$$ Andreas~Schemm,Founder~and~CEO
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**Deck**
🤠 Founder: Andreas has 12+ years of executive experience, founding companies and specializing in marketing, gaming, and Blockchain.
🔍 What it does: A Cost-Effective, Human-Powered Data Labeling Platform.
💡 Pitch: Heph is a cost-effective, human-powered data labeling platform that utilizes blockchain technology to save operational overhead and provide immutable data provenance records. It helps CTOs and AI researchers solve the billion-dollar problem of cost-effective, scalable, and accurate data labeling. Using blockchain to distribute data labeling tasks to >175k data labelers in 150+ countries is up to 8x faster and 10x cheaper than Web2 equivalents.
📈 Traction: 2.5Bn data points labeled with >97% accuracy. It is in the process of finalizing four new partnerships and has received soft commitments of $400k for investment.
💸 Stage: Raising $2-3 million.
$$ Max~Giammario,~Co-Founder~and~CEO $$
🤠 Founding Team: The next leap in AI is creating personal AI that connects with humans, with research focused on emotional AI through a PhD collaboration with NTU.
🔍 What it does: Kindred is Building Pal, A Next-Generation Platform that Redefines Human-AI Interaction.
💡 Pitch: MetaPals has rebranded as Kindred and is now positioned to revolutionize human-AI interaction. Kindred is poised for a much larger funding round as it embarks on its next phase of growth.
Kindred is building Pal, a next-generation platform that redefines human-AI interaction. By combining an in-house premium avatar system, a third-party developer ecosystem, and a vision to create a dynamic creators' economy where IP can be monetized, Kindred aims to capture a substantial share of the $190B AI market by 2025. Backed by partnerships with leading global IPs in both Web2 and Web3, Kindred outperforms key industry benchmarks, tripling session times and surpassing the retention rates of major competitors like Character.ai.
📈 Traction: 55K+ users, high retention rates, successful NFT launches.
💸 Stage: Raising $1 million.
$$ Tsung~Hung,~Co-Founder $$