Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, and financial technologies.  Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Breyer Capital

Bridgewater manages approximately $120 billion in global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign governments and central banks, corporate and public pension funds, university endowments and charitable foundations. Approximately 1,200 people work at Bridgewater, which is based in Westport, Connecticut.

Bridgewater Associates

AME Cloud Ventures focuses on seed to later stage companies building infrastructure and value chains around data. It specializes in technology-heavy companies gathering or creating unique data at every stage of the data stack — from infrastructure all the way to applications, mobile, and sensors.  It strives to find, fund, and support true entrepreneurs. The firm provides a unique and genuine set of resources to our founding teams, from strong operational and business experience to networks of amazing mentors and international partners, particularly in China. AME Cloud Ventures is the venture fund led by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!

AME Cloud Ventures

We are born from our network and we believe that the collaboration of many different people's skills and connections with diverse points of view to build fast great companies. We are entrepreneurs talking with entrepreneurs. We like great businesses that are addressing the real needs of LATAM and the U.S markets. We invest in intelligent and resilient founders that spend all their time and energy solving their business’ core issues. We listen to help to create value. We engage our network to quickly generate the maximum impact in sales, focusing on growth to be a global company. We foster a balance between capital commitment and intellectual contribution, seeking to reach the next funding round in the U.S.

Staged Ventures

Elemental Cognition

Elemental Cognition (EC) provides a revolutionary hybrid AI platform with superior natural language understanding that powers expert problem-solving intelligence in conversational and discovery applications. EC was founded in 2015 by Dr. David Ferrucci, the renowned AI researcher and inventor of IBM’s breakthrough Watson technology. EC AI transparently engages with people to understand, reason, and explain complex problems.  EC customers are in several verticals, including but not limited to healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, financial services, and travel. The mission of Elemental Cognition (EC) is to transcend conventional AI, aiming to aid individuals in comprehending intricate content, engaging in logical thinking about it, and locating as well as elucidating solutions. Elemental Cognition remains devoted to creating ethical and lucid AI, designed to contribute to resolving issues and providing proficiency in a manner that is both comprehensible and reliable. Recognizing AI's potential to function as a cogitative partner akin to a human, EC envisions a landscape of transparency, where the rationale behind outcomes is on par in significance with the outcomes themselves. What sets EC apart is its distinctive methodology, intertwining varied AI strategies within an innovative framework. This framework assimilates and ratiocinates upon knowledge that is understandable to humans, fostering collaborative and dynamic problem-solving. The outcome manifests as an expert problem-solving acumen that is more lucid and resource-efficient, seamlessly integrated into conversational and exploratory applications.

Elemental Cognition, founded by AI researcher and inventor of IBM’s Watson technology Dr. David Ferrucci, develops large language models (LLMs) to provide responsible and transparent AI solutions to solve complex research and optimization problems.

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Elemental Cognition, founded by AI researcher and inventor of IBM’s Watson technology Dr. David Ferrucci, develops large language models (LLMs) to provide responsible and transparent AI solutions to solve complex research and optimization problems.The company’s main products are:Cora: A SaaS research and discovery tool that provides users with accelerated access to information and insights. Cora's capabilities include natural language processing, semantic search, and machine-learning algorithms, which enable it to understand and retrieve relevant information from a wide variety of sources. Its use cases include investment research, visual conversations, domain knowledge exploration, and drug discovery.Cogent: A dialog system that helps to create interactive problem-solving applications. These applications are designed to understand and transform business requirements into intelligent, engaging solutions. Cogent's capabilities include natural language processing, dialog management, and machine-learning algorithms that enable it to engage in meaningful conversations with users and provide tailored responses to their queries. Its use cases include travel planning and higher education planning.Key customers and partnershipsIn August 2023, the company entered a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to utilize foundation models available on Google’s Vertex AI and make Elemental Cognition’s services available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. It has also partnered with Runyon (May 2023), OneWorld (May 2023), and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/674436">Unqork</a> (May 2024) to offer integrated product offerings.Funding and financialsIn August 2023, Elemental Cognition raised USD 60 million in a Series B round from Bridgewater Associates, Breyer Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Staged Ventures, and other individuals. The funds were slated to support the commercial growth of the company’s patented problem-solving platform.

DeckRobot is a platform compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint that leverages AI to transform raw slides into enterprise-ready presentations. DeckRobot AI transforms draft slides into professional, on-brand slides by adapting graphics from a vast library of slide examples. Users can apply an unlimited number of styles to any slide deck, including old documents, client materials, or web-sourced slides.DeckRobot offers enhancements for individual slides, such as adding approved icons and images, object alignment, slide resizing, and text validation through AI checks. DeckRobot's plugin acts as a time-saving tool for PowerPoint users, reducing manual work and potentially saving up to 80% of working time. The plugin emphasizes creating visually appealing presentations that adhere to company brand guidelines while maintaining content quality.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company reportedly worked with 70% of the largest consulting and audit companies.

