Sparks Lab
3587 Lupine Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, United States
Overview
SparkLabs Group is a network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 550 startups across 6 continents since 2013. We believe innovation is global and entrepreneurial knowledge, excitement and talent continues to spread around the world. We are innovation ecosystem builders that help local startups go global. We are passionate about helping entrepreneurs because we have been there many times before from dreams on a napkin to building products through the night.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- KidSense
Participated · Equity · Sep 2018
Kadho develops Kidsense Edge, an embedded automatic speech-recognition platform trained to understand children's voices. The model was built using a dataset of 150,000 children’s voices and is targeted at voice-enabled toys, robotics, and smart speakers. Kadho initially offered a server-based Kidsense cloud AI (late 2017) and has since developed an on-device embedded version that performs all processing locally to meet COPPA and GDPR privacy requirements. The embedded approach enables either flat-fee licensing or subscription pricing and supports over-the-air updates. The company reports deployments in several toys, robotics, and A.I. speaker products worldwide and is testing with chip makers and major kids’ brands in the U.S. Kadho has also demonstrated dual-language speech recognition that can decode two languages within a single sentence. The company reports approximately $1.2 million in annual revenue from customers on annual contracts and its SaaS model.