Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, November 18, 2024
5-minute weekly must-read on data science and artificial intelligence news, funding, and research, curated by Joyce Shen.
📌 Musings and Readings
“The mental health implications of artificial intelligence adoption: the crucial role of self-efficacy” (Nature)
“OpenAI Readies ‘Operator’ Agent With eCommerce, Web Browsing Capabilities” (Payments)
“Explore Beyond GenAI on the 2024 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence” (Gartner)
“AI Is Ready for a Bigger Role in Financial Analysis” (Chicago Booth)
“Fintech, AI, and the Changing Financial Landscape” (Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia)
👏 Deals
Conflixis, a TX-based startup developing a risk engine by using analytics and machine learning to help healthcare organizations assess the impact of conflicting financial relationships on medical and operational decisions, has raised $4.2m in seed financing.
UnifyApps, a New York-based company building a unified enterprise platform to connect enterprise data for GenAI readiness, has raised $20m in series A financing.
Cogna, a London-based company that helps industries streamline complex processes, manual tasks, and fragmented data to resolve inefficiencies, has raised $15m in series A financing.
Talli, a New York-based startup building an AI-driven platform to simplify payment processes, lower administrative costs, and improve financial transparency for legal businesses, has raised $4m in seed financing.
Connecty AI, a CA-based startup developing a context engine with complex data and transforming the fragmented information into a cohesive graph, has raised $1.8m in pre-seed financing.
Zengines, a Boston-based company developing AI-driven data management software to automate end-to-end data conversion for seamless migration to new applications, systems, or services, has raised $9m in financing.
Vatn Systems, a RI-based company building autonomous underwater vehicles to empower military and defense operators to execute missions more efficiently, has raised $13m in seed financing.
Camouflet, a CA-based startup building pricing platform to help businesses adapt to market shifts in real-time, optimizing profitability and competitiveness, has raised $3m in seed financing.
Fastino, a CA-based startup focusing on delivering precise, user-friendly, and controllable LLMs through the system designed for enterprise applications, has raised $7m in pre-seed financing.
Zeplyn, A New York-based company developing an AI meeting assistant to help financial advisors and wealth management firms convert unstructured conversations into accurate notes, has raised $3 million in seed financing.
SurePath AI, a Denver-based startup building a platform to oversee GenAI solutions, monitors usage, reduces risks, and regulates access to enterprise data, has raised $5.2m in seed financing.
Gitai, a CA-based startup specializing in space robotics for constructing and maintaining satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and Mars cities, has raised $15.5m in financing.
TestSprite, a WA-based company developing testing tools for GenAI coding to streamline manual testing to accelerate development, has raised $1.5m in pre-seed financing.
Impilo, a PA-based healthcare tech startup building a digital platform to streamline virtual care management, covering device support and patient engagement for remote care delivery, has raised $11.5m in series A financing.
Vaulted Deep, a TX-based climate tech company using geologic slurry injection to permanently remove carbon dioxide, has raised $32.3m in series A financing.