AI startup Onton raises $7.5M to reinvent the way the world discovers and decides what to buy




AI startup Onton raises $7.5M to reinvent the way the world discovers and decides what to buy

Onton to accelerate its mission of collapsing the 79 day shopping journey into under one day. Its novel neurosymbolic AI foundation – a next generation search and inspiration engine – now helps more than 2 million monthly users cut through complexity, find products they trust, and make confident decisions instantly.

San Francisco, Nov. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shopping has quietly become one of the hardest problems on the internet. People spend a collective lifetime moving between tabs, filtering through over-SEO’d listings, comparing conflicting reviews, and trying to work out what is real and what is marketing. The average person takes 79 days to make a single purchase decision, and the number is growing. Onton was built to reset this experience by making every decision as informed as asking an expert and as easy as asking a friend.

Onton has now raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Footwork with participation from Liquid 2, Parable Ventures, 43 and others, bringing its total funding to approximately $10 million. The company will use the capital to expand its product, scale its team, and grow its global footprint as demand for trustworthy, intelligent search accelerates.

Team Onton. 

The timing is significant. Traditional e-commerce is struggling under the weight of unstructured data and models that were never designed for the volume or complexity of information the modern web produces. Existing search engines rely on keyword matching, outdated filters, or advertising incentives that often push relevance to the background. Onton combines a new interface with a novel neurosymbolic AI foundation that learns more about the world with every search, dramatically increasing accuracy and enabling people to move from discovery to decision in minutes.

“We are building the future of decision making online,” said Zach Hudson, CEO and Co-Founder of Onton. “People deserve a way to shop that feels intelligent, transparent, and effortless. Onton is designed to remove the friction that slows everyone down and to give users absolute confidence in their choices.”

AI canvas, one of ontons new surfaces.

Onton allows users to search with natural language, images, or both. It aggregates information from across the web into a single product listing so people do not have to bounce across twelve sites to feel confident in what they choose. With new creative tools like Imagine and Surfaces, users can dream up the pieces they want and instantly see shoppable versions of those ideas. Onton is already delivering a conversion rate three times higher than the industry benchmark and over 20% of users are weekly active.

Multimodal search with Onton.

The company’s momentum has been fueled by a clear need and a long list of shared frustrations. Alex, Onton’s co-founder, spent 30 hours looking for a mid-century gray couch with wood trim and realized everyone around him had been through similar pain. Zach had been building Rcmmd and studying trust in online reviews for years. When the two met at a YC Startup School event, they recognized they were approaching the same problem from different angles. They teamed up, built the earliest versions of the product, won Pioneer, were accepted into the fifth On Deck Fellowship, and began scaling what would become Onton. The team scaled monthly active users to over 1 million with just four employees at the start of 2025 to ten today and expects to add five more soon.

Across the industry, the forces shaping shopping are shifting fast. The internet is filled with unverified, automatically generated content and the burden is landing on consumers to separate signal from noise. Brands are becoming walled gardens and long trusted sources for product recommendations are disappearing. At the same time, people are rapidly adopting AI first interfaces and expecting search to behave more like an intelligent assistant than a filterable list. These shifts are reshaping expectations for relevance, accuracy, and trust.

Image search with Onton.

Onton’s users describe the impact directly. One recently explained that Onton helped him find quality products that matched his passions without wasting hours on research. Another said the platform confirmed that items she was considering were truly unique, giving her the confidence to move forward instead of continuing to shop endlessly. Others shared that Onton cut months off their decision cycles and helped them restyle or furnish their homes with products they could immediately purchase. Power users are doing over 100 searches and generations a month. 

Looking ahead, Onton plans to expand beyond home decor and furniture into new categories like apparel and electronics, guided by the demand it already sees from users. The company will continue refining its knowledge graph, scaling its data pipeline, and preparing to introduce a customizable search engine that adapts to each individual. Over time, Onton aims to become a global decision making tool that supports any product, in any category, in any country

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About Onton
Onton is a search and discovery engine for products. Our mission is to help people make decisions they love, instantly. The average shopping journey takes 79 days, and we’re taking that to less than 1. Since our public launch in late 2023, we’ve grown exponentially to guide millions of users to their perfect product.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Onton press office on press@onton.com

DHL boosts operational efficiency and customer communications with HappyRobot’s AI Agents




DHL boosts operational efficiency and customer communications with HappyRobot’s AI Agents

DHL Supply Chain deepens its partnership with HappyRobot to automate routine communication across global operations

San Francisco, Nov. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DHL Group, the world’s leading logistics provider, is accelerating its enterprise-wide AI strategy through a new partnership between its contract logistics division, DHL Supply Chain, and the AI startup HappyRobot. The collaboration marks a significant step in deploying agentic AI to streamline operational communication and enhance both customer experience and employee engagement. 

DHL Supply Chain has already successfully utilized HappyRobot’s AI agents across several regions and use cases, including appointment scheduling, driver follow-up calls, and high-priority warehouse coordination. These agents autonomously handle phone and email interactions, enabling faster, more consistent, and scalable communication. 

Quili Peña, HappyRobot’s Head of Strategy & Operations and the lead for this strategic partnership effort, emphasized the significance of the collaboration, stating: “Working with the DHL Supply Chain leadership on this landmark initiative has been fantastic. Their teams brought clarity, urgency, and real commitment to making this a reality, and we’re grateful for the strong collaboration and excited to continue building together.”

HappyRobot team.

Strategic AI deployment across DHL Supply Chain 
“As part of our structured and strategic approach to AI, DHL Supply Chain has been systematically identifying and validating operational use cases for generative and agentic AI technologies for over 18 months. Building on our extensive operational experience with data analytics, robotic process automation, and self-learning software tools, we are now integrating AI agents to drive greater process efficiency for customers while making operational roles more engaging and rewarding for employees by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as manual data entry, routine scheduling, and standardized communications”, Sally Miller, CIO DHL Supply Chain, explained. 

Current deployments already in use across DHL Supply Chain target hundreds of thousands of emails and millions of voice minutes annually. AI agents are supporting key workflows such as appointment scheduling, transport status calls, and high-priority warehouse coordination – helping teams manage operational communication at scale and with greater consistency. 

