a CT-based no-code startup enabling multi-agent collaboration and application integration for multi-cloud deployment, has raised $10m in seed financing.
Keragon, a New York-based startup developing an AI platform to connect healthcare software and HIPAA-compliant automations, enabling no-code workflows for patient intake, appointment scheduling, and data synchronization, has raised $7.5m in seed financing.
Cerula Care, a CT-based startup focused on providing cancer patients a roadmap for holistic care, has raised $3.7M in seed financing.
Oso Semiconductor, a CA-based startup focused on making chipsets for wireless applications, has raised $5.2M in seed financing.
Junevity, a San Francisco-based startup focused on leveraging large-scale human data to develop Small interfering RNA (SiRNA) therapeutics targeting transcription factors, has raised $10M in seed financing.
Integrail, a San Francisco-based startup utilizing AI agents to provide low-code application development, has raised $10m in seed financing.