Here lies some of the coolest news and opportunities available for our community — courtesy of corporate partners, community members, and The Good AI 💪🏽♨️ ★★★★★
What’s Going on in the Community? 👀🤩
NeedEnergy: Selected for the 2023 Class of Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator 🚀
Super Proud of our Community Startup Member that’s working on the missing platform for trading renewable & clean energy at the edge of the grid 💪🥲
HACE: Data Changing Child Labour Launch Child Labour Index 🚸📇
The team at HACE in partnership with the development team at Equal Experts has released the Child Labour Index, a platform-based solution that can be integrated into existing ESG platforms. 🤝
Pina Earth Partnership with Squake 🤝
Pina Earth is turning monocultures into biodiverse, climate-resilient forests all over Germany. Pina Earth’s high-quality projects are now part of SQUAKE’s local climate portfolio.
The partnership will unlock exponential opportunities to channel climate change mitigation contributions. 🎉
Deeploy Milestone Partnership 🤝🎉
🚩Milestone partnership for our community member, Deeploy who has now partnered with bunq to reshape the future of banking 🏦💸💱
👨⚖️ In order to ensure maximum transparency and explainability, bunq has incorporated Deeploy ’s Responsible AI Platform in its MLOps setup. Designed to ensure production-ready deployments, traceability, explainability, and human oversight.
⚙️ Bunq and Deeploy also built a tailored explainability method specifically for transaction monitoring.
📖 Learn more about the news below👇
Private AI: Fundraising News 🎉
The company raised an $8M USD Series A round, led by BDCCapital (Canada)🎉
⭐“We have built a privacy layer for software that can easily integrate into any environment with just three lines of code,” says Patricia Thaine, Co-Founder and CEO of Private AI ⭐“We’ve already proven that using valuable data while still maintaining privacy is possible. This funding will have a major impact on widening our reach.”
🫂Joining BDC Capital are new investors GIT1K, Panda Angel Partners, and a major corporate venture fund in the APAC region.
💸 The funds will be used to enhance our current best-in-class product offerings and continue global expansion.
Climate Change AI Summer School
The applications for the second edition of Climate Change AI Summer School have opened! 👩🎓☀️🌍
⭐Designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence (AI) and/or a background in a climate change-related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
⭐Aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of participants and facilitate project-based teamwork to strengthen collaborations between different fields and foster networking in this space.
This year, the summer school consists of two independent components:
- an open-to-all virtual program (held between June-August 2023) and
- a selective in-person program (from August 14-18, 2023 in Montreal, Canada).
Courses will be conducted by members of Climate Change AI and world-renowned experts in AI and climate change.
⭐ Apply Here: https://lnkd.in/erHxx6Ds
Spacesense Offering New Feature
In the next few weeks, SpaceSense will start offering Planetscope data from Planet. 🌍
If you are looking for high-resolution optical data for your fields or forests, this is a must-have!
If you are interested, let us know by filling the form below. The first few companies to register will get a discount.
⭐ Fill in this survey: https://lnkd.in/e4WeWf86
Wenru (Wendy) Shi, Chief Impact Officer of FINGREEN AI won the Jury’s Prize at the HEC Women’s Forum!
Congratulations to our start-up community member Fingreen for the award — good to see schools and society at large putting emphasis and highlighting the importing of impact in the start-up landscape! 🚀💫
Wendy Shi:
“Grateful to see the increased diversity in the startup ecosystem. Diversity is important across businesses, and FINGREEN AI wants to accelerate this transition by helping financial institutions and corporations disclose, report and optimize ESG performance.”
Start-Up News: Overstory
Huge Congratulations to Overstory — they recently raised$5.2M in funding to support their fight against the climate crisis. It was led by Convective Capital. This round helps them expand their vegetation intelligence platform, mitigating wildfire risk and preventing power outages. 🥂🎉
🌎 Overstory 🌎
ClimateView: Europe's 100 Hottest Startups by WIRED 🔥
ClimateView included in the famed list of Europe’s 100 Hotest Start-ups as listed by Wired.com — famed American magazine that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
🌬️ Climate View 🌬️
ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. 🔥
Resync - Receives Spot on 2022 APAC Cleantech 25 🚰
Resync is an AI driven Intelligent Energy Cloud Solution that helps Enterprises to be Energy Efficient and meet Sustainability goals. Their cutting edge technology and machine learning enhanced solution ensures advanced analytics, optimisation and monthly savings for smart buildings, renewable energy assets and smart homes!
✨ Resync attended the Cleantech Group Forum Asia 2022 and APAC25 award from 12-13 Oct.
🌟 Company received a spot on the coveted 2022 APAC Cleantech 25 list — a compilation of the top companies driving sustainable impact in the region.
Alba Robot - Two New Models for Autonomous Vehicles 🚕
ALBA Robot provides a modular and configurable platform to integrate autonomous driving, voice assistants and robotic technologies into personal vehicles (wheelchairs, mobility scooters,).
✨ Debuted two new models of autonomous vehicles designed for indoor spaces and pedestrian areas at Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) on the10th to the 14th of October in Dubai.
💫 The new model of SEDIA has been realized in co-branding with Italdesign and represents the excellence of the Italian design applied to a new mobility.
Interstellar Lab - BioPod Unveiling Ceremony 🚀
Interstellar Lab develops modules for sustainable living on Earth and in Space. Using space exploration design and technologies, we have developed environment-controlled pods for crop cultivation on Earth and life support in Space.
- Unveiled on September 20, 2022. If you missed it, click on this link! 🧠💡
- BioPod provides sustainable farming solutions for agriculture, natural ingredient sourcing, and bioconservation.
SpaceSense Release of Commercial Platform 🚀
SpaceSense is a technology company helping organizations build geospatial AI solutions simpler. They provide an AI toolbox designed to help geospatial data scientists and developers build AI solutions faster, easier and at scale.
💫 Released first version of the commercial SpaceSense platform 🚀
💫 Attended & won the ESA Earth Observation Pitch challenge 🏆
Opportunities of Interest:
🏝️ European & French AI Start-up Landscape
Context:
Hub France IA & Partners Across Europe are mapping out the landscape of AI start-ups across France and the Union at large. The goal is to shine a light on the top AI start-ups in Europe in order to drive AI adoption and create more partnership opportunities between start-ups and corporations.
Start-up community members can apply to get listed on the landscape, French Start-ups can apply through this form 🖊️
Applications will be reviewed by the jury by March 2023.
🔖 Interview for Start-up Members → Research on Business Model Innovation
Context:
One of our community talent members is currently doing her graduate thesis research looking into innovation withing data-driven companies. As a start-up member, you can help her by participating in the study and booking an interview below. 👇
Courtesy of The Good AI Community:
🎁 Benefits
Cloud Provider Discount with Scaleaway 💽
- Cloud Provider Discount for Community Members
- Download file above for details
🆘 Pro-Bono Labeling for AI Projects for Social Good
Community Member Humans in the Loop is offering pro bono labeling for AI projects for social good.
- Humans in the Loop will design the labeling process, set up your project, and dedicate up to 1000 hours of work for free.
💌 To apply, email Iva here.
