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📣 Tech demo speaker is in! Time to get your tickets 🎫 Dr Ana Rojo-Echeburúa (Simpli) will be showcasing the Simpli platform. 🆃🅰🅻🅺 🆃🅸🆃🅻🅴: Improving Broker Efficiency with AI Agents 🅳🅴🆂🅲🆁🅸🅿🆃🅸🅾🅽 In this talk, I’ll present how AI agents can transform the insurance industry, specifically for the market review process performed by insurance intermediaries. I’ll present the platform we have developed, SimpliAI, and showcase our AI Agent for market analysis. The session will include a live demo, highlighting the product's main features and advantages. 🆆🅷🅰🆃 🆈🅾🆄 🆆🅸🅻🅻 🅻🅴🅰🆁🅽 ➳ The process of creating and using AI agents solutions ➳ How AI Agent can streamline workflow ➳ Ways AI improves broker efficiency and decision-making ➳ Main features of Simpli's AI products 🅴🆅🅴🅽🆃 🅳🅴🆃🅰🅸🅻🆂 📅 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 1 October ⏰ 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM 📍 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh Get your tickets 🎟️ through this link here! https://lu.ma/hbdj6o4e 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘆: FanDuel Activate Agency Scaleup Lessons BlackRock #startup #founder #foundermeetup #scottishtech #edinburghtech #startupmeetup #meetup #techmeetup #AIAgents

Fundamental dilemma: Is there a point of diminishing returns for the productivity gains enabled by GenAI and the cost of significantly higher energy consumption needed to drive those gains? TL/DR: Right now, we are in a PE/VC money fueled euphoric haze of GenAI “magic” where free or low-cost trial driven scaled adoption is the metric of choice of most GenAI startups and performance leaderboards are being rewritten every week. However, in a year or two, investors will seek profitable returns and the costs will rise. A large share of the OpEx for GenAI companies will be energy costs. Do we know where GenAI will tip the scales Vs. where we can manage efficiently without it? IMO, this requires much deeper thinking than has happened so far. Case in point, traditional search costs a small fraction of GenAI search. So, based upon interpreting a search query, can the search provider not determine the best way to answer it?

We're delighted our work in AI and security is being recognised by Start2 Group, an innovative changemaker in the world of business. 🥳 Our goal is to eradicate camera false alarms and provide security companies with all the tools they need to manage surveillance. Through the promiseQ Video Intelligence Platform, organizations can now customize and monitor every aspect of their camera network in one user friendly platform. Our management platform is twinned with powerful AI, designed to highlight threats to your specifications. The introduction of zero shot technology into our tech suite will allow users to utilize: 🔍Forensic Search: Search for specific elements or objects within stored video data. 🚨Detect Anything: Input natural text, and promiseQ AI highlights it in video surveillance footage. 💬Ask the AI: Input queries and witness the Large Multimodal Model’s prowess in understanding and analyzing video surveillance data. 📷Multi-Camera Tracking: Identify and detect objects, such as people or vehicles, as they move through different scenes or environments. 👋Object Re-Identification: Analyze features, such as size, and shape, to match the same object or person across different video feeds. 🌉IO Control: Receive input from surveillance cameras or sensors and have AI generate appropriate output or responses. e.g Gate control. We'll have more news on our promiseQube AI edge technology coming soon. 🟨 So stayed tuned and don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list for exclusive updates: https://lnkd.in/e8Nda5SU #AI #Technology #Security #VideoSurveillance #ZeroShot #GenerativeAI #FutureProof

We like to give credit where credit’s due, and this week EvryThink and their smart AI tech has caught our eye 👀 Not only is this scale-up achieving huge things, it also aims to help other start-ups and SMEs to thrive. Something we can totally get behind. Most start-ups and SMEs struggle with outdated financial tools that are costly, complex, and simply don't scale 🎢 That’s where EvryThink steps in, offering a user-friendly solution that’s like having a full finance team at your fingertips. Co-founded by finance tech aficionado Pedro Orlando and Cannes Lions-winning designer Ramon Sanchez, EvryThink is on a mission to revolutionise financial management for early-stage start-ups and SMEs. Their clever AI-powered platform is tailored to give founders and entrepreneurs the financial edge they need right from day one. Plus they’re going to be at WebSummit 2024 in November, and if you’re an early founder, you can even snag a spot as a Beta tester for a chance to get lifetime access to all its features completely free 🎉 Pretty cool of them, right? (Image: EvryThink) #startup #netherlandsbusiness #techstartup

