We invest in passionate entrepreneurs with technical experience and commercial capability, to find and filter only the best opportunities. We then dig in with a hands-on approach to guide Azafran’s portfolio companies towards our shared goals.
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Analogue Wake Word & Intelligent Sensory
Aspinity implements ML with analog circuitry, enabling an edge architecture that optimizes power and data handling in always-on, battery-powered sensing devices such as voice/sound wake-up, industrial machine health monitoring, and wearable health monitoring.
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The Leading Tech-Enabled Consumer Products Platform
Aterian’s end-to-end cloud-based platform, Artificial Intelligence Marketplace Ecommerce Engine (AIMEE™), leverages machine learning, natural language processing and data analytics. This streamlines the management of products at scale across leading online marketplaces, including Amazon, Shopify and Walmart.
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Voice Biometrics Near Field & Far Field DSP
Yobe brings AI into the world of signal processing by introducing intelligent behavior much earlier in process. While processing signals acquired in “noisy scenarios” this type of advancement in technology enables platforms to accurately separate voices of interest from background and near-field noise.
Portfolio News
A selection of recent news on our amazing Portfolio Companies.
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aspinity - Aspinity Demonstrates World’s First Ultra-Low-Power Analog Voice Wake-Up IC for Battery-Operated Devices
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aspinity - Aspinity Releases EVK2 Development Kit
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armortext - Auto-ISAC's Membership Adds Four Cybersecurity Companies
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armortext - For some D.C.-area companies, encryption is big business
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tagspace - Mixed Realities, Startups & Telekom: Something’s Up
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mohawk - Mohawk Group Holdings – Consensus Indicates Potential 42.5% Upside
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mohawk - Mohawk Group Named to the Inc. 5000 2019 Fastest Growing Companies List
Insights
Welcome to Azafran INSIGHTS, a newsletter and podcast series exploring the intersection of voice, acoustics and imagery powered by machine learning and deep science technologies.
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Issue 21 - 2020 a Year of COVID, Challenges and Opportunity Like No Other Before
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Looking back and looking forward, highlighting key INSIGHTS features and signposts from the past year as well as a focus on the first virtual CES and many other prominent events.
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Issue 21 - CES 2021 Goes Virtual: Positives and Negatives
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The biggest difference for our team from this year’s CES was the networking and collisions that always occurred for us at the conference.
