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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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
The content and distribution of Azafran’s INSIGHTS newsletter is focused to our LP, incubator, research, investment and partner ecosystem. As we look to build a two-way dialogue benefitting our collective efforts, each month we highlight important news and our approach to the emerging intersection of deep technology, end to end solutions and platforms driven by voice, acoustics/sensory and imagery.
The content and distribution of Azafran’s INSIGHTS newsletter is focused to our LP, incubator, research, investment and partner ecosystem. Below are highlights from the last two issues, please sign up to receive access to past and new issues as they are published.
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Issue 21 - 2020 a Year of COVID, Challenges and Opportunity Like No Other Before
Read moreLooking 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
Read moreThe biggest difference for our team from this year’s CES was the networking and collisions that always occurred for us at the conference.