Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.
Principal, Seed to Series B Venture Capital Investments
Caroline Rehfuss
Investor
Past deals in Machine Learning
Superb AI
Series C in 2024
Superb AI is a comprehensive training data platform that automates data preparation, facilitating rapid and systematic dataset creation and management. Founded in 2018 by a team of data scientists, academics, and machine learning engineers, the company focuses on transforming how organizations label, manage, curate, and deliver training data. With a strong foundation in computer vision and deep learning, supported by extensive academic research and numerous publications, Superb AI enables businesses to streamline their AI projects. The platform includes features for data annotation, curation, model training, and deployment, allowing companies to develop and implement computer vision applications more efficiently.
AIDIN ROBOTICS
Series B in 2024
AIDIN ROBOTICS is a developer of AI-driven sensors and robotic systems.
Vectara
Series A in 2024
Vectara is a provider of a generative AI product platform that enables the integration of advanced AI features into various applications. Its offering includes a serverless Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) API platform designed to embed generative AI functionality into chatbots and other products, relying on a robust hybrid-search core. This platform ensures accurate and contextually relevant responses, addressing critical challenges for enterprise adoption such as reducing hallucination, enhancing explainability, enforcing access control, and allowing real-time updates of knowledge. Vectara's technology also emphasizes data security and supports multilingual capabilities, making it suitable for a broad range of applications including conversational AI, question-answering, and semantic search. Through its innovative platform, Vectara helps businesses create effective AI-driven experiences while maintaining compliance with intellectual property and bias considerations.
Unify
Seed Round in 2024
Combine All Models for Faster, Cheaper, and Better Responses Than Any Single Model
Activeloop
Series A in 2024
Activeloop offers a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the management and scaling of data pipelines for machine learning applications. Their flagship product, Deep Lake, serves as a specialized database for artificial intelligence, optimized for deep learning and large language model applications. It allows users to store a variety of data types, including text, images, audio, and videos, in a single location, while providing capabilities such as data streaming, version control, and vector search. Deep Lake simplifies the deployment of enterprise-grade LLM-based products and integrates seamlessly with popular tools like LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is serverless and capable of handling datasets of any size, making it suitable for organizations working on complex machine learning projects. Activeloop counts notable companies such as Bayer Radiology and Matterport among its users. The founding team comprises individuals with backgrounds from prestigious institutions like Princeton and Stanford, along with experience from industry leaders like Google and Tesla.
Sahara AI
Seed Round in 2024
Sahara AI is a decentralized AI network that enables freely and securely deploying autonomous AI with a high-performance, privacy-first network. Its collaboration network helps individuals and businesses deploy personalized, autonomous AI. It also offers a permissionless and privacy-centric network that allows cross-agent communication, knowledge transfer, and capitalization between individuals.
Bria
Series A in 2024
Bria is a visual generative AI company that specializes in creating and modifying visual content through innovative technology. The company offers a Visual Gen AI Platform that provides AI teams access to complete source code and model weights, trained on licensed data. Bria's Visual Creation API Suite features over 30 specialized APIs for various tasks, including image generation and editing. Additionally, the company delivers tailored generation services that align AI models with specific brand assets, ensuring consistency in product imagery and supporting scalable marketing efforts. By addressing legal complexities, privacy issues, and the risks of misinformation, Bria combines authentic and synthetic content to enhance the creative capabilities of marketing teams, designers, and content creators.
SqueezeBits
Seed Round in 2024
SqueezeBits develops an ecosystem platform aimed at designing, training, and deploying compressed neural networks. The company specializes in compressing artificial intelligence models through advanced techniques such as quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and AutoML. This approach allows clients to access software stacks that facilitate the creation of energy-efficient, lightweight, and fast deep learning models, adaptable to a range of hardware platforms, from edge devices to cloud GPUs.
Twelve Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Twelve Labs specializes in a multimodal artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance video understanding across various applications. The platform enables businesses and developers to analyze video content by integrating visual and auditory data, facilitating the creation of intelligent video applications. It offers APIs for functions such as searching, generating, and classifying video content, allowing users to deploy solutions on any cloud, customize models, and fine-tune with their own data. Twelve Labs serves diverse industries, including technology, media, entertainment, and security, empowering clients to harness complex video information for a range of downstream tasks.
Inworld AI
Venture Round in 2023
Inworld AI is an AI framework powering massive consumer applications. Inworld is funded by VCs including Lightspeed, Stanford University, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Section 32, M12, Intel Capital, CRV, Bitkraft, and Meta, as well as a team of all-star angels including corporate executives, top VC funds' partners, scouts, and industry veterans.
