Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy.

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We invest in people and technology. Our mission is to support extraordinary founders in their journey to build great companies, from early to growth stage. United Ventures is an independent Italian venture capital firm investing in digital technologies. Since 2013, it has partnered with over twenty-five technology startups, supporting their growth and international expansion process. United Ventures has €190M in assets under management on two early-stage funds, and it is currently raising the first Italy-based VC fund focused on growth equity investments to broaden the firm’s strategy of investing in the best technology entrepreneurs. The firm’s portfolio includes to date sixteen companies across Italy, UK, Switzerland, Israel, and USA: UV1 - Cloud4Wi, Datrix, Faceit, Loop AI Labs, Mainstreaming, Moneyfarm, Musixmatch UV2 - BOOM, brumbrum, Credimi, Equalum, Exein, Fiscozen, InSilicoTrials, MishiPay, xFarm

United Ventures

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

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Aindo

At Aindo, our mission is to enable Artificial Intelligence (AI) to add value to society while respecting people's rights and freedoms. We achieve this mission through the Aindo Synthetic Data Platform. Synthetic data form a revolutionary new paradigm in privacy protection and fairness. They are hyper-realistic, yet artificial and devoid of sensitive information. They replace personal data or rebalance biased datasets for safe and fair analysis. Synthetic data allows us to responsibly seize the wealth of opportunities AI presents. This is invaluable in sectors such as healthcare, finance, infrastructure, and policymaking. Aindo is one of the first teams dedicated to synthetic data. We actively further the state-of-the-art. Our platform’s best-in-class performance and advanced capabilities reflect this. We offer an effortless user-experience. This allows both experts and non-experts to integrate synthetic data directly in their data projects, even when their data assets are siloed; unstructured; unlabeled; and contain advanced data types and formats.

Based in Italy, Aindo provides a synthetic data generation platform that can be integrated into data pipelines for testing and training ML models. It creates synthetic tabular and relational data using neural generative models. The platform can obtain data from any database and can automatically annotate the data to generate synthetic data. Moreover, the platform also provides insight into data through analysis and visualizations.

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Italian Generative AI startup Aindo secures €6M in Series A funding led by United Ventures

Based in Italy, Aindo provides a synthetic data generation platform that can be integrated into data pipelines for testing and training ML models. It creates synthetic tabular and relational data using neural generative models. The platform can obtain data from any database and can automatically annotate the data to generate synthetic data. Moreover, the platform also provides insight into data through analysis and visualizations.The platform caters to companies in the healthcare, finance, telecommunications, and public administration industries and can be deployed locally within an enterprise's IT infrastructure or be provided as a cloud-based SaaS platform. Key customers and partnershipsIts notable customers include BioVallet, Gartner, insiel, and Televita.Funding and financialsIn September 2023, Aindo raised EUR 6 million (~USD 6.3 million) in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22845">Series A</a> funding led by United Ventures. The funds were earmarked for the development of its synthetic data generation technology as well as for recruitment.

Datagen provides a self-service synthetic data platform that generates visual synthetic data of humans for computer vision applications. The platform allows users to write their own code to generate labeled synthetic data for faces, full body, and humans in motion in the form of images and videos to test and train AI models while retaining complete control over the data. The data covers a range of computer vision tasks including face landmark detection, face and hair segmentation, facial recognition and identification, full body pose estimation, full body segmentation, and behavior detection.Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves three of the top five global technology companies and Fortune 500 companies across the automotive, smart fitness, AR/VR/metaverse, smart office, and home security industries. Its notable customers include Google, Toyota, NVIDIA, IBM, and Intel.Funding and financialsIn March 2022, the company raised USD 50 million in a Series B funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. The funds were utilized to bolster its position in the market.Datagen reported to have recorded 8x growth in revenue in 2022.

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Weights &amp; Biases offers a platform that allows users to build models with experiment tracking, data set and model versioning, data visualization, hyperparameter optimization, and model management. The platform enables users to automatically retrain and re-evaluate models and centrally manage all model versions through every lifecycle stage—from development to staging to production. It also helps to visualize comparisons between model versions to evaluate performance and identify regressions before model deployment. It also offers toolkits such as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19172">W&amp;B Weave and W&amp;B Production Monitoring </a>to build and monitor data- and ML-powered applications, respectively, through interactive visualizations.The company also offers a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17880">suite of tools (W&amp;B Prompts) </a>to support large language model operations (LLMOps). W&amp;B Prompts includes tools and features for experiment tracking, debugging, and collaboration, as well as a one-click method to evaluate and score prompts through the OpenAI Eval’s framework.The company provides the platform through a free tier and under a subscription model for up to USD 50 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsWeights &amp; Biases served more than 700,000 ML practitioners as of August 2023. Its notable include NVIDIA, Toyota, BMW Group, Samsung, Fujifilm, Truebill, and Clear Capital.The company has <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18663">partnered with Lambda </a>, a GPU cloud computing provider, to offer its MLOps platform integrated with the infrastructure services of the latter, catering to enterprises dealing with AI and deep-learning workloads.Funding and financialsIn August 2023, the company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20874">USD 50 million in a strategic investment </a>round at a valuation of USD 1.25 billion, led by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman. The round also saw participation from Sapphire Ventures, Coatue, Insight Partners, and other investors. The company aimed to utilize the fresh funds to further develop its ML tools, including the launch of W&amp;B Prompts.

