Confusion of AI investment in the amount of $ 50 million, supporting early -stage startup
The AI Berplexity AI logo was shown on this illustration recorded on January 4. 2024.
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Bliece AI, a developer of popular artificial intelligence search engine, is close to collecting a $ 50 million risk fund focused on an early stage AI startups, CNBC found out.
The company will be an anchor investor in the Fund, but most capital comes from external partners, states a person familiar with a question that they asked not to be appointed because the information is confidential.
Two general fund partners also come from somewhere. They are Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, who operated the F7 Ventures Fund at an early stage, said that person. According to a submission With the DIP since October, I endured the Furplexity F7 to raise $ 50 million. Graziadei and Shevelenko were named as two general partners.
The confusion was in the midst of the generative ai boom, which began at the end of 2022. With the launch of Openai’s Chatgpt. CNBC reported in November that the company was in the latest phase of collecting $ 500 million in Financing at a value of $ 9 billion. Confusion is considered a potential competitor Google As more consumer addresses AI to search for information online.
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The company sees the potential advantage of investment when it comes to startups because approximately 80,000 developers are included in its network, so confusion gets visibility in who uses its application of applications (API) and who is most active in their consumption, said the person.
The founders and investors in Berplexity put money in the Fund, and part of the company’s obligations is in the form of shares, the source said.
– Samantha Subin CNBC has contributed to this report.