Dynamo AI
Seed Round in 2022
DynamoFL empowers enterprises to deploy Gen AI solutions in a safe, private, and compliant manner. Our tools offer a scalable and efficient solution for defense against adversarial AI threats, ensuring the integrity and security of ML models throughout their lifecycle. Our suite of proactive AI model defense solutions can be deployed to both identify and remediate security and robustness risks in Generative AI systems. We enable organizations to deploy state-of-the-art LLMs on substantially cheaper hardware, even including CPU resources.
Quantum Machines
Series B in 2022
Quantum Machines is a start-up focused on creating advanced control and operation systems for quantum computers. The company develops next-generation quantum controllers that translate quantum algorithms into pulse sequences, allowing organizations from various sectors to execute complex quantum algorithms and experiments efficiently. Their approach combines classical engineering disciplines, including electrical, hardware, and software engineering, with quantum computing science and technology. By leveraging expertise in algorithmics, digital signal processing, RF microwave engineering, machine learning, and quantum physics, Quantum Machines aims to enhance the capabilities and accessibility of quantum computing.
DataGen
Series B in 2022
DataGen Technologies, founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing simulated data technology. This technology aims to provide scalable, bias-free, and automatically annotated datasets. By utilizing hyper-photorealistic imagery and advanced algorithms, DataGen generates high-variance datasets that meet diverse client needs. Their solutions enable organizations to simulate large-scale data efficiently, enhancing their ability to analyze and utilize information without the limitations associated with traditional data collection methods.
Mutable.ai
Venture Round in 2022
MutableAI is an artificial intelligence software development accelerator. Their recent advances in AI will unlock new ways of programming beyond the pre-AI stack that won't look like a traditional IDE or version control system.
Aporia
Series A in 2022
Aporia is an AI control platform that focuses on ensuring the privacy, security, and reliability of artificial intelligence applications for organizations ranging from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies. The platform provides robust guardrails that help mitigate issues such as hallucinations, data leakage, and prompt attacks in real time. Central to Aporia's offerings is Aporia Labs, a team of AI and cybersecurity experts dedicated to researching and developing advanced methods for identifying and addressing these challenges. In addition to its guardrails, Aporia's platform supports machine learning production monitoring, enabling data scientists to create, update, and maintain monitors that track performance issues and data drift, thereby building trust around machine learning models and accelerating their deployment.
Classiq
Series B in 2022
Classiq Technologies is a prominent quantum software company that offers a comprehensive software platform designed to facilitate quantum computing from algorithm design to execution. This platform includes an integrated development environment, compiler, and operating system, catering to developers of varying skill levels. Classiq's low-code development environment automates the quantum programming process, making it accessible to individuals with backgrounds in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and linear algebra, without the need for extensive knowledge of quantum hardware programming. The company collaborates with advanced computation hardware providers to deliver software compatible with quantum computers, high-performance computing systems, and quantum simulators. Supported by notable investors, Classiq's team of scientists and engineers embodies decades of expertise in quantum technologies, striving to democratize access to quantum computing and empower users to leverage its potential effectively.
Masterful AI
Seed Round in 2022
Masterful AI is the maker of SceneCraft, the Generative AI solution for ecommerce marketing. Our mission is to help every company look like they have a huge marketing budget, rolling up content ideation, creation, and publishing into an easy-to-use AI agent. Get on-brand product photos, videos, and copy generated automatically, customized for your target audiences.
OpenWeb
Series E in 2021
OpenWeb Ltd. is a company that operates an online social engagement platform aimed at enhancing dialogue and community interaction across various digital spaces. Established in 2012 and headquartered in New York with an additional office in Tel Aviv, OpenWeb provides tools for publishers to regain control over their audience and conversations by facilitating discussions directly on their platforms. The company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to promote healthy dialogue and reduce toxicity, thereby fostering vibrant and engaged communities. OpenWeb collaborates with over 700 leading publishers, supporting around 100 million active users each month. The platform includes features such as an admin dashboard for community management, conversation-based advertising solutions, and insights into first-party data, aiming to create sustainable relationships between brands and audiences while improving the overall quality of online conversations.
Deci AI
Series A in 2021
Deci AI Ltd. is a technology company based in Givatayim, Israel, founded in 2019. It specializes in developing a deep learning acceleration platform designed to enhance the performance of AI models. This platform enables AI developers to build, optimize, and deploy models more efficiently across various environments, including cloud, edge, and mobile. With Deci's technology, developers can achieve a significant improvement in inference performance—between three to fifteen times faster—while maintaining accuracy. The platform leverages Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC), which optimizes model architectures for specific hardware, thereby maximizing efficiency and reducing computational costs by up to 80%. Deci's innovations have led to impressive benchmarks, including an 11.8x speedup in inference on Intel CPUs, and the company has been recognized among the top 100 AI firms by CBInsights. Through its advanced solutions, Deci AI empowers developers to focus on creating impactful AI applications to address complex challenges.
