Synthesis AI Closes $17 Million Series A

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <u>Synthesis AI<&sol;u>&comma; a developer of synthetic data technologies to build advanced computer vision AI models&comma; has closed <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;17 million<&sol;span> in Series A financing led by new investor <u>468 Capital<&sol;u>&comma; with additional participation from Sorenson Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures and existing investors&comma; Bee Partners&comma; PJC&comma; iRobot Boom Capital and Kubera Venture Capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest round brings Synthesis AI&&num;8217&semi;s total funding to over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;24 million<&sol;span>&period; The new funds will allow Synthesis AI to grow its world-class team and introduce new products to enable companies to build more advanced computer vision models faster&period; The company also plans to expand research surrounding the intersection of CGI and AI with a focus on neural rendering&comma; mixed training &lpar;real and synthetic&rpar;&comma; and modeling of complex human behavior&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Synthesis AI is uniquely positioned to win in the emerging synthetic data space&period; The breadth and depth of Synthesis AI&&num;8217&semi;s platform&comma; the quality of the team&comma; and the extensive list of Fortune 50 customers firmly establish Synthesis AI as a category leader&comma; &&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Florian Leibert<&sol;span>&comma; partner at 468 Capital&period; &&num;8220&semi;We are excited to support Synthesis AI as they push forward their vision to transform how AI models are fundamentally developed&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Synthesis AI is expanding its HumanAPI solution to support the development of advanced digital humans&comma; with new functionalities for pose estimation&comma; action recognition&comma; and high-density landmarks&period; The new capabilities enable advanced applications in the metaverse&comma; Augmented Reality &lpar;AR&rpar;&comma; Virtual Reality &lpar;VR&rpar;&comma; and others in generated media&comma; home &amp&semi; enterprise security&comma; and AI fitness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Last year was a momentous year&comma; and we&&num;8217&semi;re excited to continue growing our teams and products with the support of our terrific investors&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Yashar Behzadi<&sol;span>&comma; CEO of Synthesis AI&period; &&num;8220&semi;Synthetic data is at an inflection point of adoption&comma; and our goal is to develop the technology further and drive a paradigm change in how computer vision systems are built&period; The industry will soon fully design and train computer vision models in virtual worlds enabling for more advanced and ethical AI&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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