fonio.ai Raises $17.0M Seed Round

Silo Markets

Silo is the first platform where customers can earn points on their stocks, ETFs, and bonds. Financial institutions have long been incentivized to profit off your investments rather than creating an environment where you can grow your income for the long term. Invest in Stocks, ETFs, Corporate Bonds, and Government Bonds through our iOS or web platform and enjoy $500K SIPC and $2.5M FDIC insurance. Become a member today and earn up to $5,000 on your portfolio All investing involves risk. See our disclosures here: https://www.silomarkets.com/legal/marketing-disclosures Find more posts on Twitter: https://x.com/silomarkets

BeatpulseLabs

We create high-fidelity custom multimedia AI training datasets for Enterprise clients. The BeatpulseLabs platform effectively accumulates and harnesses human intelligence, judgement and taste and converts it into actionable signals for the machine layer. BeatpulseLabs was founded on a simple observation. Safe AI adoption in the enterprise requires a different approach to training data. Datasets need to be purpose-built and high-fidelity. They need to be based on custom annotation schemas and continuous annotator feedback loops should be baseline, not an option. Background: The first wave of AI was built on public datasets, labelled at scale by generalists working on rigid schemas. This worked well for the multi-purpose models of the past. But enterprise AI deployment requires something different. Custom annotation environments. Domain experts who understand the data they are working with. Tailor-made datasets grounded in a company's own proprietary information. Low data drift. High fidelity. Schemas that adapt to each use case rather than forcing the use case to adapt to the schema. Proprietary Datasets: Beatpulse curates, retrieves, structures and labels vast amounts of high-quality, human-generated content that has never before been accessible to AI for training or inference. Our datasets are enriched with in-house metadata preparation and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) annotation. We focus on 4 key domains: Voice, Video, Music and Radar. 1M+ hours of video · 4M+ hours of editorial speech in 25+ languages · 850K+ music assets · +10TB of professionally labelled radar readings detecting UAVs and USVs.

Breaking Change

Breaking Change is a start‑up creating ambitious, simulation‑driven technology and experiences for core gamers. Our founding team—comprising industry and start‑up veterans—draws on deep simulation and visual computing expertise, cutting‑edge techniques and pipelines, and R&D partnerships, to craft deeply immersive, endlessly replayable titles. Proudly based in Wales, we’re committed to contributing to the region’s thriving creative sector.

Indigenius AI

AI = Afrikan Intelligence. Powering Afrika's boldest businesses and most visionary creators. Your home for real-time, multilingual voice AI agents that speak with soul.

Stears

Stears is a financial data and software company providing global professionals with data on private capital in Africa. For fund managers investing in Africa, Stears is the financial data provider that enhances your due diligence process. Unlike other data providers, Stears goes beyond data to provide deep insights and context based on knowledge of local markets and on-the-ground research teams.