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      • pi & Portfolio in the News

        pi Ventures Seed Investment in Silence Laboratories

        Decentralized Security Provider

        Decentralized security provider, Silence Laboratories has raised $1.7M in seed funding led by pi Ventures along with participation from web3 centric funds such as imToken ventures and prominent angels.

        pi Ventures Seed Investment in Preimage

        3D Reconstruction Platform

        Photogrammetry startup, Preimage, has raised $1.7m in seed funding led by pi Ventures along with participation from Better Capital, Java Capital, and global angel investors.

        pi Ventures Seed Investment in OttonomyIO

        Fully Autonmous Delivery Robots

        Robotics startup, Ottonomy, has raised $3.3m in seed funding led by pi Ventures along with participation from other global investors like Connetic Ventures and Branded Hospitality Ventures.

         

        Wysa raises Series B funding

        AI for Mental Health

        Mental health startup, Wysa, has raised $20m in Series B funding from HealthQuad, with participation from British International Investment.

        pi Ventures announces the first close of Fund II at $40m

        Strong participation from existing and new LPs

        Fund II will look at companies focused on disruptive AI and other forms of Deep Tech across sectors including but not limited to Blockchain, Spacetech, Biotech, Material Science, etc. Through a corpus that is 3x as large as Fund I, we will aim to go deeper in portfolio winners in subsequent rounds.

        Pixis raises $100m Series C from Softbank, GA, existing investors

        AI for Marketing Automation

        Pixis is a no code AI platform for fully automated creative generation and targeted marketing campaigns to achieve significant marketing RoI for its customers currently across India, NA, and EU.

        pi Ventures launches Fund 2 with investment in immunitoAI

        AI for Antibody Discovery & Screening

        immunitoAI is developing an AI-powered platform for antibody discovery and screening. The platform screens and ranks the best antibody candidates for a given target/antigen. With this technology, the discovery process can be made 2x more efficient while improving the success rate.

        pi Ventures co-leads $4.4m Series A investment in Ai Palette

        Ai Palette predicts trends for F&B companies

        Ai Palette's Foresight Engine uses sophisticated NLP models and image recognition trained on F&B datasets to deliver significant product innovation time and cost savings for clients.

        pi Ventures leads seed round of $873k in Insane AI

        Insane AI is an AI powered Fitness app

        Insane AI is an AI powered fitness app which leverages computer vision on the mobile phone to create personalized workouts at home. It makes workouts fun and engaging using immersive gamification routines.

        pi Ventures launches its second fund

        Already started investing out of the second fund

        pi Ventures will continue to back companies, across a wide range of sectors, that solve large global problems on the back of technology.

        pi Ventures gets SEBI nod to launch its second fund

        Early-stage venture capital fund that backs AI and deep tech startups, has received approval from markets regulator to raise a $100m venture fund

        "I firmly believe that in the next 10-15 years, India can become a DeepTech nation and we at pi will do our best to put India on the DeepTech innovation map of the world" - says Manish Singhal

        pi Ventures' Seed Investment in LimeChat

        LimeChat is an AI chatbot for Commerce

        LimeChat was founded in 2020 amid a pandemic-induced surge in adoption of e-commerce in India. The chatbot offers conversational experiences to customers on platforms including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

        Google's Assistant Fund invests in Wysa

        Wysa is an AI based mental wellness startup

        Google, via its assistant investment program, has invested an undisclosed amount in Wysa, the AI-based Indian mental health startup, marking the fund’s first investment in Asia.

        The Economic Times

        Agnikul fires world’s first fully 3D printed rocket engine

        The Indian space startup has successfully fired its higher stage semi-cryogenic rocket engine called Agnilet

        The rocket engine is capable of carrying up to 100 kilos to low earth orbit (LEO), which is around 700 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.

        Venture investing is moving from a market share led thesis to an IP/product led thesis

        Says Manish Singhal in a candid interview with ET

        In an e-mail interview Manish Singhal, founding partner of pi Ventures, discusses the funds priorities, why it's looking at newer areas like space tech, exits and other aspects.

      • Are we at the AI inflection point 2.0?

        With the Covid tailwinds, is AI at its second inflection point

        In the past six months, the world as we know it has been upended. While the jury is out on how it the Covid-19 pandemic will end and what aspects of life will change forever, there are a few things we know for certain that are going to be different in the new world we are heading into.

        The Economic Times

        pi Ventures achieves final close at 225 CR INR

        CDC, IFC, SIDBI, Sunil Kant Munjal, EDF among major contributors

        Artificial intelligence and IoT-focused early stage venture fund pi Ventures has achieved the final close of its INR 195CR fund at INR 225Cr.

        Products that don't use AI will die a natural death

        AI is becoming the big disruptive force across industries

        In mid-2016, Manish Singhal and Umakant Soni, both entrepreneurs in previous avatars, set up pi Ventures to invest in early-stage startups that use Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to solve problems across a range of sectors.

        An AI pathologist bags India’s biggest funding in healthcare

        Deep learning to transform pathology

        Today SigTuple, which uses computer vision and artificial intelligence for diagnosis, announced series A funding of US$5.8 million. This is the largest investment in a healthcare AI startup out of India. It will help SigTuple scale up and go global.

         

        Accel Partners led the round. Other investors include IDG Ventures India, pi Ventures, Axilor Ventures, and Endiya Partners. Solid backing for the Bangalore-based startup from marquee investors signals the arrival of Indian AI on the world stage.

        What I’ve learned from interacting with more than 100 AI startups​

        Deep learnings for AI startups

        Artificial intelligence is getting a lot of attention these days from startups and investors alike. Since pi Ventures is a fund focused on supporting applied AI companies, we meet quite a few entrepreneurs every week who are building companies in the field. Interacting with these startups has been a very enlightening journey for us. Here are some lessons which may be useful for folks wanting to venture out into AI.

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