Boost VC is an early stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM+, investing in deep tech: aerospace, VR/AR, energy, climate, robotics, crypto, bio/health, AI/ML & more. Boost VC leads the first round of $2M or less.

Boost VC

Warner Music Group is a music company with an interest in recording and publishing music and the artist services industry it operates through numerous international affiliates and licensees.

Warner Music Group

Intonation Ventures is a produce-centric fund investing in pre-seed and seed stage consumer tech companies. Our mission is to invest in products that bring people joy. Along with our investment arm in China, we strive to bring an international perspective to today's interconnected world. With its headquarters located in New York, New York, Intonation was founded in 2020.

Intonation Ventures

Sound Media Ventures' vision is that as web3, metaverses, blockchain, streaming, UGC, and other novel technologies proliferate, media is growing increasingly pervasive in our lives. We use media to create, communicate, learn, exercise, entertain, transact, and beyond. Our mission at Sound Media Ventures is to offer broad coverage of emerging media technology companies. Based in Atlanta, with presence in California and New York, our alternative investment management firm was established by Shachar Oren, a seasoned entrepreneur with a wealth of experience in the media and hi-tech industries spanning three decades. Our investors include post-exit entrepreneurs, engineers, data scientists, professors, operators, and risk managers. Our investments (from early seed through Series A) reach across the globe, reflecting our commitment to finding and supporting emerging talent based on merit and regardless of location.

Sound Media Ventures

First Check Ventures is focused on investing in early stage startups across the globe

First Check Ventures

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with a powerful network in Asia. From our base in Silicon Valley, they seek to invest in entrepreneurs who are innovating in a variety of sectors. They are uniquely positioned to help portfolio companies looking to expand internationally accelerate their growth in Asia. Scrum Ventures typically invests between $100,000 to $1 million. Scrum Ventures recently launched Scrum Studios that include innovative corporations such as Panasonic, Nintendo, and Dentsu.

Scrum Ventures

Boomy

Boomy is a generative music company building AI-powered tools that creators use to make original songs, even if they don't have traditional music-making knowledge. Users can also create releases and distribute them to all major streaming services and digital music retailers worldwide, and earn a share of royalties when the songs are played on networks like Spotify, TikTok, and YouTube.

Boomy is a generative music company that provides an AI-powered platform that enables creators to produce original songs even without prior music creation experience. Boomy's platform allows users to create music, share it, submit their creations to streaming platforms, and earn money when people listen to their songs.

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AI Music Startup Boomy Signs Global Distro Deal With ADA

Boomy is a generative music company that provides an AI-powered platform that enables creators to produce original songs even without prior music creation experience. Boomy's platform allows users to create music, share it, submit their creations to streaming platforms, and earn money when people listen to their songs.Key customers and partnershipsIn October 2023, Boomy entered a notable partnership with <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231022871559/en/Boomy-and-Beatdapp-Partner-to-Enhance-Streaming-Integrity">Beatdapp</a> Software, integrating Beatdapp's technology into its distribution network to authenticate every stream across all digital streaming platforms. Through this partnership, Boomy aimed to provide certainty to digital streaming platforms (DSPs), allowing its artists to be paid for their authentic streams and supporting the long-term health of the creative economy​.In November 2023, Boomy <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24618">partnered with ADA Worldwide,</a> a division of Warner Music Group, to distribute and promote Boomy's artists and their music.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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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The AI-enabled music creation platform, Boomy, has joined forces with ADA Worldwide, a division of Warner Music Group, to distribute and promote the music of Boomy's artists. Through this partnership, Boomy's A&R team will identify the top artists and select their music from Boomy's catalog for distribution through ADA. By utilizing ADA's extensive international network, Boomy's artists will be able to reach major music platforms like Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music, among others. This collaboration aims to provide more exposure and opportunities for Boomy's talented artists. Analyst QuickTake: This partnership represents Warner Music Group's endeavor to foster creativity while securing artists' rights. Boomy's AI technology empowers artists globally to create original music, regardless of their access to pricey tools or formal musical education. Last month, Warner’s Spinnin’ Records also <a href="https://sonomusic.co/news/warners-spinnin-records-partners-with-generative-ai-startup-endel-to-create-50-ai-generated-wellness-albums/"> partnered </a> with GenAI music creator Endel to create AI-generated wellness music.&nbsp;

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