DeckRobot

Based in Italy, Contents.com is a generative AI-powered multimedia creation tool directed at marketing teams, bloggers, publishers, web agencies, ecommerce sites, and large corporations looking to scale content output. The company operates as a SaaS platform that provides tools to support the entire content creation workflow, combining AI-generated output with manual finishing. Contents.com’s features include:1) Industry trends: Uses AI to provide an overview of popular content trends during a specified time period2) AI Chat: A natural language chatbot that can answer questions on any topic or be used to generate content ideas3) AI Writer: Generates content based on a selected template, including blog posts, social media posts, product descriptions, marketing emails, search engine optimized content, and summarized and rephrased content4) AI Art: Generates images based on text inputs, a selected style, and destination content type5) Text to Audio: Converts text documents into audio, with several AI voices available for selection and generates text transcripts from audio input6) AI Translation: Translates content into 25+ languages (January 2024) and offers human translation7) Professional writing services: Completion and review of AI-generated content or fully outsourced content creation by human writersContents.com also offers a customizable enterprise solution, enabling large organizations to automate their content creation processes.The firm claims that its solution can generate content 10x faster.In April 2023, Contents.com acquired Scribeur, its main French competitor, expanding its customer base to include major French and European brands. In the same month, the firm also acquired translation company Traduzione.it. In addition, in May 2023, the company acquired Scribox, an Italian content marketing marketplace, to leverage Scribox's expertise in custom content creation, SEO, and social media marketing.Key customers and partnershipsAs of May 2023, Contents.com’s users included Allianz, Billboard, IKEA, Oppo, and Accenture.

Contents.com

Estonia-based Alpha3D utilizes GenAI technologies to allow users to automatically convert text prompts or 2D images of real-world objects into interactive 3D digital assets. The platform aims at simplifying the 3D model creation process, making it more accessible and scalable for users regardless of their 3D-modeling knowledge. Alpha3D's technology has potential applications in various domains, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), virtual try-on (VTO), gaming, the metaverse, and even non-fungible tokens (NFTs), allowing a wide range of digital interactions and experiences​.The platform claims to automatically generate 3D content 10x faster and up to 100x cheaper than traditional methods, without requiring 3D modeling expertise.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2023, Alpha3D had managed to garner a user base of nearly 100,000 platform users, including Viva Technology, Threedium, Wanna, PwC, and FARFETCH.In June 2023, the company partnered with Tryme, a company specializing in custom software solutions, to advance the creation of AI-generated 3D models for eyewear by combining Alpha3D's rapid 2D-to-3D conversion with TRYME's virtual try-on platform.

Alpha3D

OASIS is a human-centric AI research lab that offers photorealistic AI avatars for remote work. Users can enter text, record audio, or write directly on the screen, and the AI will rewrite based on specified preferences or settings, allowing users to generate rewritten content for various purposes, such as improving clarity, style, or readability. The cross-platform app allows users to use the AI avatar when using a camera, including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, and WhatsApp.

OASIS

Canada-based Maket specializes in utilizing GenAI to automate the design of residential floor plans, aiding architects, designers, and developers in efficiently creating various design iterations​. Additionally, Maket offers a suite of tools, including a virtual assistant for informed desig-making, assistance with navigating zoning codes, and regulatory compliance checks. The platform is also integrated with Rhino, Autodesk Autocad, and Autodesk Revit.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;In April 2022, Maket formed a strategic partnership with <a href="https://mila.quebec/en/mila-and-maket-announce-a-new-partnership-to-leverage-ai-for-generative-architecture/#:~:text=MONTREAL%20%E2%80%93%20April%2020%2C%202022,architecture%2C%20engineering%20and%20construction">Mila</a>, a deep-learning research institute, to advance AI-powered architectural planning​.Key competitors: None comparable (Maket is the only design startup we have identified that uses GenAI to automate the design of residential floor plans.)

Maket

Companies that offer solutions to generate text from a prompt, where output is independent of previous interactions, such as specialized content creation tools

Companies that offer solutions to create and edit images and GIFs, including techniques such as inpainting, outpainting, upscaling, and stylizing

Companies that generate or synthesize voice and audio, including voice cloning, text-to-speech, and language translation

Companies that specialize in generating 3D content, including the creation of game assets (virtual worlds, non-playable characters), product visualization, and other 3D models

Companies that offer solutions to create and edit video content, including scene generation, background replacement, stylizing, and frame interpolation

Companies that offer solutions to generate contextually relevant text responses across multiple conversational exchanges, such as natural language chatbots

Generative AI applications are built on foundation models that are trained using advanced ML models

The technology allows the creation of digital avatars and virtual games

All companies within the space offer a product or service based on generative AI

The technology allows the creation of personalized content

Some applications leverage NLP to train models to process and respond to language-based prompts

Generative AI applications are built on in-house or third-party foundation models

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