Yamil Mateo, HappyRobot’s Head of Product, said that close collaboration between the product and engineering teams and DHL Supply Chain’s technology departments has been crucial to designing new agentic capabilities that reflect the nuances of DHL’s operations. He remarked, “The DHL team understood very early the scale of enablement our platform brings to their organization. They were clear that they wanted a partner with state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure.”

The HappyRobot OS.

Danny Luo, a senior engineer on the founding team, added, “To enable this transformation, we’ve created a unified AI worker orchestration layer across email, WhatsApp, and SMS, enabling omnichannel capabilities with built-in fault tolerance and recovery.” He and his team have also been working on major reliability improvements in the infrastructure to support the scale and criticality of the operational processes running on the HappyRobot deployment for DHL.

AI agents as a new operating model 
These implementations have already shown measurable impact – significantly reducing manual effort, increasing responsiveness, and enabling teams to focus on more strategic tasks and exception Press release Page 2 of 3 handling. By automating high-volume communication workflows, AI agents like those from HappyRobot are helping DHL deliver faster, more customer-centric services, while improving the work experience for employees and contributing to long-term workforce retention. 

HappyRobot: Staffing AI agent confirms contract work and finds a replacement.

“At DHL Supply Chain, our people are at the heart of everything we do,” said Lindsay Bridges, EVP Human Resources at DHL Supply Chain. “AI agents help us relieve our teams from repetitive, timeconsuming tasks and give them space to focus on meaningful, high-value work. In today’s tight labor markets, where qualified talent is increasingly scarce, these technologies allow us to maintain – and even improve – responsiveness, customer centricity, and service consistency, while making roles more attractive and sustainable. That’s not just operational progress – it’s also a win for our people.” 

HappyRobot’s platform enables fully autonomous AI agents to interact via phone, email, and messaging, while integrating seamlessly with DHL’s internal systems. And DHL Group continues to expand its AI strategy across all divisions. Beyond current pilots, further use cases are tested.

“At HappyRobot, we envision AI workers coordinating global supply chain operations – not just moving data, but actively managing workflows,” said Pablo Palafox, CEO of HappyRobot. “Too often, people are stuck maintaining systems and inboxes, with little time to solve exceptions or improve processes. DHL recognized early on the potential of AI agents as a new operating layer – one that brings speed, visibility, and consistency to logistics. We’re proud to collaborate with such forward-thinking partners to scale this vision globally.”

Media images can be found here. 

About HappyRobot
HappyRobot is an enterprise-grade platform to build, deploy, and manage an AI workforce. They work with supply chain enterprises to automate end-to-end tasks at scale, leveraging communication, document parsing, web browsing, and other models to offload complex tasks from human teams. HappyRobot enables enterprises to move faster, automate information exchange, and get real time data visibility across the organization. Common use cases include inbound and outbound sales, shipment updates, scheduling, payment collections, recruiting, and support, working across the organization as an AI partner. For more information, please visit www.happyrobot.ai.

About DHL 
DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management. With approximately 400,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global sustainable trade flows. With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, engineering, manufacturing & energy, auto-mobility and retail, DHL is decisively positioned as “The logistics company for the world”. 

DHL is part of DHL Group. The Group generated revenues of approximately 84.2 billion euros in 2024. With sustainable business practices and a commitment to society and the environment, the Group makes a positive contribution to the world. DHL Group aims to achieve net-zero emissions logistics by 2050.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the HappyRobot press office on press@happyrobot.ai 

DHL boosts operational efficiency and customer communications with HappyRobot’s AI Agents




DHL boosts operational efficiency and customer communications with HappyRobot’s AI Agents

DHL Supply Chain deepens its partnership with HappyRobot to automate routine communication across global operations

San Francisco, Nov. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DHL Group, the world’s leading logistics provider, is accelerating its enterprise-wide AI strategy through a new partnership between its contract logistics division, DHL Supply Chain, and the AI startup HappyRobot. The collaboration marks a significant step in deploying agentic AI to streamline operational communication and enhance both customer experience and employee engagement. 

DHL Supply Chain has already successfully utilized HappyRobot’s AI agents across several regions and use cases, including appointment scheduling, driver follow-up calls, and high-priority warehouse coordination. These agents autonomously handle phone and email interactions, enabling faster, more consistent, and scalable communication. 

Quili Peña, HappyRobot’s Head of Strategy & Operations and the lead for this strategic partnership effort, emphasized the significance of the collaboration, stating: “Working with the DHL Supply Chain leadership on this landmark initiative has been fantastic. Their teams brought clarity, urgency, and real commitment to making this a reality, and we’re grateful for the strong collaboration and excited to continue building together.”

HappyRobot team.

Strategic AI deployment across DHL Supply Chain 
“As part of our structured and strategic approach to AI, DHL Supply Chain has been systematically identifying and validating operational use cases for generative and agentic AI technologies for over 18 months. Building on our extensive operational experience with data analytics, robotic process automation, and self-learning software tools, we are now integrating AI agents to drive greater process efficiency for customers while making operational roles more engaging and rewarding for employees by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as manual data entry, routine scheduling, and standardized communications”, Sally Miller, CIO DHL Supply Chain, explained. 

Current deployments already in use across DHL Supply Chain target hundreds of thousands of emails and millions of voice minutes annually. AI agents are supporting key workflows such as appointment scheduling, transport status calls, and high-priority warehouse coordination – helping teams manage operational communication at scale and with greater consistency. 

Yamil Mateo, HappyRobot’s Head of Product, said that close collaboration between the product and engineering teams and DHL Supply Chain’s technology departments has been crucial to designing new agentic capabilities that reflect the nuances of DHL’s operations. He remarked, “The DHL team understood very early the scale of enablement our platform brings to their organization. They were clear that they wanted a partner with state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure.”

The HappyRobot OS.

Danny Luo, a senior engineer on the founding team, added, “To enable this transformation, we’ve created a unified AI worker orchestration layer across email, WhatsApp, and SMS, enabling omnichannel capabilities with built-in fault tolerance and recovery.” He and his team have also been working on major reliability improvements in the infrastructure to support the scale and criticality of the operational processes running on the HappyRobot deployment for DHL.

AI agents as a new operating model 
These implementations have already shown measurable impact – significantly reducing manual effort, increasing responsiveness, and enabling teams to focus on more strategic tasks and exception Press release Page 2 of 3 handling. By automating high-volume communication workflows, AI agents like those from HappyRobot are helping DHL deliver faster, more customer-centric services, while improving the work experience for employees and contributing to long-term workforce retention. 

