ENTERPRISE 4.0 | Q2 2022
The BGV Beat
Ethical AI specialist Anna Fellander provides a European perspective on Enterprise AI risk and incoming regulations from Brussels.
The deployment of AI systems in the highly regualted healthcare space serves as a beacon call to other industries that are poised to follow suit.
The Ethics Maturity Continuum helps identify strengths, weaknesses and practical steps startups can take to address AI governance and data privacy challenges.
Top CVCs discuss how they integrate Ethical AI into their screening processes, their investment philosophies and their board rooms.
Sweden-based Anch.ai, a startup that offers a platform to accelerate responsible AI adoption within enterprises, announced it has raised seed funding from Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV). The company plans to use the round, which also saw participation from Terrain Invest, Magnus Rausing, Kent Janér, and Fredrik Andersson, to further develop its horizontally integrated solution for ethical AI governance and draw more customers.
BoostUp.ai, which provides revenue operations and intelligence platform to enterprises, has raised $28.5 million in a series B round of funding. With this round, BoostUp.ai plans to drive innovation in forecasting capabilities, revenue BI and mobile collaboration as well as expand integrations, GTM & OEM partnerships, and enterprise solution readiness. The round takes the total capital raised by the company to over $40 million.
ESW, the world’s leading global direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce company, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Scalefast, a Los Angeles–based, end-to-end ecommerce solution provider. Subject to customary approvals, the transaction is expected to close by mid-year 2022.
The company also announced that Scalefast founders, CEO Nicolas Stehle, CTO Frédéric Bocquet, and CMO Olivier Schott, will join the ESW senior leadership team.
Zelros introduced an open-source ethical AI standard while offering hyper-personalized insurance to over 250M policy holders.
Snorkel provides companies with programmatic control of their data so they can implement and integrate trustworthy AI into critical systems.
Anch offers the world’s first ethical AI governance platform to help companies screen, assess, mitigate, audit and report on key risk areas.
Evinced leverages AI to weave accessibility into all facets of software development, from design and development to testing and monitoring.
The Ethical AI Database project (EAIDB) spotlights a nascent and otherwise opaque ecosystem of startups that are geared towards shifting the arc of AI innovation towards ethical best practices, transparency and accountability. EAIDB, developed in partnership with the Ethical AI Governance Group, presents an in-depth market study of a burgeoning ethical AI startup landscape geared towards the adoption of responsible AI development, deployment and governance.