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Hot Off the AI Furnace 🧨🔥 - August 12
LIVE in Seattle 🚀, Sheila Marcelo Spotlight, Events and Updates
Hamza from The AI Furnace & Angela from The AI Furnace 🧨🔥
August 12, 2024
A newsletter for The AI Furnace Community.
Hot Off The Furnace 🔥
We’re LIVE in Seattle baby!
Sheila Marcelo Spotlight
👋 Hey fam
Last week we launched The AI Furnace to our 6th city…Seattle!
Why did we decide to open there? We love the city’s proximity to big tech and the crazy AI founder talent taking the leap into AI startups. We’re looking forward to hosting monthly events to grow the AI startup ecosystem out there. Check out pics from last week — we had over 75+ founders + researchers get together!
🔦 The AI Hot 100 Spotlight: Sheila Marcelo
This week we’re going to be spotlighting Sheila Marcelo, the incredible founder of Care.com and Ohai.ai — one of our speakers for The AI Hot 100 Conference.
Why we’re huge fans of Sheila:
Sheila founded Care.com in 2006 and took it public in 2014, before selling it to IAC in early 2020 — She’s a huge inspiration to us both as a Power Woman in Tech and as a minority! (especially to Furnace Co-Founder Angela Mascarenas)
Sheila is currently the Founder and CEO of Ohai.ai, a cutting edge technology startup leveraging generative AI to improve the lives of families. Ohai AI raised $6M from Eniac Ventures and LifeX Ventures — We love Ohai AI’s focus on helping families become more efficient, an area that we think is a HUGE market and highly underserved.
Interested in learning why she chose to embark on a new adventure instead of initially planning to retire? Check out her latest talk at the Makers Conference.
Want to see Sheila Marcelo in action? Come to The AI Hot 100 Conference where she’ll be speaking LIVE and IN-PERSON.
About The AI Hot 💯 Conference
September 18th. NYC.
The Who’s Who of Early Stage AI. 100 of the Hottest Funded Startups in the World, All in One Place. 500+ Investors, Founders, Corporate Leaders and Researchers.
Promo Code✨ For our loyal community, we are offering a $50 discount for our valued newsletter followers.
Promo code is FURNACEMEMBER
Make sure to get yours here!
Some of the AI Startups we’re bringing together for this incredible event include:
Maven AGI (raised $28M from M13)
Arcee.ai (raised $29M from Emergence)
Reality Defender (raised $15M from DCVC)
LastMile AI (raised $10M from Gradient Ventures)
Piramidal (YC W24, raised $6M from Lionheart Ventures)
+More
We’ll have some dope AI VCs joining including:
Flybridge
Eniac Ventures
M13
Link Ventures
IBM Ventures
Apprentis Ventures
Left Lane Capital
+More
Thanks to our sponsors:
NEAR Foundation (Official Platinum Sponsor), Fidelity Private Shares (Silver Sponsor) and Civic Hall (Silver Sponsor).
📢 Interested in sponsoring The AI Hot 100 Conference? Reach out to us at [email protected] to get your brand in front of 500+ AI entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, executives and AI leaders.
📣 Are you creating the next big AI company or know of anyone who is? Apply here to be part of the AI Hot 100 today!
Upcoming Events 📆
Need help with your startup or stealth project? 🙋♂️🙋♀️
We’ve recently had numerous founders reach out for GTM/Marketing, Product, Legal and Recruitment support. We’ve decided to accept some select consulting projects. If interested, reach out to [email protected].
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About the AI Furnace Community
The AI Furnace is a global network of 15,000+ AI founders, developers and researchers. It was started by Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, AI founders from NYC and London who started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco).