Alinia AI, a New York-based alignment platform for generative AI, raised €2.2 million in pre-seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by Speedinvest and Precursor, with participation from KFund and notable angels including Clem Délangue & Thom Wolf (Hugging Face Co-Founders), Tom Preston (GitHub Co-Founder), Xavier Amatriain (Google Core AI VP), and Oriol Vinyals (Google DeepMind VP of Research).
Speedinvest is a venture capital fund with more than €1B to invest in pre-seed, Seed, and early-stage tech startups across Europe. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Vienna, Austria.
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware.
Alinia AI Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to hire additional talent to further develop its platform to create an end-to-end alignment process focused on safety and regulatory requirements.
About Alinia AI
Founded in 2023 by Ariadna Font Llitjós and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, Alinia AI provides an alignment platform for generative AI. The company focuses on enabling companies’ safe and controlled deployment of generative AI, guided by their policies and business preferences. Their platform aims to offer integral AI governance solutions, including evaluation, real-time monitoring, optimization techniques, and documentation features. The company is on a mission to make the deployment of generative AI safer, more effective, and accessible for critical business scenarios.
Funding Details
Company: Alinia AI, Inc.
Raised: €2.2M
Round: Pre-Seed Round
Funding Month: June 2024
Lead Investors: Speedinvest, Precursor
Additional Investors: KFund, Clem Délangue & Thom Wolf, Tom Preston, Xavier Amatriain, Oriol Vinyals
Company Website: https://alinia.ai/
Software Category: Gen AI Alignment
Source: https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/06/barcelona-based-alinia-raises-e2-2-million-pre-seed-to-enable-safe-deployment-of-genai/