Cartesia, a San Francisco, CA-based Developer of a multimodal intelligence tool designed to enable real-time, on-device artificial intelligence capabilities on every device. The company’s tool facilitates a generative voice application programming interface, model architectures, and state space models across diverse modalities, including text, audio, video, images, and time-series data, enabling developers to build sophisticated user interaction across various devices.
Cartesia was funded $27 million led by Index Ventures, with participation from A* Capital, Conviction, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, and SV Angel, along with 90 angel investors,
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Socket is a San Francisco, CA-based operator of a cybersecurity platform intended to protect companies from software supply chain attacks. The company’s platform uses sockets to help secure software applications and critical services against malware. It provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript and Python security threats, enabling companies to reduce security risks.
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