Full-Time
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Venture studio for AI-based startups
$155k - $175kAnnually
Junior, Mid
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Must be located in the Bay Area and available to work from our Palo Alto office at least three days a week.
AI Fund creates and launches companies that use artificial intelligence to address complex challenges in various fields such as manufacturing, mental health, maritime shipping, and education. The company collaborates with innovators and technology leaders, acting as a minor co-founder to provide essential support and resources that help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality efficiently. Unlike traditional venture capital firms, AI Fund focuses on early-stage startups, offering strategic guidance and investment to help them grow. The company earns revenue by taking equity stakes in the businesses it helps develop, allowing it to benefit from their success as they expand. The main goal of AI Fund is to promote innovation in AI applications and create a positive impact on society.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$385.9M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2017
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Affineon Health Expands AI Inbox to Tackle Provider Burnout, Improve Patient CareDENVER, Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Affineon Health, a leader in AI-powered solutions to streamline the inbox for healthcare physicians and providers, today announced successfully closing a $5 million oversubscribed funding round. GPG Ventures led the seed round with participation from existing investor, AI Fund, and several other new investors.The funding enables Affineon to accelerate product development, expand its fast-growing market presence, and deepen its impact on one of healthcare's most pressing challenges: the administrative burden on providers that's a leading cause of physician burnout."We're empowering healthcare providers by automating tedious tasks so they can spend more time on patient care and less on administrative work," said David Norris, Co-Founder and CEO of Affineon Health. "This oversubscribed round underscores how important solving this problem is and positions Affineon to scale our AI inbox to improve even more lives."Transforming Provider Inboxes with AIBy automating routine lab results, prescription renewals, and patient communications, Affineon reduces inbox volume up to 80% and saves providers over five hours per week, while improving response times and the patient experience. Seamlessly integrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems, providers reclaim their time in Affineon's AI inbox without disrupting existing workflows.Investor Perspectives"By slashing the time doctors spend wrangling their inbox, Affineon reduces a major healthcare pain point," said Claire England, Investment Partner at GPG Ventures. "We're thrilled to back this experienced team's innovative AI inbox and their dedication to improving physician efficiency and patient care.""The healthcare industry is hungry for solutions that combine advanced AI technology with practical applications," said Matt Miller, Managing Partner at Headwater Ventures
One AI company has topped Hugging Face’s Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard – and it’s neither Google nor OpenAI. Founded in December 2023, India-based Jivi AI, which is building AI-powered co-pilots for doctors and consumers, scored a 91.65 average in the leaderboard for its latest model. In comparison, both OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Med-PaLM 2 – the latter a specifically medical LLM – scored in the low 80s. This indicates that Jivi’s model is most reliable in tasks such as understanding and generating clinically accurate information, responding to patient queries, and interpreting medical terms.Jivi AI co-founder Ankur Jain / Photo credit: Jivi AIAI Fund, the venture studio of Google Brain and Coursera founder Andrew Ng, poured an undisclosed amount of funding into Jivi just last month – the fund’s first Indian investment