CHF 40,000 for startups developing automation for legal workflow and an AR software for instructive construction
31.03.2021
DeepJudge and incon.ai win Venture Kick's second stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects provide the legal profession with an AI-driven automation platform and give humans robotic vision to create complex building construction.
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 Deepjudge's Team: (from left to right) Kevin Roth (Research & Development), Paulina Grnarova (CEO), Florian Schmidt (Head of Research), and Yannic Kilcher (CTO)
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 Incon.ai: Senior Researcher Abel Gawel, CTO Fadri Furrer and, CEO Timothy Sandy
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Deepjudge: AI driven automation for legal workflow
Legal data is predestined for AI: full of underlying laws ready to be uncovered by learning algorithms. With 20+ years of combined experience with state-of-the-art deep learning, the four founders Florian Schmidt, Paulina Grnarova, Yannic Kilcher, Kevin Roth, and advisors Thomas Hofmann and Elliott Ash have an unparalleled set of skills to push the boundary of context-aware legal language processing. Together they work on DeepJudge that shapes the future of the legal profession through a revolutionary technique for understanding and processing legal documents. With such document understanding technology at the heart of their platform, they bring the next-generation legal services that automate repetitive tasks for lawyers and help them achieve faster and higher quality outcomes: from anonymization of text and information extraction to legal semantic research. They plan to incorporate the company and transition all four founders to full-time positions. Within the following six months the milestone is to turn their prototype into a product through active conversations with lawyers, as well as improvements on the front-end (interface) and back-end (AI and scalability). Then, they plan to already work with customers for which they are already in active conversations. The Venutre Kick funds will be used for compute power as well as salaries of everyone in the company. deepjudge.ai
incon.ai: software for all measuring and working steps for complex construction
The building construction industry needs to improve productivity in the face of increasing demand and the growing complexity of building projects. Incon.ai develops augmented reality guidance software to allow builders to interact with 3d building models on the construction site.
Incon.ai's Co-founders are CEO Timothy Sandy, CTO Fadri Furrer and Senior researcher Abel Gawel. The three co-founders received PhDs from ETH and are currently postdoctoral researchers at ETH. Advisors are Prof. Marco Hutter and Michael Stucky. Leveraging their core technology which localizes devices within geometric models precisely and robustly, their mobile apps remove the need for 2d blueprints, avoid the loss of information in the translation of 3d building designs to 2d drawings, and improve the flow of digital data among the many actors in construction projects. They will provide their apps as fully-integrated add-ons to well-established building modelling software, giving us a unified path to the fragmented building construction market. Building construction is a $10 trillion industry and improving construction productivity has been estimated to be a $1 trillion opportunity.
They plan to use the Venture Kick funds to connect with potential customers in the construction industry and bring their first app for complex assembly tasks to market. incon.ai