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Hot Off the AI Furnace 🧨🔥 - November 18, 2024
The AI Hot 100 Conference is coming to a new location, Boston AI Safety Summit, Upcoming events & more
Hamza from The AI Furnace & Angela from The AI Furnace 🧨🔥
November 18, 2024
A newsletter for The AI Furnace Community.
We Killed The AI Hot 💯 Conference (New York City Edition) ✅ We’re Headed to a New City Next…Can You Guess?
🚨 AFTER SELLING OUT IN NEW YORK, THE AI HOT 100 CONFERENCE IS COMING BACK BIGGER AND STRONGER! 🚨
On September 18th in NYC we brought together 100 of the Hottest Funded AI Startups on the East Coast curated by The AI Furnace. We connected them with 400 Investors, Founders, Corporate Leaders and Researchers for an explosive conference AND WE ARE LAUNCHING THIS CONFERENCE IN A NEW LOCATION. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS!
🤝 Made over 100+ Corporate to Startup introductions to discuss demos and potential pilots
🤝 Connected multiple Founders to Government Officials from NYCEDC
🤝 Had over 50+ Venture Capital companies attend, a whopping $500M in AUM...to meet startups including: A16Z, Bessemer Venture Partners, Eniac, Flybridge, M13, NEA, Lerer Hippeua, Gradient Ventures, Link Ventures and more.
We can’t wait to curate 100 of the hottest AI startups in other regions and take the conference global. We’ll be announcing the next location soon 👀 so keep an eye out.
Check Out The AI Hot 100 Market Map
The AI Furnace put together the AI Hot 100 Report and Market Map (East Coast Edition). We curated this list from thousands of applications based on signals such as team, founder-market fit, revenue, customers, partners, investors and more. To see full report, access it here.
AI Hot 100 Market Map (East Coast Edition)
Some of the AI Startups that made it to the Hot 100 List which we curated and brought to the conference 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) + More.
Join us for our AI Privacy & Safety Night at MIT: Hear From the Viral Creators of the I-XRay Meta Glasses 🕶️
👉 Sign up here to hear from:
“Fireside Chat: How to Not Build Skynet” with Caine Ardayfio (Harvard student that built I-XRAY): we’ll be hearing from the controversial creator of the I-XRay Meta glasses which used facial recognition plus AI tooling to extract personal information of strangers and led to Meta banning. Caine will discuss the importance of privacy and why they pulled this stunt to bring awareness to the space
Demo’s from 3 AI startups focused on Trust & Safety: Sanctum AI (Your Private Sanctum for AI, on-device AI); Versara AI (Protect your web content from AI); Enkrypt AI (The world's most comprehensive AI security platform)
Thanks to our partners MIT Entrepreneurship Club (MEC) and Sanctum (the private AI platform that empowers users to engage securely with LLMs entirely on their local devices).
📢 Interested in sponsoring? Reach out to us at [email protected] to get your brand in front of thousands of AI entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, executives, and AI leaders.
Upcoming Events 📆
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We’ve had a number of 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).