8 AI startups that will definitely bring change in the future
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Let’s start with discussing exactly what startups are and why are they call startups?
According to the definition, a startup is a newly established business. It’s a young company that is just beginning to develop. It offers new products or services which are not available in the current market, the unique thing about such companies.
Now, let’s understand, exact why are they called startups and why not small business or new business? It all comes down to the objective of the business. Startups are mostly focused on the top revenue and growth potential.
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most talked futuristic technology. We all have seen many examples of AI around us in our day to day life. It is also known as machine intelligence. AI is used in many fields to achieve maximum results to achieve specific goals.
AI can be further divided into three types such as human-inspired, analytical, and humanized artificial intelligence. Here some of the startups in the AI industry which can make the difference in the upcoming future.
Front App
Founders – Laurent Perrin, Mathilde Collin, Thibaud Elziere
Founded Date – Oct 1, 2013
Funding – $66 Million
Just started 6 years ago, Front App is reinventing our inbox for seamless work. It provides productive by bring messages from all the channels at a single place.
Highspot
Founders – David Wortendyke, Robert Wahbe, Oliver Sharp, Scot Gellock
Founded Date – 2012
Funding – $ 35 million
Funding Type – Series D
If you are looking for sale engagement, this company is for you. Highspot helps the client companies to convert its potential buyers to regular customer and achieve their goal. It is done using a powerful research, in-context training, analytics, guided selling and more than 50 technology integrations. Using it, sales team can make most of the opportunities to gain from the data and perform their best. Many big companies like Dropbox, Twitter and Siemens are using Highspot’s advice for their advantage.
Five AI
Founders – Ben Peters, John Redford, Simon Walker, Stan Boland, Steve Allpress
Founded Date – 2015
Funding – $ 37.7 Million
Funding Type – Series A
Five AI has collected data about behaviour of road users to inform the development of the technology. 10 months of data was collected the company to understand the complete pattern. It aims to transform cities across the Europe for more safer automated cars. This special service is for the people who are using their cars for daily commute. Five AI has already started trails in the UK and by 2019, it aims to bring supervised trail cars to the major freeways.
Travis
Founders – Lennart Van Der Ziel, Nick NM Yap
Founded – Jan 2, 2017
Funding – $ 157K
Funding Type – Product Crowdfunding
Sometimes language can be a huge barrier. What if you get an app that breaks that barrier for you? Here’s Travis, it is an AI bot that translate over 80 languages. Within the launch of its first 2 years, it sold and shipped over 150,000 units all over the world.