AI Fund (an Alumni Ventures Fund)

Introducing AutoGather, the new product by Onwish. (https://www.autogather.ai) AutoGather organizes the web’s information into the spreadsheets you need, automatically! Use it to find leads for sales, scrape target websites, or gather any dataset from the web. 🚀 Describe your data targets and specify the desired columns. AutoGather’s AI agents will search, read, scrape, and organize the web—just like a human. Meanwhile, you can sit back, enjoy a cup of coffee, and let AI handle the heavy lifting for you. We believe manual data collection and scraping from the web should be fully automated by AI. There’s no need to hire someone or spend countless hours doing it yourself. Today marks just the beginning. 😃 We are opening limited spots for beta testing. Be among the first to experience the future of web data automation! Signup at https://www.autogather.ai

Founders and entrepreneurs: Your IP is pivotal to your founding and growth journey. 📈 And genAI means you can work smarter, not harder. IP-specific applications of AI are increasingly common for IP. Buyers must be discerning and ask themselves, is this tool secure? Is it accurate? Is it cost-effective? Seasoned investor Ray W. lays out five ways AI can accelerate your entrepreneurial journey for Entrepreneur Magazine. 👀 https://lnkd.in/g43uv8Am

Big news: We raised a pre-seed round of $1.5M to make Excel less… “sheety.” Take what Rosie is today. She’s an Excel expert at your fingertips—an AI agent that helps you take raw data and transform it into actionable insights without breaking a sweat. Whether you're wrangling messy data, solving formula nightmares, or hunting for insights, Rosie has your back, 24/7. And that’s just the start. We’re on a mission to make Rosie so advanced, she doesn’t just help you use Excel—she does the analysis for you. You’ll become 10x faster, 10x more productive, and 10x smarter. That’s the future we’re building. This milestone wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of our investors. This round was co-led by NOMO Ventures and Hyphen Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures and an amazing lineup of angel investors, including the founders of Chime, Opendoor, Kikoff, Flow Club, and others. We’re honored and humbled by their belief in our mission. Thanks to our early adopters and my incredible cofounder, Andrew Tamura. Check out the exclusive coverage from Axios here: https://lnkd.in/gCFHd-au (can bypass paywall by providing your email)

In today’s fast-paced world, nearly every sector of the economy is reinventing itself with the latest advancements in technology. As the pace of innovation accelerates, companies both large and small are turning to groundbreaking approaches to create smarter, more sustainable solutions. Yet among the thousands of exciting new developments released each year, a select group of technologies stand out for their ingenuity. These are Fast Company's 2024 Next Big Things in Tech winners. The 138 honorees span 28 categories, including AI and Data, Space and Telecom, and Health. From corporate giants to ambitious startups, each honoree has demonstrated impressive progress—showing both immediate promise and potential to drive lasting change in the years ahead. You might see this dichotomy in some of our winners: Coursera, Electronic Arts (EA), Logitech, Headspace, Houzz, and Discord. It may be the first time you’ve encountered some of these brands, but it certainly won’t be the last. Whether using AI to improve disaster-response efforts, creating a hiking-friendly wearable exoskeleton, or making supply chains more ethical, each of these products, services, and technological breakthroughs reflects fresh thinking that inspires us. Read the full #FCTechAwards list: https://bit.ly/3Cz2HVj