💸 Cashwalk 2023 Success Stories 🌟 Start2 Group connects visionary startups with the venture capital investment opportunities they need to thrive. This #Finance Friday we're thrilled to celebrate 6 Cashwalk 2023 alumni who've secured funding from investors (such as: Bayern Kapital, HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds, caesar., IBB Ventures, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures, Better Ventures) and are making a serious impact in their industries: Octomind: AI-powered testing that finds bugs before users do. Your website URL is all they need to unleash their intelligent testing agent. #AI #SoftwareTesting VITAS - Virtuelle Telefonassistenten: AI assistants that answer routine calls and provide clear summaries, freeing you to focus on what matters. Easy setup in 15 mins, even without tech expertise. #AI #CustomerService MEDEA Biopharma: Pioneering eco-friendly antibacterial solutions using bacteriophages. Their natural approach combats antibiotic resistance across healthcare, agriculture, and more. #Biotech #Sustainability Frontnow: Revolutionizing e-commerce with AI-powered pre-sales tools for a dynamic, personalized shopping experience. #AI #Ecommerce promiseQ: Real-time video analytics that slash false alarms for security companies. Their cloud-based solution integrates seamlessly with existing systems. #Security #AI MERSOR | Reward-ly.io (formerly Mersor): Offer a vast selection of personalized corporate gifts and simplify gift-giving at all levels. They help you automate reminders, congratulations, and even anniversary surprises!  #EmployeeEngagement #CorporateGifting 👏 A HUGE congratulations to Octomind, VITAS - Virtuelle Telefonassistenten, MEDEA Biopharma, Frontnow, promiseQ, and MERSOR | Reward-ly.io! We're excited to see your continued success stories unfold. ......... #CashwalkPitchingStartups #InvestmentSuccess #StartupLife #cashwalk2024 #invest

Delighted to announce that we have has just raised €1 million in seed funding! Making machines that think like humans has been an obsession of mine for many years now. Making them do so in a way that’s safe, reliable and aligned with human goals is why we started Engaige. The story that's often repeated these days is: “The world of work will look radically different in 5 years - machines 🤖 will take over more and more ‘thinking work’ previously done by humans, making businesses more efficient, creating better service and ultimately allowing us to be more productive as a species.” But how far are we to realizing this reality? The number of companies actually using AI, rather than simply talking about it, for core business processes is still vanishingly small. Without advanced systems for observability and control, deploying generative AI solutions in production is fraught with difficulties. Since I met Hans Scheffer and Tijmen van den Elzen at a padel 🎾 tournament 18 months ago, this is what we've been working on, night and day. This funding round helps accelerate our growth and it's only the beginning. Thanks to our partners Auke van den Hout Rui Li Martijn Don Ohad Gilad Ruud Kroon Marco Barkmeijer Ton van 't Noordende Lennaert Koch Graduate Entrepreneur Fund Mamadoo Ventures Keadyn for believing in our vision, and to my amazing teammates for all your hard work so far. If you're a talented talented Product Designer, Full Stack Engineer, or ML Engineer you think you would look good in this picture, I want to hear from you! Drop me a DM right here - don't be shy 🙌 Let's go Engaige! 🚀🚀🚀

Attending Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon? Auquan co-founder and CTO Shub Jain will give two different talks this week! One on how AI is bringing meaning back to work, and another is on why — if you obsess over customer outcomes — your product will shape itself. If you’re around, check out his talks and connect with him! Talk Previews:  Liberating Finance: How AI is Bringing Purpose Back to Work November 14 — 1.40PM - 1.55PM — Centre Stage, MEO Arena Work should be inspiring, challenging, impactful. Yet, in finance, over 80% of effort is consumed by a cycle of manual, monotonous, menial tasks. AI has the potential to break this cycle by automating these tedious tasks, and enabling people to focus on high-impact work. Our mission at Auquan is simple: leverage AI to liberate financial professionals from this soul-sapping grind and bring meaning back to their work. Fail Fast; Pivot Faster November 13 — 11.05AM - 11.09 AM — Stage 6, Pavilion 2 The goal is not perfection, it is efficiency. Every new startup is going to get some things wrong, and the earlier they identify the pivots that are needed, the better their chances of success. The most effective way to figure out what’s going to work is to know your customers better than they know themselves — and validate it early and often. https://lnkd.in/dXESb447 #WebSummit #WebSummitLisbon #websummitlisboa #innovation #genai #finance

#fundingalert 💼Company: Verify 💰Funding: €1 Million  ⚡Round: Pre-Seed 👥Investors: Angel financing from serial entrepreneurs @Chris Hall and Niels Bouwman. Verify is an AI-driven software as a service provider that transforms the way you trust content forever. They are dedicated to spearheading the change in #DigitalAssetManagement (DAM) by offering DAM platforms their cutting-edge revolutionary fingerprint technology, which empowers them to manage files both internally and externally. The funds have been obtained by the Amsterdam-based AI business to hire data scientists and competent AI engineers. Check the company’s intentions to concentrate on growing directly in Europe through its network of channel partners, which includes Bynder and Lytho, in the United States. Niels Bouwman, Arion Doornbos, JP van Seventer Read more - https://lnkd.in/gxVQRQYn To share your startup story write us on - [email protected] #Verify #AI #saas #netherlandstartup #funding #news #fundingnews #startuprise

Hear it straight from our clients! ✨ VisionX AI scaled successfully with our disciplined yet flexible approach. Ready to turn your vision into reality? 🌟 Visit www.projectswemanage.com or DM us to get started! 💻💬 #ClientSuccess #ProjectsWeManage #BuildWithPWM #ProjectsWeManage #PWM #InnovateWithPWM #EntrepreneurSupport #LaunchYourVision #TechForStartups