Weights & Biases

BentoML offers an open-source platform called Bento Cloud, for the deployment and scaling of AI applications. It is a fully managed platform that handles the complexities of AI infrastructure, providing serverless autoscaling as required during the development and production stages. The platform helps to ship models to production with advanced deployment options including online and shadow A/B testing, while also providing visibility through model performance monitoring. The platform integrates with an organization’s existing data stack and enables users to continuously deploy and improve models in production. The company offers its platform through a combination of subscription and usage-based model.In addition, BentoML also provides the following open-source platforms: 1) Yatai, for model deployment on Kubernetes and 2) bentoctl, for model deployment on any cloud platform.Key customers and partnershipsAs of January 2024, BentoML reported that over 1,000 organizations, comprising more than 3,000 members, use its platform. Its notable customers include Koo, Open Layer, Line, and Naver.The company entered into a strategic partnership with TomTom, a developer of location technology, to help integrate with various models as well as in LLM deployments.Funding and financialsThe company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19684">USD 9 million in seed funding </a>in June 2023 led by DCM Ventures, with participation from Bow Capital. It aimed to channel the newly acquired funds to enhance its platform and offer developers a range of tools for building, deploying, and scaling AI applications efficiently.

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Iguazio provides a serverless platform based on its open-source Nuclio framework that helps users to develop, deploy, and manage real-time AI applications without requiring them to manually manage underlying infrastructures such as servers and storage. The platform creates real-time intelligence for applications located at the edge, public cloud, and on-premise data centers and reduces bandwidth constraints by consolidating data into a repository and making it available for applications as required. The platform can ingest and transform data from any source, which is then used to train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor models in production.The company leverages Big Data and ML software such as Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes to manage software containers that enable applications to run across different computing environments.Key customers and partnershipsIguazio serves customers in the financial services, telecommunications, smart mobility, manufacturing, retail, AdTech, gaming, healthcare, energy, and utilities sectors. Notable customers include Samsung, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS, Google, and Intel.Funding and financialsIn January 2020, the company raised USD 24 million in a funding round led by INCapital Ventures. The funds were utilized to accelerate its growth, expand its reach into new global markets, grow sales, and facilitate new sales channels that include companies such as Dell Technologies

Iguazio

Cogito Tech provides image and video annotation to generate computer vision training data sets for ML &amp; deep learning (DL). The video annotation solution leverages AI-powered tools to convert video into a sequence of images and generates training data sets for ML-based AI models, including self-driving cars and drones. The AI model understands and derives insights from visual data to detect, identify, classify, and track objects in an image or video. Cogito also provides virtual assistants and chatbots to help users in the process of training ML algorithms. Cogito Tech also provides high-quality, ethically sourced datasets that are compliant and reliable to train ML models.In addition, the company provides services to fine-tune LLMs and GenAI applications through reinforcement learning techniques as well as stress test models through red teaming.Key customers and partnershipsAs of December 2022, the company served more than 150 customers across 25 countries in the retail, medical, automotive, agriculture, robotics, smart cities, security, and manufacturing industries. Notable customers includes Verizon Media, The University of Sydney, National Geographic, Tumblr, and Vimeo.

Cogito Tech

Platforms and frameworks that help developers build and train ML models.

Platforms that deploy and host the trained and tested models in production and integrate them into applications through APIs.

Platforms that generate artificial data that mimics the characteristics of real data, which is then used to train ML models at scale.

Platforms that help monitor and manage ML models in training and deployment to track performance, conduct variance analysis, and optimize performance.

Makers of hardware such as CPUs, GPUs, and other application-specific hardware required to train and run ML workloads.

Integrated solutions that handle the end-to-end processes of developing, training, deploying, and monitoring ML models.

Data exchange providers and platforms that offer data labeling services via manual and/or software methods, which are used as input to train ML models.

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 <li>Italian AI startup Aindo has raised EUR 6 million (USD 6.3 million) in a Series A funding round led by United Ventures. Vertis SGR also participated in the round.</li>
 <li>Aindo plans to use the funding to expand its team by 10 employees in marketing, R&amp;D, and sales over the next year. The company also aims to develop solutions that enable the use of AI in healthcare, finance, and public administration.</li>
 <li>Aindo, a startup of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), has patented synthetic data generation using GenAI. The technology has been applied in various sectors, including healthcare, improving predictive analysis and patient care.</li>
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