Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early-stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, they currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability.  They have been the first and lead institutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. They invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with a particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. They look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

Altos Ventures

Thomvest is a cross-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage, growth-stage, start-up, and mid-venture investments. The company primarily focuses on opportunities with early-to-mid-stage companies in the fields of financial technology, marketing technology, cybersecurity, sales, and cloud infrastructure sectors. As part of their focus on these areas, they are committed to helping their companies become leaders in their fields through their work with them and through the focus on understanding where value can be created in these industries, as can be seen from the research they publish regularly.

Thomvest Ventures

WestSummit Capital is a premier global technology growth capital investment firm. The firm invests in the Internet/Digital Media, Mobile/Connected Hardware, Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing sectors. WestSummit operates from offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Hong Kong. www.westsummitcap.com

WestSummit Capital

Spring Lake Equity Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm.  We invest equity capital primarily in later-stage, technology-oriented private companies.  We formed our current investment vehicle, Spring Lake Equity Partners LLC, in 2013.  The principals at Spring Lake formerly constituted the private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corp., a global hedge fund, prior to spinning off in 2013 to form Spring Lake.  Spring Lake is led by Managing Partners Bob Forlenza and Carmen Scarpa, who formed the predecessor group to Spring Lake in 1995.  Partners Jeff Williams, Dan MacKeigan, and Jon Danielson comprise the remainder of the senior investment team, which has been investing together as a group since 2001.  While at Tudor, we invested over $650 million in 75 companies across four investment funds and continue to sub-advise several of these funds today.  Our investment philosophy is simple and has remained consistent over time – we seek to partner with great management teams to take their businesses to the next level, creating value for all stakeholders.  Spring Lake strives to add value to our portfolio companies through active Board participation and accessing our network of contacts which includes our own and those of our key strategic partners, WestRiver Equity Partners, Tudor Investment Corp., and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.

Spring Lake Equity Partners

Netbase Quid

Netbase Quid is a consumer and market intelligence platform. The company provides real-time and accurate Social Media Analytics solutions that help businesses grow. Its advanced Natural Language Processing technology is capable of understanding and classifying complex language to ensure businesses are making decisions based on highly accurate data. Netbase Quid enables marketing, public relations, market research, customer service, sales, and product innovation leaders to create winning strategies faster.

NetBase Quid is a global leader in AI-powered consumer and market intelligence. The company's platform uses advanced artificial intelligence to process billions of indexed resources across structured and unstructured data, enabling businesses to make data-driven decisions. NetBase Quid's technology analyzes real-time data from online sources, tracks brand health, and identifies trends to provide valuable context for strategic planning.

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NetBase Quid is a global leader in AI-powered consumer and market intelligence. The company's platform uses advanced artificial intelligence to process billions of indexed resources across structured and unstructured data, enabling businesses to make data-driven decisions. NetBase Quid's technology analyzes real-time data from online sources, tracks brand health, and identifies trends to provide valuable context for strategic planning.
The company's product suite includes social media analytics, audience analytics, and market intelligence capabilities. NetBase Quid's platform offers features such as sentiment analysis, trend identification, competitor benchmarking, and predictive analytics. In 2022, the company launched 104 new product features, including predefined analysis views, enhanced analyst experiences, expanded language processing capabilities, and increased channel content coverage.
A key innovation introduced by NetBase Quid was the Intelligence Connector, which delivers analytics-ready consumer and market intelligence by combining internal data with business intelligence. The platform also incorporates ChatGPT-powered search capabilities to enhance productivity and automate repetitive tasks.
In December 2021, NetBase Quid acquired Rival IQ, a social media analytics provider, to expand its suite of owned and earned social media analytics and competitive benchmarking capabilities.

Reduct is a cloud-based video editing and storage platform that enables users to transcribe, organize, and edit video content through text-based interfaces. The platform uses automated transcription technology to convert video and audio files into searchable text transcripts. Users can then highlight, tag, and edit these transcripts to create video clips and reels. Reduct's key differentiator is its ability to edit video by manipulating the corresponding transcript text, allowing for efficient review and compilation of interview footage and other video content. The platform supports various file formats and integrates with video conferencing tools like Zoom for direct import of recordings. Reduct also offers collaborative features, allowing multiple team members to work on projects simultaneously. In addition to its core editing capabilities, Reduct provides unlimited cloud storage for video files, making it a comprehensive solution for video post-production workflows.
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Reduct caters to a range of industries and professionals, including researchers, content creators, marketers, and corporate teams. The platform has developed integrations with popular video editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, enabling users to export their Reduct projects as editable sequences in these applications. Reduct also supports Final Cut Pro through XML export.

