Portfolio
3
companies
Kyra
Kyra connects brands with TikTok creators through specialized digital products and production services.
Papercup
Papercup provides AI video and audio dubbing services featuring expressive synthetic voices.
Streetbees
Streetbees operates a human intelligence platform that analyses real-time consumer data.
Alan Hudson
Managing Partner
Alan serves as founding general partner at Mercuri and managing partner at GMG Ventures. He brings board and non-executive experience from companies including Signal AI, Made With Intent, and Ascential.
Bonnier Ventures led the Series A round to fund the rollout of the proprietary Kyra Platform.
"We built Kyra to help brands authentically connect with Gen Z on TikTok, and we’re excited to deploy our Series A capital to launch the Kyra Platform and alleviate challenges within the creator economy,"
LocalGlobe and Sands Capital Ventures led the financing round, which will fund research and quality control expansion.
"Most of the world’s videos – billions of hours of content – are shackled to a single language. And that’s for a simple reason – quality dubbing is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, so current solutions only work for a select group of deep-pocketed content owners. Speech translation technology fundamentally changes the dynamics of how content is distributed and monetised. The technology we created will level the playing field – allowing all forms of video and audio to be consumed in any language, therefore vastly multiplying the potential reach for all content creators."
The Series B round was led by Lakestar with participation from LocalGlobe, Atomico, GMG Ventures, and Octopus, and will fund platform development and headcount growth.
"Human reality is incredibly complex, and while technology has made progress in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, we’re still no closer to truly understanding the decisions that we make. Our behaviour is captured online and in the artificial reality of social media, but the near 80 percent of our lives that happens in the offline world, remains untapped,"
