StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 117 ImagePerfector is a digital imaging company which is developing a voice-recognition driven image-editing algorithm for use by the general public. The AI has the typical features of an image-editing programme, such as Photoshop, but relies on verbal commands and finger contact on a touchscreen to manipulate an image. The algorithm also uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to synthesise elements of images from scratch where stock image databases cannot provide such or where there are copyright restrictions on the use of existing images. CEO QUOTE "Using ImagePerfector is like having a virtual digital assistant. All it takes is give commands and point with your finger on the touchscreen: 'Put an Emirates plane in the sky here. Paintbrush this cloud. Place the Statue of Liberty in the middle of the lake.' And voila! Here is your perfect image." - said company founder and CEO Imogen Perfetto. Image manipulated with Photoshop (image...

StartupRealities No 108 StealthDemystifier is an venture capital (VC) firm which invests in startups in stealth mode . The company has developed proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology to discover and analyse stealth-mode startups. The StealthDemystifier algorithm distinguishes between genuine stealth-mode companies and non-starters, based on analysing the CV and background of the entrepreneur, their network of contacts and social media presence. CEO QUOTE "There are four types of people who launch a stealth-mode startup or claim they are working in stealth mode: A) Experienced people who disappear from the radar screen and don't make any public statements for sometime. B) Serial entrepreneurs who announce that they are working on a startup in stealth mode and have solid rationale for doing this in stealth. C) Inexperienced entrepreneurs who believe they have something to hide but actually don't. D) People who are hiding the fact that they are unemploy...

StartupRealities No 65 MakeTalesMeet is a professional editing and storytelling company which uses both human editors and artificial intelligence (AI) to fix plot discontinuities and enhance the storyline in articles, books, TV and movie plots. PRODUCT VERSIONS The free basic version is an automated algorithm that quizzes the writer with the aim of teasing out new ideas. Potentially interesting objects or characters in the story are identified by the AI and the writer gets asked questions about them, separately or in pairs of two: " What happened to the penguin and the stone? Could they be doing something else or something differently? Could the two be connected? " The basic version also identifies similar items or stories in the body of existing literature and movies and makes suggestions on creating possible references to these in the writer's plot, which leads to recursion . The premium version of MakeTalesMeet involves human editors who review the suggestions o...

StartupRealities No 25 NameExclaim is a branding company that has developed an AI algorithm for product naming and company naming. The algorithm generates unique, novel and suitable names that always have two key elements: 1) CamelCasing of two meaningful words that describe or relate to the new product or company; 2) A rhyme or another type of assonance between the two words. CEO QUOTES "NameExclaim makes everybody's life so much easier. The algorithm would never suggest a name that is not unique," company founder and CEO Nona Anon said. "If a combination of words has already been registered as a website, Twitter account, company name or trademark anywhere in the world, the AI will simply hide it from the final shortlist of suggestions and save us the temptation. However, new names that have been mentioned online or in social media as hashtags are acceptable as long as no one has a claim on that name," Anon added. "Occasionally the algorithm go...