Mercuri

"Too many brands are only looking at page views, time on site and clicks as their go-to metrics without tapping into their customers’ level of intent, leading to missed opportunities. Intent data not only reveals each visitor’s mindset, but because it updates as they shop, it lets you deliver experiences right at the optimal moments."

"Electric Twin was born from our experience leading through crisis, where we spotted a common problem: too many decisions had to be made with incomplete information. We wanted to build a solution that allows leaders to understand their audiences better than ever before – to speak to them instantly, ask them anything, and predict how they will behave. This investment will enable us to scale our vision and put synthetic audiences at the heart of business strategies."

"The creative process has always been integral to music-making and to music’s role in shaping global culture. Far from replacing creativity, AI is levelling up that adrenaline-filled process through which musicians compose and discover the right sounds. Mozart AI is building powerful generative tools for the next era of collaborative music creation that will enable every artist – from casual creators to professional producers – to turn any idea into a release-ready song in minutes, with commercial rights. We’re building toward a world where a spark of creativity – a guitar riff, a melody, an idea – can be transformed into a fully produced, monetisable song with a professional music video, without requiring technical knowledge or fragmented tools."

"Every major social platform is becoming shoppable, and every global brand will need infrastructure to make social commerce deliver. We know from our experience at TikTok Shop both the scale of the opportunity and the structural challenges enterprises face. Unbox is building the platform to power sustainable growth in this new channel, helping the world’s biggest brands sell through social with confidence."

"We’re at a pivotal moment for AI with adoption continuing to accelerate alongside sustainability and cost concerns. Our logic-based AI offers a new solution for those that want and need high-performing AI that is faster, more energy efficient and more explainable than what’s currently available via neural networks. This funding comes at a time when we’re ready to significantly speed up our product development and will enable us to bring our first product to market later this year."

"Ittybit was created to address the pain we felt handling large videos in our previous companies. We built the media tools we wished we’d had access to, and are making them available to all developers, because robust media workflows shouldn’t be so expensive or complicated that only the largest tech companies can access them."

"Rights holders are demanding greater control over how their works are being used to train AI systems"

"The current measures of success are the problem. Metrics like conversion rate, and therefore the actions retailers take to improve them, are short-term, retrospective and aggregated."