HappyRobot: Staffing AI agent confirms contract work and finds a replacement.

“At DHL Supply Chain, our people are at the heart of everything we do,” said Lindsay Bridges, EVP Human Resources at DHL Supply Chain. “AI agents help us relieve our teams from repetitive, timeconsuming tasks and give them space to focus on meaningful, high-value work. In today’s tight labor markets, where qualified talent is increasingly scarce, these technologies allow us to maintain – and even improve – responsiveness, customer centricity, and service consistency, while making roles more attractive and sustainable. That’s not just operational progress – it’s also a win for our people.” 

HappyRobot’s platform enables fully autonomous AI agents to interact via phone, email, and messaging, while integrating seamlessly with DHL’s internal systems. And DHL Group continues to expand its AI strategy across all divisions. Beyond current pilots, further use cases are tested.

“At HappyRobot, we envision AI workers coordinating global supply chain operations – not just moving data, but actively managing workflows,” said Pablo Palafox, CEO of HappyRobot. “Too often, people are stuck maintaining systems and inboxes, with little time to solve exceptions or improve processes. DHL recognized early on the potential of AI agents as a new operating layer – one that brings speed, visibility, and consistency to logistics. We’re proud to collaborate with such forward-thinking partners to scale this vision globally.”

Media images can be found here. 

About HappyRobot
HappyRobot is an enterprise-grade platform to build, deploy, and manage an AI workforce. They work with supply chain enterprises to automate end-to-end tasks at scale, leveraging communication, document parsing, web browsing, and other models to offload complex tasks from human teams. HappyRobot enables enterprises to move faster, automate information exchange, and get real time data visibility across the organization. Common use cases include inbound and outbound sales, shipment updates, scheduling, payment collections, recruiting, and support, working across the organization as an AI partner. For more information, please visit www.happyrobot.ai.

About DHL 
DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management. With approximately 400,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global sustainable trade flows. With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, engineering, manufacturing & energy, auto-mobility and retail, DHL is decisively positioned as “The logistics company for the world”. 

DHL is part of DHL Group. The Group generated revenues of approximately 84.2 billion euros in 2024. With sustainable business practices and a commitment to society and the environment, the Group makes a positive contribution to the world. DHL Group aims to achieve net-zero emissions logistics by 2050.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the HappyRobot press office on press@happyrobot.ai 

Green Rain Energy Holdings (OTCID: $GREH) Launches Regulation Crowdfunding for Its Subsidiary Green Rain Development




Green Rain Energy Holdings (OTCID: $GREH) Launches Regulation Crowdfunding for Its Subsidiary Green Rain Development

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Green Rain Energy Holdings Inc. (OTCID: $GREH) is excited to announce the initiation of Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Green Rain Development. This strategic move enables the company to raise capital by offering fractional ownership to a broad range of investors, granting them access to revenue streams and incentive-based rebates.

Reg CF represents a significant step toward democratizing investment opportunities in clean energy. By leveraging this platform, Green Rain Energy aims to accelerate the development of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, solar farms, and battery component projects across North America. These initiatives align with the company’s mission to transform urban environments and underutilized spaces into sustainable energy hubs.

Through Green Rain Development, $GREH will integrate innovative EV infrastructure and forge local partnerships to fast-track renewable energy projects. This approach not only supports environmental responsibility but also creates long-term value for investors and communities. Expansion plans and project details are available on the official Green Rain Energy website.

The announcement coincides with the distribution of $GREH’s special share dividend this week, reinforcing the company’s commitment to shareholder value. Analysts view Reg CF as a pivotal tool for companies like Green Rain Energy to engage qualified investors and drive growth in the renewable energy sector.

About Green Rain Energy Holdings Inc.
Green Rain Energy Holdings Inc. is dedicated to developing and deploying sustainable power solutions across North America. Through its subsidiaries and strategic partnerships, the company is building a robust clean energy infrastructure—from solar generation to EV charging networks—while promoting environmental stewardship and innovation.

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Bertelsmann Makes First-ever Japan Investment in AI Recruitment Platform HelloBoss, Fueling the Launch of Its Next-gen AI Agent




Bertelsmann Makes First-ever Japan Investment in AI Recruitment Platform HelloBoss, Fueling the Launch of Its Next-gen AI Agent

Series A funding accelerates HelloBoss’s vision for an AI-powered, unified global hiring platform—redefining how talent and opportunities connect worldwide, scaling from Japan

TOKYO, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HelloBoss, Asia’s leading AI-powered recruitment platform developed by Tokyo-based startup NGA, announced today that it has raised Series A funding backed by international media group Bertelsmann, marking the firm’s first-ever strategic investment in Japan. The round also includes participation from BAI Capital, a venture capital firm with a track record of backing over 40 unicorns and 17 IPOs. The funding will accelerate HelloBoss’s global expansion and support the rollout of its flagship feature: the AI Agent, a patent-backed tool that intelligently automates and simplifies hiring for both employers and jobseekers.

Series A Funding Fuels Global Hiring Vision, with Japan as Strategic Launchpad

HelloBoss is one of Asia’s largest AI-driven job platforms, designed to reinvent hiring through automation and intelligent matching. Since its launch in early 2023, it has received rapidly traction, recording a tenfold revenue increase—despite a lean team of just 20 people in two years—and is now trusted by global brands including Marriott, Dior and Suntory.

The Series A funding round led by Bertelsmann and BAI Capital marks a major step in HelloBoss’s long-term vision to build a global, AI-powered hiring infrastructure. It follows a Pre-A round that included multiple global investors—most notably Singapore-based Yunqi Partners—and reflects growing international confidence in HelloBoss’ vision, technology, and commercial momentum.

By aligning with investors and industry peers with deep global networks—including an existing strategic partnership with U.S. HR tech decacorn Deel—HelloBoss aims to accelerate product development, strengthen its core team, and empower international market expansion. While built for global scale from day one, HelloBoss has used Japan—one of the most high-barrier HR tech environments—as its strategic launchpad.

