Portfolio
5
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.
Signal AI
Signal AI provides an augmented intelligence platform that helps corporate leaders monitor news and regulatory data.
Signal Media
Signal Media operates an artificial intelligence platform for corporate reputation management and decision support.
Streetbees
Streetbees gathers real time consumer insights through a global network of smartphone users.
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.
LinkedInBonnier 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,"
Highland Europe led the round with participation from abrdn, Redline Capital, MMC, Hearst and GMG Ventures.
"Our vision at Signal AI is to transform business decision making through augmented intelligence. We are thrilled to have Highland Europe and abrdn join us in this latest round and appreciate the continued belief and support of our existing investors. The investment will allow us to continue to attract the best in class ML and AI product engineering talent, to scale our AIQ platform, grow our international hubs and advance the use of our decision augmentation solution with some of the world’s biggest companies."
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,"
The Series C round was led by Redline Capital with backing from MMC, GMG Ventures, and Hearst Ventures.
"Our vision at Signal AI is to transform business decision making through augmented intelligence. We are building artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that learn what an executive needs to know and investigate huge amounts of data to provide critical insights in real-time. The results give them absolute clarity about what’s happening outside their organization to make the most informed decisions,"
