Alchemist Accelerator, the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is internet hosting a demo day right now for its thirty first batch of corporations. For a lot of of those corporations, it’s the primary time they’ve proven their efforts to the world.
The accelerator itself, in the meantime, has some information: new management. Rachel Chalmers, previously the top of AlchemistX (a division of Alchemist that helps governments and corporations like Siemens and NEC construct incubators of their very own), will turn into the brand new president and managing director of the principle Alchemist accelerator. Ian Bergman, beforehand world managing director for Microsoft’s “Microsoft for Startups” program earlier than becoming a member of Alchemist in early 2021, will now head up AlchemistX. Whereas former Alchemist managing director Ravi Belani says he’ll nonetheless be formally concerned with Alchemist, he’ll be specializing in coaching founders, serving to them fundraise, and “initiatives to deepen and broaden our platform.”
On the brand new position, Rachel Chalmers tells me “Ravi and I’ve labored collectively for years and have a strongly overlapping shared worth set across the significance of connecting entrepreneurs with company area specialists to create innovation and alternatives. Alchemist is above all a community and a neighborhood, and I’m dedicated to serving that neighborhood.”
Alchemist will stream right now’s demo day dwell on YouTube — you may find that right here starting at 10:30 am pacific.
In the meantime, right here’s an alphabetical record of the brand new corporations presenting right now, every with a number of phrases about what they’re doing as I perceive it:
Advisar.AI: Builds fashions meant to assist groups detect developments/patterns of their knowledge with “self-supervised, predictive machine studying.”
agtools: A platform for “farmers, consumers, and everybody on the availability chain” to assist higher perceive market conduct and earn more money whereas minimizing waste.
AIsport: Instruments for on-line/digital sports activities coaches, with pc imaginative and prescient meant to assist rely reps and monitor kind.
Flyhound: Builds instruments to assist rescue teams higher make the most of drones to search out lacking individuals, reply to pure disasters, and many others.
FreeFuse: Turns coaching movies into an interactive table-of-contents-style “tree”, permitting viewers to extra simply discover simply the content material they want/need.
Haze Automotive: Extra accessible carbon fiber for cars, it seems like. Their touchdown web page is fairly locked down, however the founder’s LinkedIn says they “are taking race-car know-how [that] is generally unique to hyper-cars (because of the excessive value) and democratizing it to mass market autos.”
Insightarc: Automated insights that will help you shortly work out the place/why you’re dropping clients within the buy circulate.
Krinu: Connects chat platforms (like WhatsApp/Sign) into your organization’s CRM (like Salesforce or HubSpot) to make buyer chats simpler to maintain monitor of and observe up on.
Lendha: Banking instruments and short-term loans for small companies in rising markets, starting with Nigeria.
Loyee: Constructing a Slack bot that analyzes your organization’s CRM knowledge and messages when it spots uncommon developments or insights.
Marvel Carbon: Carbon recapture. The corporate’s LinkedIn says it’s working to “seize and return CO2 again underground”, whereas their web site particulars utilizing micro-algae to do the capturing.
PieData: Not a lot is obtainable on this firm, however they’re pitched as a “No-Code platform that lets you discover, launch & prepare ML fashions”.
Masthead Data: A no-code answer for monitoring your workforce’s Google BigQuery knowledge, figuring out anomalies and figuring out when/why issues went off the rails.
mechlabs: A “fast-paced, hands-on crash course” that teaches college students to construct robots with laser cutters, PCB printers and extra.
Outwork: An analytics platform + {hardware} to assist producers make quicker, extra correct quotes
Peace of Mind: A “psychological resilience” program meant to assist workers establish and handle stress/emotional pressure to cut back threat of burnout.
renovai: An “AI-based stylist” for e-commerce manufacturers that may assist establish, say, a desk that may look good with that sofa you’re shopping for after which place each in a mock-up picture of a room.
Seccuri: A “good matching” platform for serving to corporations develop their cybersecurity workforce.
Torus: Helps banks and cost suppliers higher analyze and optimize the community charges they pay when a card is used.
Unibaio: Engaged on “nano-vehicles primarily based on pure compounds” to cut back how a lot pesticide should be was once efficient.
weRice: An augmented-reality primarily based device that helps manufacturing/building staff establish points whereas robotically saving any learnings for the following particular person coping with it.
The Demo Day may even embody a handful of displays from Alchemist alum corporations now seeking to increase a Sequence A, together with Billo, MATERIALL, Mobiz, and Yieldigo.
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