“Japan proved the model,” said Alex Wang, CEO of NGA. “Now we’re scaling HelloBoss into the go-to platform for global AI hiring. Backed by a world-class team of enterprise veterans, multinational product and engineering talent—including Dr. Yanbo Xue, our Chief Scientific Advisor from a $10B HR tech leader—and seasoned Japanese sales leadership, HelloBoss is well positioned to accelerate its next phase of international expansion.”

As a Tokyo-based entrepreneur of Chinese heritage, Wang’s career includes five years at Japan’s Recruit Group—founded in 1960 and known for its 2012 acquisition of Indeed, the world’s largest job search site—alongside the founding of multiple successful ventures both before and after his tenure there, ultimately leading to the launch of HelloBoss.

From Japan to the World: A Game-Changing AI Agent for Hiring and Job Hunting

HelloBoss’s newly launched AI Agent introduces a seamless, intelligent experience for both sides of the job market.

For jobseekers, the AI Agent offers the following capabilities—all in just a few clicks:

• Drag-and-drop resume upload via a map-based interface
• Instant job matches with visual previews and match scores, powered by HelloBoss’s patented AI matching algorithm
• Auto-generated, tailored resumes, self-introductions and job application photos for each opportunity—enabled by HelloBoss’s existing built-in AI generator
• One-click applications to multiple roles simultaneously

For employers, the AI Agent transforms the hiring process with equal ease:

• Auto-generated job postings with optimized wording and formatting, created instantly from simple inputs
• AI-powered candidate shortlists with match reasoning
• Personalized recruit messages drafted automatically for each candidate profile
• Multi-channel communication AI support across phone, email, and SMS—plus auto-suggested interview questions to streamline the process

Below is the feature introduction video, which illustrates how HelloBoss’s AI Agent is reshaping hiring in real time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLqPyIrCqqc

Built on HelloBoss’s patented technology, the AI Agent combines several proprietary features to deliver a smart, end-to-end hiring experience. It is fully optimized for both web and mobile use, and supports multilingual and cross-border job discovery, allowing international talent to explore and apply to roles in Japan and beyond.

Redefining How People and Opportunities Connect
Backed by global investors, trusted by enterprise partners, and powered by proprietary AI technology and data assets, HelloBoss is rapidly emerging as a transformative force in the global hiring landscape.

“We’re not just improving hiring—we’re redefining how people and opportunities connect globally, building the job platform for the generative AI era,” said Wang. “With remote work erasing geographic limits, our goal is to build a unified, intelligent global job platform—where you state your skills and needs, and AI will find the best role for you, anywhere on the planet.”

About HelloBoss

HelloBoss is one of Asia’s most advanced AI-driven recruitment platforms, launched in Japan in 2023 to boost global talent mobility. As Japan’s first third-generation AI hiring service, it integrates patented AI-matching technology and chat-based communication to deliver faster, more efficient hiring experience.

The platform is powered by its own database of 5.5 million companies and leads in generative AI adoption, offering free tools such as resume and photo creators, career mentors, self-introduction generators, and automated job postings. In partnership with U.S. HR tech decacorn Deel, HelloBoss launched Global Remote Hire, a service enabling companies to employ overseas AI talent on flexible three-month terms. In recognition of its innovation in HR technology, HelloBoss has been honored with multiple industry awards.

https://helloboss.com/global

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Bertelsmann Makes First-ever Japan Investment in AI Recruitment Platform HelloBoss, Fueling the Launch of Its Next-gen AI Agent




Bertelsmann Makes First-ever Japan Investment in AI Recruitment Platform HelloBoss, Fueling the Launch of Its Next-gen AI Agent

Series A funding accelerates HelloBoss’s vision for an AI-powered, unified global hiring platform—redefining how talent and opportunities connect worldwide, scaling from Japan

TOKYO, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HelloBoss, Asia’s leading AI-powered recruitment platform developed by Tokyo-based startup NGA, announced today that it has raised Series A funding backed by international media group Bertelsmann, marking the firm’s first-ever strategic investment in Japan. The round also includes participation from BAI Capital, a venture capital firm with a track record of backing over 40 unicorns and 17 IPOs. The funding will accelerate HelloBoss’s global expansion and support the rollout of its flagship feature: the AI Agent, a patent-backed tool that intelligently automates and simplifies hiring for both employers and jobseekers.

Series A Funding Fuels Global Hiring Vision, with Japan as Strategic Launchpad

HelloBoss is one of Asia’s largest AI-driven job platforms, designed to reinvent hiring through automation and intelligent matching. Since its launch in early 2023, it has received rapidly traction, recording a tenfold revenue increase—despite a lean team of just 20 people in two years—and is now trusted by global brands including Marriott, Dior and Suntory.

The Series A funding round led by Bertelsmann and BAI Capital marks a major step in HelloBoss’s long-term vision to build a global, AI-powered hiring infrastructure. It follows a Pre-A round that included multiple global investors—most notably Singapore-based Yunqi Partners—and reflects growing international confidence in HelloBoss’ vision, technology, and commercial momentum.

By aligning with investors and industry peers with deep global networks—including an existing strategic partnership with U.S. HR tech decacorn Deel—HelloBoss aims to accelerate product development, strengthen its core team, and empower international market expansion. While built for global scale from day one, HelloBoss has used Japan—one of the most high-barrier HR tech environments—as its strategic launchpad.

“Japan proved the model,” said Alex Wang, CEO of NGA. “Now we’re scaling HelloBoss into the go-to platform for global AI hiring. Backed by a world-class team of enterprise veterans, multinational product and engineering talent—including Dr. Yanbo Xue, our Chief Scientific Advisor from a $10B HR tech leader—and seasoned Japanese sales leadership, HelloBoss is well positioned to accelerate its next phase of international expansion.”

As a Tokyo-based entrepreneur of Chinese heritage, Wang’s career includes five years at Japan’s Recruit Group—founded in 1960 and known for its 2012 acquisition of Indeed, the world’s largest job search site—alongside the founding of multiple successful ventures both before and after his tenure there, ultimately leading to the launch of HelloBoss.

From Japan to the World: A Game-Changing AI Agent for Hiring and Job Hunting

HelloBoss’s newly launched AI Agent introduces a seamless, intelligent experience for both sides of the job market.

