Crush Ventures focuses on early-stage investing at the intersection of pop culture, consumers, and technology-enabled experiences. Crush Music is a full-service management company with a client roster that includes Miley Cyrus, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Lorde, Sia, Weezer, Green Day and others. Crush's founders are entrepreneurs who have built and marketed some of the biggest artists performing today. They have also built and invested in companies at the ground level deploying their capital, operating expertise, and powerful relationship network to founders.

Crush Ventures

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than just capital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures'  in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

EQT Ventures

Kaiber

Kaiber specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence to transform the field of photography and video generation. With a focus on enabling artists and creators, Kaiber offers an AI-driven platform that allows users to input prompts and receive visually captivating animations and videos. This technology is designed to enhance creativity, providing tools that merge artistry with the latest in AI advancements. Users can explore a wide range of possibilities, from creating unique digital art to generating engaging video content. Kaiber positions itself as a creative lab, dedicated to unlocking new avenues for artistic expression through intuitive and powerful generative audio and video solutions.

Kaiber offers an AI-powered platform that allows users to transform text, images, audio, and video into AI-generated videos and animations. The company's flagship product, Superstudio, unifies various foundational models for image and video creation into a single, intuitive interface. Launched in October 2024, Superstudio streamlines the creative process by integrating tools from providers such as Luma Lab's Dream Machine, Black Forest Labs' Flux, and Kaiber's proprietary models. The platform's Canvas interface enables creators to combine their ideas with AI-generated content. Superstudio's modular design allows users to generate images and videos simultaneously and use these outputs as inputs in new Flows, facilitating combinations and iterations within the same interface. Users can customize aspects like camera movements, aspect ratios, and video duration up to eight minutes.

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Kaiber offers AI-powered tools for creating animations and videos, aimed at enhancing artistic creativity.

Kaiber offers an AI-powered platform that allows users to transform text, images, audio, and video into AI-generated videos and animations. The company's flagship product, Superstudio, unifies various foundational models for image and video creation into a single, intuitive interface. Launched in October 2024, Superstudio streamlines the creative process by integrating tools from providers such as Luma Lab's Dream Machine, Black Forest Labs' Flux, and Kaiber's proprietary models. The platform's Canvas interface enables creators to combine their ideas with AI-generated content. Superstudio's modular design allows users to generate images and videos simultaneously and use these outputs as inputs in new Flows, facilitating combinations and iterations within the same interface. Users can customize aspects like camera movements, aspect ratios, and video duration up to eight minutes.Key customers and partnershipsAs of October 2024, Kaiber had worked with several music artists to create AI-powered music videos and visuals. The company was behind the AI-generated lyric videos for Kid Cudi and the "Lost" AI music video for Linkin Park. Other artists who have used Kaiber's technology include Grimes, Wu-Tang Clan, Money Man, and Don Diablo. Kaiber has also collaborated with cultural entities like Boiler Room and Praying and artists such as Jon Rafman and Andrew Thomas Huang on projects using its Superstudio 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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 Artificial Intelligence company, Kaiber, secured an undisclosed funding from EQT Ventures and Crush Ventures in 2024. This funding will further Kaiber's mission to propel AI creativity forward with the help of their primary product, Superstudio, and continual research at Kaiber Labs.
 Kaiber unveiled Superstudio—an AI-powered platform that provides an inclusive interface for image and video creation. Its distinctiveness lies in integrating several foundational models and tools, thereby enabling creators to blend their concepts effortlessly with AI-based content.
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