3 Cool Companies - March [#3]
- Roboflow - https://roboflow.com/
Roboflow is a startup out of Des Moines that specializes in computer vision. At its core, their platform lets developers integrate vision into applications. It’s a pretty incredible idea, basically: enabling machines to perceive the world around us.
With tools to annotate images, assess dataset quality, experiment with configurations, developers can train custom or prebuilt vision models. It doesn't seem like there's many industries that Roboflow wouldn’t work in. Their site includes: Aerospace / Defense, Utilities, Healthcare, Retail, Banking, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Security, Oil / Gas, and Government.
Last March they surpassed 250k users globally. Fortune 100 companies, startups, universities, hardware manufacturers, their appeal continues to grow. Here’s a sweet model I found that interprets baseball cards by brand, grade, statistics, etc.
They raised a $20M series A in 2021 led by Craft Ventures and have been moving quickly since. It’ll be great seeing the innovation they drive in the space, which the partnerships they secure and how their system evolves. - Jenni - https://jenni.ai/
I don’t miss late nights writing essays in college. Crawling towards the word count, finishing half asleep in the library, then realizing I hadn’t transferred a scribbled notepad of citations to Chicago style format. I was a few years late from being able to use something like Jenni. Jenni is an AI text editor that helps you write, edit and cite your work.
With schools already taking aim at AI plagiarism, Jenni’s approach stood out to me. Rather than generating complete academic work, it offers prompts, suggestions and guidance to help you craft your own original content.
It can build an outline to get started, offer auto suggestions and create a ‘resource engine’ library with any sources you’re using. Back to the college analogy, it’s like having your smartest friend automatically proofread and coach you through writers block while it’s happening. Here’s a good video showing how it works.
Jenni’s founder, David Park, has a story that’s equally as impressive. He shared that in 2022, just as Jenni started to gain traction, he was diagnosed with cancer. Thankfully, his treatment was successful and he’s now cancer free! Another update showed that it took 1216 days for them to go from 0-$500k ARR and only 24 days to go from $2.5M to $3M ARR. They’re on track to hit $5M ARR by the end of next month. - Scribe - https://scribehow.com/
Scribe is an AI documentation tool that lets users create step-by step guides for any process. Think about how many times a day you ask, or are asked, “how do you do xyz”? You can use Scribe internally, for onboarding / day to day questions, but also for handling customer inquiries / training docs.
When I first saw Scribe I figured it might still take a decent amount of heavy lifting to create a guide. I wasn’t familiar with their game…
It actually just documents whichever process you want while you work. From there you can customize, add extra descriptions and blur any sensitive info. They’ve got integrations with Confluence, Notion and tons of other CRMs / knowledge workspaces.
Their customer roster is impressive (Intel, Samsung, Microsoft, Nvidia). They raised a $25M Series B in February (their CEO’s blog post about it rocked). Scribe’s on a good trajectory in a market that needs it.
-Bryce