For jobseekers, the AI Agent offers the following capabilities—all in just a few clicks:

• Drag-and-drop resume upload via a map-based interface
• Instant job matches with visual previews and match scores, powered by HelloBoss’s patented AI matching algorithm
• Auto-generated, tailored resumes, self-introductions and job application photos for each opportunity—enabled by HelloBoss’s existing built-in AI generator
• One-click applications to multiple roles simultaneously

For employers, the AI Agent transforms the hiring process with equal ease:

• Auto-generated job postings with optimized wording and formatting, created instantly from simple inputs
• AI-powered candidate shortlists with match reasoning
• Personalized recruit messages drafted automatically for each candidate profile
• Multi-channel communication AI support across phone, email, and SMS—plus auto-suggested interview questions to streamline the process

Below is the feature introduction video, which illustrates how HelloBoss’s AI Agent is reshaping hiring in real time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLqPyIrCqqc

Built on HelloBoss’s patented technology, the AI Agent combines several proprietary features to deliver a smart, end-to-end hiring experience. It is fully optimized for both web and mobile use, and supports multilingual and cross-border job discovery, allowing international talent to explore and apply to roles in Japan and beyond.

Redefining How People and Opportunities Connect
Backed by global investors, trusted by enterprise partners, and powered by proprietary AI technology and data assets, HelloBoss is rapidly emerging as a transformative force in the global hiring landscape.

“We’re not just improving hiring—we’re redefining how people and opportunities connect globally, building the job platform for the generative AI era,” said Wang. “With remote work erasing geographic limits, our goal is to build a unified, intelligent global job platform—where you state your skills and needs, and AI will find the best role for you, anywhere on the planet.”

About HelloBoss

HelloBoss is one of Asia’s most advanced AI-driven recruitment platforms, launched in Japan in 2023 to boost global talent mobility. As Japan’s first third-generation AI hiring service, it integrates patented AI-matching technology and chat-based communication to deliver faster, more efficient hiring experience.

The platform is powered by its own database of 5.5 million companies and leads in generative AI adoption, offering free tools such as resume and photo creators, career mentors, self-introduction generators, and automated job postings. In partnership with U.S. HR tech decacorn Deel, HelloBoss launched Global Remote Hire, a service enabling companies to employ overseas AI talent on flexible three-month terms. In recognition of its innovation in HR technology, HelloBoss has been honored with multiple industry awards.

https://helloboss.com/global

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Pibit.AI lands a $7M Series A to build trusted AI for the next generation of underwriters




Pibit.AI lands a $7M Series A to build trusted AI for the next generation of underwriters

Pibit.AI has raised $7 million to modernize underwriting with its CURE platform, a trusted AI system that turns messy insurance submissions into faster decisions.

San Francisco, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Insurance has always been about understanding risk, but for decades, the tools underwriters rely on have barely evolved. Pibit AI, a company rethinking underwriting from the ground up, today announced a $7 million funding round to accelerate development of its Centralized Underwriting Risk Environment (CURE^TM) and expedite industry-wide adoption. The round will help the company double down on its mission to make underwriting faster, more accurate, and above all, trusted.

The series A funding round was led by Stellaris Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures. Pibit.AI was founded by engineer Akash Agarwal – and for him, it was personal. Having grown up watching his father work late hours as an insurance agent buried in forms, he later saw how AI transformed industries like autonomous vehicles, while underwriting remained trapped in outdated workflows. The contrast sparked a question that became Pibit.AI’s foundation: if AI can drive cars, why can’t it drive better underwriting?

Pibit.AI founder: Akash Agarwal.

The company’s flagship platform, CURE^TM, transforms the end-to-end underwriting process into a unified, intelligent system. It handles submissions, document parsing, research, risk analysis, and workflow orchestration all in one environment. Each module, from ClearCURE^TM for triage to DocumentCURE^TM for document intelligence and ResearchCURE^TM for real-time data enrichment, helps underwriters move from raw submission to decision-ready output. RiskCURE^TM then evaluates each account with portfolio-specific signals, while WorkflowCURE^TM consolidates every task, insight, and collaboration into a single pane of glass.

“Pibit.AI was built around one idea: that AI should empower underwriters, not replace them,” said Akash Agarwal, Founder and CEO. “Too many systems prioritize speed over trust. We’re building something that’s transparent, explainable, and decision-ready – a system that gives underwriters confidence in every output while helping them move faster than ever before.”

In an industry where submission volumes are rising and underwriting talent is shrinking, efficiency is no longer optional. Underwriting teams still spend up to a third of their time on manual data entry, triaging, and enrichment. Pibit.AI’s platform addresses that head-on by combining automation with an intelligent services layer that also ensures human verification and contextual oversight. It delivers accuracy that holds up under audit, consistency across teams, and visibility across entire portfolios.

The results are already measurable. Pibit.AI’s customers, including HDVI, Shepherd Insurance, RMS Insurance Brokerage, Kinetic, and Method Insurance Company, have reported up to 85% faster underwriting cycles, a 32% increase in gross written premium per underwriter, and up to 700 basis points of improvement in loss ratios. For carriers and MGAs, this translates to higher capacity, faster growth, and sharper risk selection.

“As a fast-moving company scaling our operations nationally, Pibit.AI played a key role in ensuring we achieved that growth without losing control,” remarked Michaela Morrison, COO, Method Insurance Services (a subsidiary of Cake Insure, Inc., a Pinnacol Assurance company). “Our outcomes aren’t magic; they are the direct product of thoughtful engineering and a team that genuinely listens,” she added. While Adam Price, CEO at Kinetic added: “Pibit.AI helps us to handle more than a billion dollars in submissions on an annual basis without scaling our overhead costs, and grow our business by close to 100% in premium because we’re able to get those looks and quotes up and running.”

Pibit.AI founding team. 

“Underwriting has long been constrained by manual reviews, inconsistent data and tools that haven’t kept pace with rising submission volumes,” said Alok Goyal, Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners. “With CURE^TM, Pibit.AI automates and unifies these workflows, improving accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating quote generation to drive higher revenue. We’re excited to partner with Akash and lead Pibit.AI’s Series A round as it scales.”

With more than 125 employees and dozens of customers, Pibit.AI will be investing further in AI infrastructure and integrations. The company’s roadmap includes expanded advanced risk models, API layers, and deeper data partnerships that will make the CURE^TM platform even more adaptive to new lines of business and emerging risks.

