Hot Off the AI Furnace 🧨🔥 - September 11

Less than 7️⃣ days left, Panel Reveals, Volunteers, Events and Updates

A newsletter for The AI Furnace Community.

 Hot Off The Furnace 🔥

  • Limited time offer for our community members

  • Panel Reveals 🎉 Investing at the Frontier and Trends in Language Models

  • Volunteering opportunities for the Hot 100 Conference

  • The AI Hot 100 Conference

  • Upcoming Events

Limited time offer for our community members — 50% off for the next 48 hours

Hey fam, we are 1 week away from the conference and we’re so excited to bring together 100 of the hottest startups from across the East Coast for an incredible day of AI innovation, lightning discussions, and networking with the largest VC funds in the world.

We’d love to reward you all for your support throughout the year. Sharing a special discount for general admission tickets, so we can get you to the conference. Use promo code: ‘50OFFNOW’

Confirmed VC funds attending:

  • a16z

  • Eniac Ventures

  • Flybridge Capital

  • Gradient Ventures

  • Red Sea Ventures

  • M13

  • + many more

Get in front of well-funded and fast-growing AI startups:

  • 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)

  • Nexa AI (raised $8.75M from Fusion Fund)

  • Metaphysic (raised $7.5M from Section 32 and 8VC)

  • + More

In case you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, grab one while you can! Use code ‘50OFFNOW’ to get 50% off general admission tickets.

Let’s put NYC on the Map and overtake SF as the world’s top AI hub 🎯

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They’ve already confirmed some amazing AI startups and top-tier VCs including @andreesenhorowitz, @mavenagi, @gradientventures, @arceeai, and many more...

If you’re looking for a job, trying to fundraise, or looking to back the next AI unicorn, this is the place to go.

Use my discount code ‘50OFFNOW’ to get 50% off your general admission ticket for the next 48 hours. Additional discounts are available for founders, job seekers, and students.

Grab your ticket today 👉 aifurnace.co

Panel Reveals 🪄🎩

Investing at the Frontier: The Hidden of AI

Join us on September 18th to learn from a16z, Link Ventures, and Eniac Ventures about where they are investing in AI today. Get front-row seats to how investors think, which trends they are backing, and what they look for in founders.

Curious to see where language models are headed? Are LLMs one size fits all? Join us on September 18th, to learn more about the Trends Changing the Face of Language Models from Santanu Bhattacharya (MIT Media Lab), Brian Benedict (Arcee AI), and Andriy Mulyar (Nomic AI)

🤖 Volunteers Needed for The AI Hot 100 Conference 🚀 Are you a Student & Interested in Volunteering?

The AI Furnace is on the lookout for talented students to volunteer at the conference on September 18th in NYC. It’s your chance to be part of a day filled with cutting-edge discussions, networking and demo’s. Open to students only.

Benefits include:

  • Being in the room with the hottest AI founders, VCs, executives and researchers;

  • Networking with AI experts and enthusiasts;

  • Free access to insightful sessions and workshops;

  • Complimentary meals and exclusive event merchandise.

👉 Fill in this form to be considered.

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% off of general admission. Here’s the code once again: ‘50OFFNOW’

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)

  • Seek AI (raised $10.5M from Conviction and Battery Ventures)

  • VoyceMe (raised $10M from Redpoint Ventures)

  • LastMile AI (raised $10M from Gradient Ventures)

  • Nexa AI (raised $8.75M from Fusion Fund)

  • Metaphysic (raised $7.5M from Section 32 and 8VC)

  • Laws of Motion (raised $6.5M from Corazon Capital and Leadout Ventures)

  • Piramidal (YC W24, raised $6M from Lionheart Ventures)

  • TextQL (raised $4.1M from Neo and DCM)

  • +More

We’ll have some dope AI VCs joining including:

  • A16z

  • Lerer Hippeau

  • Gradient Ventures

  • Flybridge

  • Eniac Ventures

  • M13

  • Firstmark

  • Creative Capital

  • Link Ventures

  • IBM Ventures

  • Left Lane Capital

  • True Ventures

  • Red Sea Ventures

  • Communitas Capital

  • Apprentis Ventures

  • +More

📢 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).