Flint Capital is an international venture capital fund investing across the US, Europe, and Israel with offices in Boston, and Tel Aviv. It invests in promising entrepreneurs and technology ventures with global ambitions. Its unique global positioning enables them to support Israeli and European ventures on both sides of the ocean, as they expand into the US market. This Bridge strategy and its broad network of entrepreneurs, industry experts, and investment funds provide them with access to high-quality investment opportunities.

Flint Capital

Each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will receive investment of $200,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Each of the 10 startups accepted into SkyDeck Europe will receive investment of €145,000 from our dedicated European Fund. Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley’s global startup accelerator. Named in Forbes as a top five U.S. university accelerator, SkyDeck combines hands-on mentorship with the vast resources of its research university. Participating startups have access to SkyDeck’s 480 advisors, 50 industry partners, and a network of more than 510,000 UC Berkeley alumni.

SkyDeck Berkeley

SmartHub is a funding and service platform which connects the best start ups to investors, and supports at every investments.  Service solutions for investors – tailor made venture portfolios: focused pipeline, extensive analysis and research of investment options, deal structuring, legal paper work, quarterly reporting, investment rights protection till exit.  Service solutions for startups – fast communications and feedback, mutually beneficial deal making, strategic development support, networking and consulting at fundraising stage.

SmartHub

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is an investment Arm Behind UC Berkeley's SkyDeck Accelerator.

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Somersault Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in startups at the seed to series B stages, mainly in B2B software, marketplaces, EdTech, FinTech, and entertainment. They’re a remote-first team operating out of Dubai, London, and San Francisco. They have diverse experience in finance, operations, and product and would be happy to become one of the founders’ early partners in a long value-creation journey. They target investing the first institutional Somersault Ventures Fund in global companies where at least one of the founders has a CEE background and/or is affiliated with UC Berkeley.

Somersault Ventures

I2BF Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in 2005, I2BF Global Ventures has $400M+ under managment and it is currently investing from its fifth fund. The mission of I2BF Global Ventures is to seek out innovative and competitive companies across SaaS, Hardware Enabled B2B solutions (AI, IoT, AR, VR, robotics, RPA & automation), Digital Healthcare, and New Media, which it believes can lead the path to a brighter future. Since the first investment in 2006, I2BF Global Ventures has successfully backed 60+ startups and exited 12 companies. In keeping with its worldwide investment focus, I2BF Global Ventures retains a team of technology and sector experts in New York, London, and Los Angeles. This impressive team ensures a truly global venture capital strategy and a hands-on management approach.

I2BF Global Ventures

Providing financial services and products to the world.

Scorpion Capital

Courtyard is a VC firm focused on UC Berkeley affiliated startups.

Courtyard Ventures

Davidovs Venture Collective is a VC firm based on a community of 99+ founders (including 4 active unicorn founders), operators, and angel investors. They are engineers with a lot of experience running startups and being value-added investors. DVC invests small entry checks from the rolling fund and follows up with bigger sums along the way. DVC pools together its collective network, expertise, and resources to help its portfolio companies. DVC's investment focus is quite broad, but DVC prefers partnering with experienced and repeat founders.

Davidovs Venture Collective

Intento

Intento builds AI agents for enterprise localization using machine translation and multilingual generative AI. Its Enterprise Language Hub enables companies like Procore and Subway to deliver consistent, authentic language experiences across all markets and audiences. It combines machine translation and generative AI models into multi-agent AI workflows, customizing them to client data and integrating them into customers’ existing software systems for localization, marketing, customer support, and other business functions.  With Intento, clients achieve high-quality, real-time translations for all users and team members worldwide. The Enterprise Language Hub is ISO-27001 certified, ensuring enterprise top-tier security for GenAI solutions in high-demand industries. Intento also offers ISO-9001-certified expert help for setting up and maintaining MT and AI models and constantly refines these models with new data and user feedback.

Intento is a machine translation and multilingual GenAI platform that enables enterprises to offer a seamless language experience for customers and teammates. It allows customization of machine translation models, automates content improvement and post-editing, and offers support in over 650 languages. In October 2023, the company introduced a new platform integrating GenAI natively into automatic translation workflows, with the aim of improving translation quality by 90%.

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Intento Announces Intento Translator for ServiceCloud on AppExchange

Intento is a machine translation and multilingual GenAI platform that enables enterprises to offer a seamless language experience for customers and teammates. It allows customization of machine translation models, automates content improvement and post-editing, and offers support in over 650 languages. In October 2023, the company introduced a new platform integrating GenAI natively into automatic translation workflows, with the aim of improving translation quality by 90%.Customers can choose from several available models, such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Azure GPT, and Google PaLM, or plug in their own model.Key customers and partnershipsAs of October 2023, Intento served over 40 global organizations, including Agilent, Subway, Procore, Playrix, and the government of Canada.Key competitors: None comparable (Intento is the only marketing content and business process improvement platform we identified that supports a wide range of languages, so no close competitors were identified.)

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

Intento, a machine translation and multilingual GenAI platform, has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Somersault Ventures. Other participants in the round include I2BF Global Ventures, Flint Capital, Scorpio Capital, Courtyard Ventures, and Davidovs Venture Capital. The funds raised will be used to scale operations and introduce a new version of the Intento platform. Intento enables enterprise leaders to provide a seamless language experience for customers and teammates by allowing customization of machine translation models, automating content improvement and post-editing, and offering support in over 650 languages. The upcoming version of the platform will integrate GenAI natively into automatic translation workflows, thereby improving translation quality.

Intento

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