【Tech Events in SF Bay Area from 11/9 to 11/23】Highlights of the Week 🗞
I have summarized the 103 Tech Events in SF from 11/9 to 11/23 in Air Table, hope its useful!
👉Event Lists (There are tabs for AI events,VC and Investor events and Hackathon)
- 39 Ai Event
- 7 VCs & investors Event
- 5 Hackathon Event
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Highlights of the Week 🗞
Panjaya, a stealth AI video dubbing startup, has emerged with $9.5 million in funding to transform video translation.
BodyTalk offers hyperrealistic AI-based video dubbing in 29 languages
Creates complete package: voice recreation + lip sync + body movement modification
Near real-time processing (minutes per video)
Uses proprietary lip sync engine and AI models
TED reports 115% increase in views for dubbed content using Panjaya
Current clients include JFrog and TED organization
Processing takes only minutes compared to traditional dubbing
CEO: Guy Piekarz (sold previous startup Matcha to Apple)
Founders: Hilik Shani and Ariel Shalom (ex-Israeli government deep learning specialists)
Targeting B2B market exclusively
Focus on sports, education, marketing, and healthcare sectors
Built-in safeguards to prevent misuse and deepfake concerns
Anysphere, the company behind AI coding assistant Cursor, is experiencing a bidding war from major VCs amid explosive growth.
Revenue growth from $4M ARR in April to $4M monthly as of October 2024
Current valuation offers reaching $2.5B, up from $1.5B last week
Previous valuation was $400M four months ago with $60M Series A round
Major investors in bidding war include Benchmark, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Thrive
Company raised $8M seed round led by OpenAI's Startup Fund
Founded in 2022 by MIT students: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger
Graduated from OpenAI's accelerator program as most prominent graduate
Previous investors include Patrick Collison (Stripe co-founder), Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder)
Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering has emerged from stealth with $2 million in pre-seed funding to restore seagrass populations using autonomous robots.
Developed robot that speeds up seagrass restoration 100x faster than manual planting
Nearly $1M in revenue from private companies and government organizations
$2M pre-seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital with Superorganism and ReGen Ventures
Founded in early 2024 by Jamie Wedderburn (CTO), Akhil Voorakkara (CEO), Colm O'Brien, and Will O'Brien
Currently partnered with government agencies in Florida and Australia
Seagrass impact: occupies 0.1% of ocean floor but vital for marine ecosystems
Global seagrass meadows reducing 7% annually
New capability being tested: harvesting and replanting seeds automatically
Future plans include expanding into coastal management and security
Team of five planning to add engineers and go-to-market personnel
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