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New investment by SVV III Limited Partnership
New investment by SVV III Limited Partnership.
About this update from Mindflair Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n5 June 2024\nMindflair plc\n(\"Mindflair\" or the \"Company\")\nNew investment by Sure Valley Ventures III Limited Partnership\nSure Valley Ventures leads $1.1 million investment in Inspeq AI\n \nMindflair plc (AIM: MFAI), the company investing in next-generation technology focused on AI, notes the announcement made by Sure Valley Ventures (\"SVV\") regarding the first investment by Sure Valley Ventures III Limited Partnership (\"SVV3 Fund\"), in which it has an investment. \nSVV3 has led a $1.1m funding round for Inspeq AI, a transformative full-stack AI Ops platform, alongside Delta Partners and a number of other leading investors.\nInspeq AI aims to become the trusted source of safe and reliable AI development, enhancing generative (\"Gen\") AI application deployment with its comprehensive platform designed for effective and efficient production. The platform addresses AI performance issues throughout the Large Language Model (\"LLM\") development lifecycle, ensuring optimal safety and ethical compliance. Inspeq AI's advancements have notably reduced security and hallucination (events in which machine learning models produce outputs that are coherent and grammatically correct but factually incorrect or nonsensical) issues by up to 80%, significantly improving reliability and trustworthiness.\nThe company was founded by Apoorva Kumar and Ramanujam Macharla Vijayakumar, who have prior experience at Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and LinkedIn.\nInspeq AI plans to invest these new funds into their full-stack LLM AI Ops platform, which assists developers in optimising all Gen AI production and development phases, from testing and evaluation to monitoring, performance, and guard-railing of B2B and Enterprise AI applications. It will also expand its team in Applied AI, Data Science, and Full Stack Development, and extend its operations in Ireland, London, and India. Inspeq AI's mission is to provide businesses with tools to confidently deploy AI solutions in production environments, mitigating AI-related risks and fostering a trustworthy and secure AI future.\nThe SVV3 Fund has to date received commitments of over €30 million, of which Enterprise Ireland has committed to invest 50% or circa €15 million and plans to invest in 15 high growth AI software companies in sectors such as Enterprise, Immersive Technologies and ...