Metrika
Series A in 2021
Metrika is a monitoring and analytics platform specializing in blockchain networks, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company offers a blockchain-based operational intelligence solution that provides visibility and actionable insights for decentralized systems. Metrika's platform is designed to monitor and analyze the performance of blockchain networks, identifying anomalies that may affect their operation. By addressing these issues, Metrika enables companies to enhance the reliability and performance of their blockchain systems, ultimately supporting their growth on a global scale.
Marpipe
Series A in 2021
Marpipe, Inc. is a technology company based in New York, founded in 2019, that specializes in multivariate creative testing for brands and agencies. Its AI-driven platform automates the creative testing process by generating and evaluating various creative variables that influence advertising performance. By leveraging data science and artificial intelligence, Marpipe helps clients identify which creative elements resonate with their audiences and which do not. This enables businesses to make informed, data-driven decisions regarding their visual strategies for direct-to-consumer products and services, ultimately enhancing marketing effectiveness.
Quantum Machines
Series B in 2021
Quantum Machines is a start-up focused on creating advanced control and operation systems for quantum computers. The company develops next-generation quantum controllers that translate quantum algorithms into pulse sequences, allowing organizations from various sectors to execute complex quantum algorithms and experiments efficiently. Their approach combines classical engineering disciplines, including electrical, hardware, and software engineering, with quantum computing science and technology. By leveraging expertise in algorithmics, digital signal processing, RF microwave engineering, machine learning, and quantum physics, Quantum Machines aims to enhance the capabilities and accessibility of quantum computing.
Einblick
Seed Round in 2020
Einblick is a visual data computing platform that enables organizations to analyze historical data, forecast future trends, and make informed data-driven decisions. The platform merges traditional data science notebooks with modern collaborative tools, offering a graphical interface that facilitates interactive model building and deployment. This touch-enabled environment allows data scientists to efficiently create high-performance models, which can be seamlessly shared with decision-makers for enhanced collaboration. Einblick's diverse clientele includes notable entities such as a prominent luxury German car manufacturer, DARPA, and a major internet service provider, showcasing its broad applicability across various industries.
Anodot
Series C in 2020
Anodot Ltd. is a provider of a SaaS-based automated business analytics and anomaly detection platform that specializes in identifying and analyzing data anomalies in real-time. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, with additional offices in London and Sydney, Anodot’s platform utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms to continuously monitor a wide range of business parameters, allowing for the swift detection of outliers and the generation of actionable insights. This capability enables data-centric companies across various industries, including eCommerce, fintech, and ad tech, to make informed decisions quickly, thereby reducing operational costs and enhancing customer experiences. Anodot's solutions are offered through a network of global resellers, and the company has established strategic collaborations to further enhance its service offerings.
DiscreetAI
Pre Seed Round in 2019
DiscreetAI provides a decentralized machine learning platform that focuses on privacy-preserving technology for mobile, web, and server applications. The company's open-source developer tools allow organizations to train machine learning models without compromising the privacy and security of sensitive data. By ensuring that data remains on the host during the training process, DiscreetAI enables the use of larger datasets than traditional centralized methods would allow. This approach not only enhances compliance with data protection regulations but also empowers developers to create secure online marketplaces for big data transactions. DiscreetAI serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, helping them address complex real-world challenges through innovative machine learning solutions.
Unbabel
Series C in 2019
Unbabel Inc. specializes in providing online translation services that facilitate communication between businesses and their customers in multiple languages. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and Lisbon, the company integrates machine translation technology with a network of human editors. This approach allows Unbabel to deliver high-quality translations for user-generated content, such as emails and chats, across various digital channels. By leveraging artificial intelligence and a global community of bilingual translators, Unbabel ensures that enterprises can offer prompt and authentic translations, thereby enhancing customer service and enabling businesses to effectively engage with a diverse, international audience.
Juvo
Corporate Round in 2018
Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-based relationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
BentoML
Seed Round in 2018
BentoML is a platform designed to assist machine learning teams in deploying and serving their models as prediction services. It provides an inference platform that enables organizations to build scalable AI systems with speed and flexibility. By allowing deployment on-premises or across various cloud environments, BentoML facilitates quicker iterations and cost-effective scaling. Its services are particularly beneficial for sectors such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, helping these industries reduce costs, minimize operational risks, and enhance efficiency in their operations.
Unbabel
Series B in 2018
Unbabel Inc. specializes in providing online translation services that facilitate communication between businesses and their customers in multiple languages. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and Lisbon, the company integrates machine translation technology with a network of human editors. This approach allows Unbabel to deliver high-quality translations for user-generated content, such as emails and chats, across various digital channels. By leveraging artificial intelligence and a global community of bilingual translators, Unbabel ensures that enterprises can offer prompt and authentic translations, thereby enhancing customer service and enabling businesses to effectively engage with a diverse, international audience.
