Breakthrough 307 looks to not only fill the funding gap for start-up companies, but we will also strive to ensure that these entrepreneurs are surrounded by a culture of like-minded individuals, as well as access to the resources they need to become successful companies. This threefold approach takes form in the shape of BT307: Entrepreneurs, BT307: Connections, and BT307: Investors, all working in unison to create more economic wealth in Wyoming.  Breakthrough 307: Entrepreneurs is a custom built program around its participants, providing a constructive and supportive culture to cultivate dreams into real and profitable companies.

Breakthrough 307

Golden Seeds is a seed-stage investment firm with a focus on women leaders. Their investment thesis rests on the extensive research that concludes that gender-diverse teams produce a better return on equity. By seeking companies where women hold leadership positions and own substantial equity, they are funding companies that are likely to have diverse perspectives that will contribute to success.

Golden Seeds

PBJ Capital is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage investments in the information technology industry.

PBJ Capital

Gutbrain Ventures is an independent venture firm that invests primarily in enterprise software companies.  It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gutbrain Ventures

Omega invests in Intelligent Software for the Enterprise breakout companies that leverage Artificial and Machine Intelligence to deliver best-of-breed solutions and new revenue streams. The firm strives to be the partner of choice for rapidly growing and consequential companies that can benefit society-at-large and help maximize human potential through technology.

Omega Venture Partners

Caruso Ventures invests in tech-enabled companies led by highly effective CEOs. We use our deep scale up experience to help the next generation of tech leaders achieve their visions. Caruso Ventures sets up Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPV”) for our investments, which allows for additional investors to participate in select investments. Our typical initial investment is $500k to $1 million at the early revenue ramp stage, with the propensity to follow on. We are industry agnostic and we will lead or follow. Our investment focus is almost exclusively Colorado.

Caruso Ventures

Joint Effects

Wyoming is an economic development agency focused on business tools for entrepreneurs and community development resources.

Wyoming Business Council

Language I/O

The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Their machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user-generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings in 150 languages over chat, email, article, and social support channels. Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two.

Language I/O offers machine translation software designed to enhance multilingual customer support. The company's technology employs a multi-step process to deliver accurate and secure translations. Initially, the system scans messages for personally identifiable information (PII), encrypting any detected data to ensure security. Following this, the content is analyzed using a customizable glossary, allowing for the proper translation of brand-specific and industry jargon. This feature prevents literal translations of terms that may lose their intended meaning, such as "apple pencil" being incorrectly translated to "pomme crayon" in French. The final step involves selecting the most appropriate translation engine and applying the glossary terms to generate a personalized and accurate translation for the brand providing customer service. This entire process is completed within milliseconds, enabling quick resolution of support tickets in various languages.

Machine Translation Software

Multilingual Customer Support and Translation Tools

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

Language I/O Raises $5M in Funding

Language I/O offers machine translation software designed to enhance multilingual customer support. The company's technology employs a multi-step process to deliver accurate and secure translations. Initially, the system scans messages for personally identifiable information (PII), encrypting any detected data to ensure security. Following this, the content is analyzed using a customizable glossary, allowing for the proper translation of brand-specific and industry jargon. This feature prevents literal translations of terms that may lose their intended meaning, such as "apple pencil" being incorrectly translated to "pomme crayon" in French. The final step involves selecting the most appropriate translation engine and applying the glossary terms to generate a personalized and accurate translation for the brand providing customer service. This entire process is completed within milliseconds, enabling quick resolution of support tickets in various languages.
The company's solution aims to boost agent productivity and improve customer support quality across multiple languages. Language I/O claims to reduce costs by 60% while maintaining high-quality translations. The platform is designed to handle various scenarios, including high support volumes, off-season lulls, and tickets in rare languages. It also provides contingency for translation engine outages. Language I/O offers transparent, all-inclusive pricing, allowing clients to easily add more languages or adjust their strategy as needed.

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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