Early Game Ventures announces the completion of a \u20ac500,000 round at Pre-Seed Kyndred, a Romanian startup that builds “AI” with which we will interact radically differently in the future with any type of artificial intelligence.companioni<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founded by two serial entrepreneurs, Alex B\u0103raru and Rare\u015f Mo\u015fescu, who already have a business worth over 15 million euros, the startup Kyndred looks at interacting with artificial intelligence in a completely different way: a user finds it uncomfortable to have conversations with dozens of AI agents or robots in all the applications they have to work with, be it banking, for paying utilities, a favorite online store, an app where they listen to music, etc. As a result, the user must have someone to assist him on a daily basis, to teach him his habits and to navigate the increasingly crowded AI environment. Transactions (GMV) companion<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Although Kyndred may be simplistic AI interfaces, we believe that they will be much more than that: super-apps that will make us completely forget about the notion of interface. These super-apps will not build a conversation, but an environment for the user, with which he will feel very familiar. They will not be a chatbot. Nor an assistant that you call and fire when he finishes what you had to do with his help. But a specific person, with a face, voice and the ability to remember what you said last week, who will know what your favorite food is, what your hobbies are, how you prefer to spend your time, when you have to pay the installment at the bank, car insurance and much more, and will assist you in your daily tasks. We invested in Kyndred because they build exactly this super-app and they do it by approaching the problem from a perspective that almost no one else is willing to adopt: networking in the AI era”, explains Dan C\u0103lug\u0103reanu, Partner, Early Game Ventures. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Of this Kyndred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every age of computing has a winning interface, and at first, this always feels like a made-to-play app, rather than a future replacement for something quite popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In its day, MS-DOS lost the battle to the Windows system and the mouse that made interacting with the PC much easier. Smartphones then came to replace an entire generation of equipment, although at first no one believed that from an iPhone, for example, you will be able to pay bills, listen to music, take photos, write emails or have business video calls. Each time, the winner was the solution that reduced the distance between the desire to get something and the actual get-go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The reason why we think AIs are AI assistants is not related to their technical capacity. Assistants are transaction-based: you open it, extract the information you need, and close it. It’s relationship-based: you go back to , and you do it without necessarily having a concrete task to complete. This difference, although it seems sentimental, is actually These companions Higher Companions ei<\/p>\n\n\n\n essential, since the success of interfaces does not depend on their computing power, but on the frequency of use. The need to have company is the reason with the highest frequency why a human being opens an application or a device. And frequency, in the end, means distribution, virality”, Dan C\u0103lug\u0103reanu also explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Most AI characters today are actually text in a chat window. We build characters with a face, voice and memory, who respond to you in real time and remember what you told them. Company, not conversation. Our ambition is for your character to help you be a better version of yourself: to encourage you to get out of the house, to see people, to get organized. Medita\u021bii.ro we built it without investors; at Kyndred we found in EGV a partner who sees the same future as us. The investment goes into the product, in the infrastructure and in the first key people in the team”, says Alex B\u0103raru, co-founder and CMO, Kyndred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From idea to traction<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea of developing Kyndred’s first AI came from the need to have an AI for Meditatii.ro, the business that the two have developed in recent years. As this assistant did not exist on the market, the two founders created it themselves in just 6 months. Character profesor<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before the product was ready, from the first animations, hundreds of users from the community of the two showed interest in buying it. Thus, Kyndred started in a unique way: it earned its first money by selling an AI in a launch pre-campaign, following animations that went viral. The main AI developed by Kyndred \u2013 Maya \u2013 now has, months after its launch, already over paying customers. companion 3 150<\/p>\n\n\n\n “An AI character is not a language model with a picture attached. To feel like someone is there, animation, voice and memory have to work together, in real time. Maya doesn’t just read a text. She speaks to you. On this foundation we built Kyndred.” \u2013 explains Rare\u0219 Mo\u0219escu, co-founder and CEO, Kyndred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The funds raised in this round will be directed entirely towards accelerating product development (improving functionalities, developing others), growing the customer portfolio and developing the team. Currently, Kyndred is looking for an AI engineer and a product development engineer. companion Maya companions<\/p>\n\n\n\n Early Game Ventures (EGV) II is a venture capital fund capitalized by the Recovery Equity Fund, managed by the European Investment Fund and financed through PNRR within Next Generation EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early Game Ventures announces the completion of a \u20ac500,000 round at Pre-Seed Kyndred, a Romanian startup that builds “AI” with which we will interact radically differently in the future with any type of artificial intelligence.companioni Founded by two serial entrepreneurs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,12,6,3],"tags":[882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16560,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions\/16560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}