Vidrovr
Seed Round in 2017
Vidrovr Inc. offers a video processing platform that organizes and enhances video content through advanced multimodal computer vision and machine learning technologies. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company specializes in indexing, tagging, and understanding video, allowing users to search and retrieve specific content within videos. Vidrovr's systems cater to various domains, including sports, government, and media, and provide tools such as a Metadata API for seamless integration and hyper-searchable video indexing. Additionally, the platform features a Clip Generator that produces smaller, social media-ready video clips, facilitating direct interaction with multimedia content and improving content management efficiency.
Vidrovr
Convertible Note in 2017
Vidrovr Inc. offers a video processing platform that organizes and enhances video content through advanced multimodal computer vision and machine learning technologies. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company specializes in indexing, tagging, and understanding video, allowing users to search and retrieve specific content within videos. Vidrovr's systems cater to various domains, including sports, government, and media, and provide tools such as a Metadata API for seamless integration and hyper-searchable video indexing. Additionally, the platform features a Clip Generator that produces smaller, social media-ready video clips, facilitating direct interaction with multimedia content and improving content management efficiency.
Juvo
Series B in 2017
Juvo was founded with an overarching vision: to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy, yet financially excluded. In partnership with mobile network operators, Juvo’s proprietary Identity Scoring technology uses data science, machine learning and game mechanics to create an identity-based relationship with anonymous prepaid users, opening up access to otherwise unattainable mobile financial services. Juvo is a privately held company backed by global business leaders and luminaries in the world of tech, mobile and finance. Its executive team comprises accomplished industry leaders across the data science, consumer internet, financial services and mobile telecom fields.
Vicarious
Series C in 2017
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix. The company develops neuro and cognitive science-based technologies aimed at creating general intelligence for robots by mimicking the functions of the human brain. Its innovative algorithmic architecture seeks to achieve human-level intelligence in areas such as vision, language, and motor control. Vicarious focuses on visual perception challenges, including recognition, segmentation, and scene parsing. This technology enables robot manufacturers to produce robots with enhanced intelligence and improved task efficiency.
Bonsai
Series A in 2017
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.
Gyroscope Software
Seed Round in 2017
Gyroscope Software offers developer-friendly tools designed to enhance user growth and retention, while improving overall user satisfaction and revenue for companies. Leveraging extensive expertise in large-scale data processing and predictive systems, Gyroscope has created intuitive tools that integrate advanced machine learning techniques with efficient systems programming. These tools empower developers to build applications that can learn from user behavior and respond accordingly, eliminating the need for specialized knowledge in data science or growth strategies. The company focuses on providing solutions that enable game developers to create adaptive and personalized gaming experiences, ultimately increasing engagement and enjoyment for players.
FloydHub
Seed Round in 2017
FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your Deep Learning models in the cloud. Start running your first machine learning project in less than 30 seconds! FloydHub takes care of the infrastructure grunt work so you can focus on the core of your problem.
Vicarious
Convertible Note in 2015
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix. The company develops neuro and cognitive science-based technologies aimed at creating general intelligence for robots by mimicking the functions of the human brain. Its innovative algorithmic architecture seeks to achieve human-level intelligence in areas such as vision, language, and motor control. Vicarious focuses on visual perception challenges, including recognition, segmentation, and scene parsing. This technology enables robot manufacturers to produce robots with enhanced intelligence and improved task efficiency.
Kngine
Venture Round in 2014
Kngine is an intelligent engine that answers naturally posed factual questions and performs actions. Kngine understands what users are actually seeking and provides them with meaningful results. Kngine is modeled after the 2 most predominate approaches in AI: Deep Learning and Knowledge-based. Kngine has built a technology that understands natural language. When Kngine crawls the web, it doesn't just index pages, it extract the factual information from every sentence to build/update our knowledge graph. Also Kngine utilize the power of deep learning, big-data and unsupervised learning to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy. To learn more about Kngine, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmwZ9bsgVTM.
Classiq
Classiq Technologies is a prominent quantum software company that offers a comprehensive software platform designed to facilitate quantum computing from algorithm design to execution. This platform includes an integrated development environment, compiler, and operating system, catering to developers of varying skill levels. Classiq's low-code development environment automates the quantum programming process, making it accessible to individuals with backgrounds in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and linear algebra, without the need for extensive knowledge of quantum hardware programming. The company collaborates with advanced computation hardware providers to deliver software compatible with quantum computers, high-performance computing systems, and quantum simulators. Supported by notable investors, Classiq's team of scientists and engineers embodies decades of expertise in quantum technologies, striving to democratize access to quantum computing and empower users to leverage its potential effectively.
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