Reduct

MonkeyLearn is an AI-powered text analysis and data visualization platform that enables businesses to extract insights from unstructured textual data. The platform offers both pre-built and custom machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, topic detection, and intent classification. MonkeyLearn's no-code interface allows users to clean, label, and visualize customer feedback data without requiring programming skills. The platform can process various types of text data including customer reviews, surveys, social media posts, and support tickets. MonkeyLearn integrates with popular tools like Excel, Google Sheets, Zapier, and Zendesk, allowing users to connect their existing data sources. In 2023, MonkeyLearn launched an all-in-one text analysis and data visualization studio that provides instant insights with greater granularity. The platform offers customizable dashboards and templates for different business scenarios, enabling users to create visualizations tailored to their specific needs.

MonkeyLearn

Keatext is an AI-powered text analytics platform that specializes in interpreting customer feedback. The company's cloud-based solution synthesizes large volumes of unstructured feedback data from multiple channels, including open-survey questions, online reviews, support tickets, chats, and social media posts. Keatext's platform utilizes deep learning and natural language processing to analyze, cluster, correlate, and track customer opinions autonomously, providing actionable insights through a comprehensive dashboard.
The platform is designed to minimize response time and requires no setup, featuring multilingual analysis and context-sensitive, industry-agnostic understanding. It automatically visualizes correlations and trends, offering immediate report-sharing capabilities. Keatext's technology adapts to various industries without requiring algorithm customization, eliminating the need for keywords, lexicons, and semantic dictionaries.
Founded in 2010 by Narjès Boufaden, Keatext initially operated as a professional services provider. In 2015, the company transitioned to a product-based model with the launch of its cloud-based AI-powered text analytics platform. Keatext's solution helps businesses optimize profitability through customer feedback analysis, enabling them to move from assumption-based decision-making to data-driven, research-based strategies. The platform significantly reduces the time required for analyzing customer feedback, with users reporting that tasks that previously took eight hours can now be completed in 10 minutes using Keatext.

Keatext

Aircover is a sale assistant tool that leverages conversational AI and real-time technologies to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. The platform integrates with virtual meetings, providing sales representatives with up-to-date messaging and positioning information. This approach aims to reduce ramp time for new representatives and products, shorten sales cycles, and increase win rates. Aircover's AI-powered system enforces best practices throughout sales meetings, offering real-time answers to representatives and potentially reducing the number of follow-up meetings required per prospect. The tool is designed to serve a wide range of users, from individuals to large enterprises. Aircover also features a relationship management component, allowing users to store notes and track roles within deals. By putting sales enablement on autopilot, the platform seeks to streamline the sales process and improve overall performance.

Aircover

NeuralSpace is an AI SaaS company that specializes in providing advanced text and voice AI technologies in over 100 languages. Founded in 2019, the company focuses on delivering language AI solutions, particularly for Arabic, Indian, and other low-resource languages predominantly spoken in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. NeuralSpace's platform offers a suite of products including speech-to-text, machine translation, entity recognition, transliteration, data generation, language detection, and text-to-speech conversion. The company's flagship product, VoiceAI, launched in October 2023, provides highly accurate call transcription, translation, and speech analytics for Arabic and Indian languages and dialects, achieving an average accuracy rate of 91%. NeuralSpace utilizes proprietary speech-to-text technology trained on a dataset of 40,000 hours of audio data, which it aims to increase to 100,000 hours. The company's no-code modular toolkit enables enterprises to train and deploy AI models for language processing applications without extensive coding knowledge. NeuralSpace's technology leverages modeling techniques such as transfer learning, multilingual learning, and data augmentation to work effectively with limited text or speech data. The platform can be accessed through a command-line interface, REST APIs, or a no-code GUI, making it versatile for various integration needs.

NeuralSpace

Solutions that use techniques such as named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, or summarization to produce insights from unstructured textual documents.

Platforms that summarize conversations, audio, or video files including reactions into text formats.

Tools to identify and analyze the opinions or emotions expressed in survey responses or reviews to produce actionable insights.

Platforms that decipher search queries by analyzing structured and unstructured data based on user intent and behavior.

Solutions that enable real-time conversation through chatbots or automate ticket routing to relevant agents.

Tools that automatically translate text from one language to another.

Tools that detect plagiarism, punctuation errors, or style errors in text.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for natural language processing.

NLP tools such as chatbots are used to cater to each individual

NLP tools are built using AI/ML technologies

Some NLP tools are built using foundation models

NLP tools are provided for other companies to integrate into their workflows

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