As the insurance industry faces an era defined by data overload and talent scarcity, Pibit.AI is building the bridge between technology and human judgment – turning underwriting from a manual art into an intelligent, scalable science.

Media images can be found here. 

About Pibit.AI
Pibit.AI is an SF–based insurtech company reconstructing the art (and science) of commercial underwriting for carriers and MGAs. At the heart is the CURE™ platform, the industry’s only centralized underwriting risk environment fueled by agentic underwriting services that delivers decision-ready outcomes. It converts submissions into decisions by automating intake, triage, and data enrichment from documents and external sources while surfacing risk insights so you can win the right accounts faster, scale throughput, and reduce loss ratios. Backed by Y-Combinator, the proprietary platform serves dozens of clients across the US, enabling 85% faster underwriting, 32% increase in GWP per underwriter, and up to 700 basis points improvement in loss ratios. For details, visit pibit.ai. 

About Stellaris Venture Partners
Stellaris Venture Partners is an early-stage, tech-focused venture capital firm supporting fearless founders at the ground level. With a team of former entrepreneurs and business builders, Stellaris is dedicated to helping founders at the earliest stages of company formation build sustainable, market-leading businesses.

Stellaris manages over $600 million in assets and is currently investing from its third fund of $300 million. Stellaris has built a portfolio of more than 40 companies across SaaS, Consumer, Financial Services, B2B Commerce, Education, Mobility and Healthcare. Stellaris portfolio companies that are market leaders in their spaces include Mamaearth, Whatfix, Propelld, Turno, Dashverse and Kiwi, among others.
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CONTACT:  For further information please contact the Pibit.AI press office: Prakhar Mohan on prakhar.mohan@pibit.ai. 

Pibit.AI lands a $7M Series A to build trusted AI for the next generation of underwriters




Pibit.AI lands a $7M Series A to build trusted AI for the next generation of underwriters

Pibit.AI has raised $7 million to modernize underwriting with its CURE platform, a trusted AI system that turns messy insurance submissions into faster decisions.

San Francisco, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Insurance has always been about understanding risk, but for decades, the tools underwriters rely on have barely evolved. Pibit AI, a company rethinking underwriting from the ground up, today announced a $7 million funding round to accelerate development of its Centralized Underwriting Risk Environment (CURE^TM) and expedite industry-wide adoption. The round will help the company double down on its mission to make underwriting faster, more accurate, and above all, trusted.

The series A funding round was led by Stellaris Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures. Pibit.AI was founded by engineer Akash Agarwal – and for him, it was personal. Having grown up watching his father work late hours as an insurance agent buried in forms, he later saw how AI transformed industries like autonomous vehicles, while underwriting remained trapped in outdated workflows. The contrast sparked a question that became Pibit.AI’s foundation: if AI can drive cars, why can’t it drive better underwriting?

Pibit.AI founder: Akash Agarwal.

The company’s flagship platform, CURE^TM, transforms the end-to-end underwriting process into a unified, intelligent system. It handles submissions, document parsing, research, risk analysis, and workflow orchestration all in one environment. Each module, from ClearCURE^TM for triage to DocumentCURE^TM for document intelligence and ResearchCURE^TM for real-time data enrichment, helps underwriters move from raw submission to decision-ready output. RiskCURE^TM then evaluates each account with portfolio-specific signals, while WorkflowCURE^TM consolidates every task, insight, and collaboration into a single pane of glass.

“Pibit.AI was built around one idea: that AI should empower underwriters, not replace them,” said Akash Agarwal, Founder and CEO. “Too many systems prioritize speed over trust. We’re building something that’s transparent, explainable, and decision-ready – a system that gives underwriters confidence in every output while helping them move faster than ever before.”

In an industry where submission volumes are rising and underwriting talent is shrinking, efficiency is no longer optional. Underwriting teams still spend up to a third of their time on manual data entry, triaging, and enrichment. Pibit.AI’s platform addresses that head-on by combining automation with an intelligent services layer that also ensures human verification and contextual oversight. It delivers accuracy that holds up under audit, consistency across teams, and visibility across entire portfolios.

The results are already measurable. Pibit.AI’s customers, including HDVI, Shepherd Insurance, RMS Insurance Brokerage, Kinetic, and Method Insurance Company, have reported up to 85% faster underwriting cycles, a 32% increase in gross written premium per underwriter, and up to 700 basis points of improvement in loss ratios. For carriers and MGAs, this translates to higher capacity, faster growth, and sharper risk selection.

“As a fast-moving company scaling our operations nationally, Pibit.AI played a key role in ensuring we achieved that growth without losing control,” remarked Michaela Morrison, COO, Method Insurance Services (a subsidiary of Cake Insure, Inc., a Pinnacol Assurance company). “Our outcomes aren’t magic; they are the direct product of thoughtful engineering and a team that genuinely listens,” she added. While Adam Price, CEO at Kinetic added: “Pibit.AI helps us to handle more than a billion dollars in submissions on an annual basis without scaling our overhead costs, and grow our business by close to 100% in premium because we’re able to get those looks and quotes up and running.”

Pibit.AI founding team. 

“Underwriting has long been constrained by manual reviews, inconsistent data and tools that haven’t kept pace with rising submission volumes,” said Alok Goyal, Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners. “With CURE^TM, Pibit.AI automates and unifies these workflows, improving accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating quote generation to drive higher revenue. We’re excited to partner with Akash and lead Pibit.AI’s Series A round as it scales.”

With more than 125 employees and dozens of customers, Pibit.AI will be investing further in AI infrastructure and integrations. The company’s roadmap includes expanded advanced risk models, API layers, and deeper data partnerships that will make the CURE^TM platform even more adaptive to new lines of business and emerging risks.

As the insurance industry faces an era defined by data overload and talent scarcity, Pibit.AI is building the bridge between technology and human judgment – turning underwriting from a manual art into an intelligent, scalable science.

Media images can be found here. 

About Pibit.AI
Pibit.AI is an SF–based insurtech company reconstructing the art (and science) of commercial underwriting for carriers and MGAs. At the heart is the CURE™ platform, the industry’s only centralized underwriting risk environment fueled by agentic underwriting services that delivers decision-ready outcomes. It converts submissions into decisions by automating intake, triage, and data enrichment from documents and external sources while surfacing risk insights so you can win the right accounts faster, scale throughput, and reduce loss ratios. Backed by Y-Combinator, the proprietary platform serves dozens of clients across the US, enabling 85% faster underwriting, 32% increase in GWP per underwriter, and up to 700 basis points improvement in loss ratios. For details, visit pibit.ai. 

