• Buildup

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2017

  Buildup is a mobile collaboration and task-management platform for construction jobsites. Available on mobile devices and the web, it supports developers, general contractors, subcontractors and property managers. The platform enables identification and resolution of tasks and issues with features including dynamic punchlists, easy task creation, automated task sequencing, quality-control mechanisms, project insights and subcontractor performance analysis. Led by CEO Oren Cohen and CTO Yael Sherman, the company intends to use the $7M Series A to expand engineering, sales and marketing teams while continuing to build out its product offering for construction projects. Backers in the round included TLV Partners, UpWest Labs, 01Ventures, Abstract Ventures and Check founders Guy Goldstein and Ahikam Kaufman; Eitan Bek of TLV Partners will join Buildup's board.

• Valossa

  Led · Equity · Sep 2017

  Valossa provides advanced products for AI-based visual content search and recognition. It recently released its first commercial product, Valossa AI, a cloud service and comprehensive AI video recognition platform that watches videos and produces detailed descriptions for every second. The core recognition engine is available on-premise, via API and as a SaaS platform and detects and identifies people, visual and audio context, spoken topics, themed video categories, and explicit content from large volumes of video data. The company is completing several pilots and trials with corporations and enterprises that own and use volumes of video in their businesses, including several Fortune Global 500 companies. Valossa completed a $2M funding round and intends to use the capital to expand its product team and its global sales and marketing efforts. Leadership includes co-founder and CEO Mika Rautiainen, with new board appointees tied to the round. Valossa provides Valossa Search, an AI- and voice-powered deep-content video search platform that enables natural, verbose and flexible querying for voice-controlled movie services and entertainment platforms. The technology uses natural language processing and pattern-recognition AI to analyze video streams in real time and identify more than one thousand concepts (for example, places and objects). Use cases cited include automated scene descriptive metadata creation for content production, real-time video content discovery applications and contextual advertising. The server-side, cross-platform solution runs on Mac OS, Windows and Linux and integrates with leading voice platform vendors such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, offering functionality comparable to Apple TV OS. Valossa is based in Oulu, Finland. The company announced it raised $650K in seed funding, with backers including Butterfly Ventures.

• Bibblio

  Led · Seed · Jul 2017

  Bibblio offers a machine learning-powered platform that helps businesses engage and retain audiences by delivering smart content recommendations. Its product is delivered via an API and pre-designed modules. The company raised $1.5M in seed funding to support continued platform development and operational expansion. The seed round was led by 01 Ventures. Bibblio was co-founded by Mads Holmen (CEO) and Rich Simmonds (CXO). The fundraising was reported by FinSMEs on 05/07/2017.

No current team members are available.