Hot Off the AI Furnace 🧨🔥 - September 6

Hot 100 Agenda Drop 🎤, VoyceMe Showcase, Volunteers, Events and Updates

A newsletter for The AI Furnace Community.

 Hot Off The Furnace 🔥

  • Hot 100 Conference Agenda Reveal

  • Limited Ticket Drop 🎉 Discounts for Founders, Students, Folks In Transition

  • Volunteering opportunities for the Hot 100 Conference

  • Voycme Anime Showcase 🎬

  • The AI Hot 100 Conference

  • Upcoming Events

The AI Hot 100 Conference Agenda đź“ť

Hey fam 👋…We are less than 2 weeks away from the conference and we are officially droppin’ our AI Hot 100 conference agenda.

Get ready for some…

  • Amazing kick-ass demos from companies that are changing the face of movie actors on screen, manga creation, fashion sizing, brain diagnosis and the Best of the Hot 100

  • Lightning talks about the latest trends in AI including small language models, on device agents, open source, RAG and more

  • Learnings from top tier AI investors backing the change makers (a16z, Lerer Hippeau, Gradient Ventures, M13, etc)

  • Founder/Funder Mixers for those raising or deploying $$

  • An AI Career Fair for those looking for new opportunities from the Hot 100 startups

  • + more!

Here’s what we have in store, but for the latest details check out our website

We’ve cooked up an amazing day and can’t wait to see you all there.

In case you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, grab one while you can!

Limited Ticket Drop 🎟️ Discounted tix for Founders, Students and Those In-Transition

We’ve been getting requests from folks from all sorts of backgrounds to attend our conference, so we’ve decided to drop a limited quantity of discounted tickets to get more folks in the community to join…till supply lasts!

  • Founders âś¨ We gotchu…we’ve created a $150/ticket to attend. This is great for founders looking to network and fundraise this fall as we will be having top AI investors join including a16z, Lerer Hippeau, Gradient Ventures, Eniac, Flybridge, and more attending as well as founders that are further ahead (raised up to $30M)

  • Students âś¨ We’ve setup a discounted ticket for you to attend and are putting together a brand spanking new…AI Career Fair with the AI Hot 100 startups. If you are looking for your next F/T or internship opportunity, this is one event you won’t want to miss!

  • Folks in Transition âś¨ We’ve been in your shoes before, so we’re offering discounted tickets so that you can attend. This event is great to understand the latest trends in AI for career development, see some cool tech, and to network/scope out job opportunities available at the Hot 100 Startups via our AI Career Fair.

🤖 Volunteers Needed for The AI Hot 100 Conference 🚀 Are you a Student & Interesting 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.

🤯 Mindblowing Demos Being Shown at The AI Hot 100 Conference: VoyceMe

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard of image generation tools like midjourney, DALL-E and Leonardo AI. But have you heard of VoyceMe? They are using ethical AI to disrupt the $100B+ market for anime, manga and webtoons — As a HUGE Sailor Moon fan (speaking for myself, Angela) and Attack on Titan Fan (speaking for Hamza), we’re nerding out…hard…about the opportunities this will create in the market and the human creativity & storytelling this will unlock.

The stats don’t lie either…VoyceMe has over 8M monthly visits and an increase in readership of over 1,000% since 2023. They just closed a $10M funding round led by Redpoint Ventures.

Are you as excited about this as we are?! We’re bringing this tech LIVE and IN-PERSON on September 18th, where the VoyceMe team will be showcasing their tech and discussing how they work with creators to monetize their content and foster deeper connections with fans through robust social features.

Check out their latest vid on Youtube, which shows some of the dope anime created on their platform 👇

VoyceMe is one of the Hot 100 startups selected by The AI Furnace to attend The AI Hot 100 Conference where they’ll be showcasing their tech. Get ready to see more mind blowing tech like this at the event! 🤯

Want to see VoyceMe’s tech live in action? Come to The AI Hot 100 Conference where they’ll be showcasing how it works.

About The AI Hot đź’Ż 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 25% off of general admission. Note this is only for GA tickets only.

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.

đź“Ł 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 📆

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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).