About Stellaris Venture Partners
Stellaris Venture Partners is an early-stage, tech-focused venture capital firm supporting fearless founders at the ground level. With a team of former entrepreneurs and business builders, Stellaris is dedicated to helping founders at the earliest stages of company formation build sustainable, market-leading businesses.

Stellaris manages over $600 million in assets and is currently investing from its third fund of $300 million. Stellaris has built a portfolio of more than 40 companies across SaaS, Consumer, Financial Services, B2B Commerce, Education, Mobility and Healthcare. Stellaris portfolio companies that are market leaders in their spaces include Mamaearth, Whatfix, Propelld, Turno, Dashverse and Kiwi, among others.
Website | LinkedIn | X | YouTube

CONTACT:  For further information please contact the Pibit.AI press office: Prakhar Mohan on prakhar.mohan@pibit.ai. 

Albatross raises $12.5 million to reinvent real-time product discovery for the modern web




Albatross raises $12.5 million to reinvent real-time product discovery for the modern web

Former Amazon AI leaders raise $12.5M to deploy AI that understands user intent in real time, transforming how millions discover products and content online. The platform learns continuously from live behavior, replacing static recommendation systems with dynamic intelligence that adapts moment-to-moment.

Zurich, Nov. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Every click online tells a story. Yet the systems behind most of the internet still treat users as static profiles, recycling yesterday’s data to predict tomorrow’s intent. Albatross, a Zurich-based AI company founded by former Amazon AI leaders, has raised $12.5 million in new funding to rewrite that logic with the world’s first platform for real-time product and content discovery – one that learns, reasons, and adapts as users interact.

The round was led by MMC Ventures with participation from Redalpine, Daphni, and strategic angels, bringing Albatross’s total funding to $16 million, following a $3.5 million foundation round in September 2024 led by Redalpine. The company’s platform is already serving billions of live events and tens of millions of predictions each month across marketplaces, retail, and travel platforms worldwide, processing approximately a hundred million products and tens of millions of end users.

Albatross founders: (L to R), Dr Matteo Ruffini, Dr Kevin Kahn and Johan Boissard. 

Founded in 2024 by Dr Kevin Kahn and Dr Matteo Ruffini, both former Amazon AI leaders, alongside serial entrepreneur Johan Boissard, Albatross is tackling what the team sees as a fundamental gap in the AI revolution. While much of the industry focuses on large language models that generate content, Albatross is building the second pillar of AI: understanding how users perceive and interact with content in real time. It is built on transformer-based architecture with sequential embedding models trained directly on live events.

Traditional recommendation systems look backward, using batch-trained models that rely on popularity, similarity, or user history. They struggle to capture what really matters: what a person is doing right now. In contrast, Albatross replaces these legacy systems with AI that learns continuously from live behavior, updating in milliseconds as users browse, search, and explore without any manual intervention or retraining. Notably, until now no platform could adapt instantly to changes in user behavior. Albatross is the first to do this.

“Our mission is to close the discovery gap,” said Dr Kevin Kahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Albatross. “Everyone has felt the frustration of seeing the same generic recommendations over and over. Our system perceives and adapts instantly, so every search and feed reflects the user’s intent at that very moment. From our conversations with a broad range of CEOs, we know they all want to adopt AI, but most efforts fail because they treat it as an add-on. The real opportunity is to rethink how experiences are shaped — to make every interaction intelligent, adaptive, and alive. That’s what Albatross does: it learns and reasons in real time, understanding intent the moment it happens.”

Albatross’s two flagship products – the Real-Time Discovery Feed and Multimodal Search. The Discovery Feed dynamically curates inspiring products and content in real time, while the Multimodal Search engine refines results based on evolving intent, even bridging in-store and online journeys through contextual and image input. The platform operates with enterprise-grade reliability at virtually zero latency.

Albatross has made the world’s first platform for real-time product and content discovery – one that learns, reasons, and adapts as users interact.

Early pilots have shown triple-digit uplifts in engagement and product discovery. Integration takes less than seven weeks from signature to deployment, and the platform operates with enterprise-grade reliability, handling billions of data points. The company’s research on cold-start discovery, presented at RecSys 2025, now powers its production platform at scale.

For MMC Ventures, the investment was as much about timing as technology. “Personalization is entering a new era,” said Mina Samaan, General Partner at MMC Ventures. “Albatross moves beyond static algorithms to build systems that understand context as it happens. Their real-time architecture represents a step change for how businesses engage customers online.”

Redalpine, which led Albatross’s foundation round in 2024, increased their investment further: “We backed Albatross from the very beginning because of the team’s exceptional depth in AI and personalization,” said Dr Marc Moesser, Investor at Redalpine. “In just a year, they’ve gone beyond what even the largest platforms achieve with real-time infrastructure that adapts instantly to user behavior.”

As content and commerce continue to explode, discovery is becoming the defining challenge of the digital economy. Albatross’s goal is to make digital experiences adaptive – transforming the way people find what inspires them, in real time.

Media images can be found here. 

About Albatross AI A.G.
Albatross is pioneering real-time discovery with the first infrastructure for sequential embedding models trained on live events. Founded in 2024 by former Amazon AI leaders Dr. Kevin Kahn and Dr. Matteo Ruffini, together with serial entrepreneur Johan Boissard, Albatross is headquartered in Baar (Zug) with an office in Zurich and a team of 14. The company has raised $16 million from MMC Ventures, Redalpine, and Daphni.

About MMC Ventures
MMC is a leading European venture capital firm with a unique research-driven approach. It invests in early-stage transformative technology companies that utilise AI and data science across themes including enterprise AI, fintech, data-driven health and cloud & data infrastructure. Examples of companies MMC has backed include: Synthesia, Copper, Blackwall, Interactive Investor, Current Health, YuLife.

About redalpine
redalpine is the pan-European venture capital firm that empowers GameChangers. Founded in Zurich in 2006, with offices in Berlin, London, and a presence in San Francisco, redalpine brings together financial investment, operational expertise, and a vast international network to help ambitious entrepreneurs transform their vision into a reality. redalpine has over $1bn in assets under management and has backed some of Europe’s most disruptive software and science companies, including N26, Taxfix, Mistral, Klarna, Proxima Fusion, 9fin, and Aktiia. 

About daphni
daphni is a B Corp venture capital firm investing from seed to Series A in sustainable and breakthrough technologies. Its portfolio includes Back Market, Swile, Hubcycle, and Geev. Daphni is also behind Dastore (with Carrefour) and Time4, a fund dedicated to inclusive entrepreneurship.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Albatross press office on media@usealbatross.ai

Albatross raises $12.5 million to reinvent real-time product discovery for the modern web




Albatross raises $12.5 million to reinvent real-time product discovery for the modern web

Former Amazon AI leaders raise $12.5M to deploy AI that understands user intent in real time, transforming how millions discover products and content online. The platform learns continuously from live behavior, replacing static recommendation systems with dynamic intelligence that adapts moment-to-moment.

Zurich, Nov. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Every click online tells a story. Yet the systems behind most of the internet still treat users as static profiles, recycling yesterday’s data to predict tomorrow’s intent. Albatross, a Zurich-based AI company founded by former Amazon AI leaders, has raised $12.5 million in new funding to rewrite that logic with the world’s first platform for real-time product and content discovery – one that learns, reasons, and adapts as users interact.

The round was led by MMC Ventures with participation from Redalpine, Daphni, and strategic angels, bringing Albatross’s total funding to $16 million, following a $3.5 million foundation round in September 2024 led by Redalpine. The company’s platform is already serving billions of live events and tens of millions of predictions each month across marketplaces, retail, and travel platforms worldwide, processing approximately a hundred million products and tens of millions of end users.

Albatross founders: (L to R), Dr Matteo Ruffini, Dr Kevin Kahn and Johan Boissard. 

Founded in 2024 by Dr Kevin Kahn and Dr Matteo Ruffini, both former Amazon AI leaders, alongside serial entrepreneur Johan Boissard, Albatross is tackling what the team sees as a fundamental gap in the AI revolution. While much of the industry focuses on large language models that generate content, Albatross is building the second pillar of AI: understanding how users perceive and interact with content in real time. It is built on transformer-based architecture with sequential embedding models trained directly on live events.

Traditional recommendation systems look backward, using batch-trained models that rely on popularity, similarity, or user history. They struggle to capture what really matters: what a person is doing right now. In contrast, Albatross replaces these legacy systems with AI that learns continuously from live behavior, updating in milliseconds as users browse, search, and explore without any manual intervention or retraining. Notably, until now no platform could adapt instantly to changes in user behavior. Albatross is the first to do this.

“Our mission is to close the discovery gap,” said Dr Kevin Kahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Albatross. “Everyone has felt the frustration of seeing the same generic recommendations over and over. Our system perceives and adapts instantly, so every search and feed reflects the user’s intent at that very moment. From our conversations with a broad range of CEOs, we know they all want to adopt AI, but most efforts fail because they treat it as an add-on. The real opportunity is to rethink how experiences are shaped — to make every interaction intelligent, adaptive, and alive. That’s what Albatross does: it learns and reasons in real time, understanding intent the moment it happens.”

Albatross’s two flagship products – the Real-Time Discovery Feed and Multimodal Search. The Discovery Feed dynamically curates inspiring products and content in real time, while the Multimodal Search engine refines results based on evolving intent, even bridging in-store and online journeys through contextual and image input. The platform operates with enterprise-grade reliability at virtually zero latency.

Albatross has made the world’s first platform for real-time product and content discovery – one that learns, reasons, and adapts as users interact.

Early pilots have shown triple-digit uplifts in engagement and product discovery. Integration takes less than seven weeks from signature to deployment, and the platform operates with enterprise-grade reliability, handling billions of data points. The company’s research on cold-start discovery, presented at RecSys 2025, now powers its production platform at scale.

For MMC Ventures, the investment was as much about timing as technology. “Personalization is entering a new era,” said Mina Samaan, General Partner at MMC Ventures. “Albatross moves beyond static algorithms to build systems that understand context as it happens. Their real-time architecture represents a step change for how businesses engage customers online.”

Redalpine, which led Albatross’s foundation round in 2024, increased their investment further: “We backed Albatross from the very beginning because of the team’s exceptional depth in AI and personalization,” said Dr Marc Moesser, Investor at Redalpine. “In just a year, they’ve gone beyond what even the largest platforms achieve with real-time infrastructure that adapts instantly to user behavior.”

As content and commerce continue to explode, discovery is becoming the defining challenge of the digital economy. Albatross’s goal is to make digital experiences adaptive – transforming the way people find what inspires them, in real time.

Media images can be found here. 

About Albatross AI A.G.
Albatross is pioneering real-time discovery with the first infrastructure for sequential embedding models trained on live events. Founded in 2024 by former Amazon AI leaders Dr. Kevin Kahn and Dr. Matteo Ruffini, together with serial entrepreneur Johan Boissard, Albatross is headquartered in Baar (Zug) with an office in Zurich and a team of 14. The company has raised $16 million from MMC Ventures, Redalpine, and Daphni.

About MMC Ventures
MMC is a leading European venture capital firm with a unique research-driven approach. It invests in early-stage transformative technology companies that utilise AI and data science across themes including enterprise AI, fintech, data-driven health and cloud & data infrastructure. Examples of companies MMC has backed include: Synthesia, Copper, Blackwall, Interactive Investor, Current Health, YuLife.

About redalpine
redalpine is the pan-European venture capital firm that empowers GameChangers. Founded in Zurich in 2006, with offices in Berlin, London, and a presence in San Francisco, redalpine brings together financial investment, operational expertise, and a vast international network to help ambitious entrepreneurs transform their vision into a reality. redalpine has over $1bn in assets under management and has backed some of Europe’s most disruptive software and science companies, including N26, Taxfix, Mistral, Klarna, Proxima Fusion, 9fin, and Aktiia. 

About daphni
daphni is a B Corp venture capital firm investing from seed to Series A in sustainable and breakthrough technologies. Its portfolio includes Back Market, Swile, Hubcycle, and Geev. Daphni is also behind Dastore (with Carrefour) and Time4, a fund dedicated to inclusive entrepreneurship.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Albatross press office on media@usealbatross.ai