Jason Sherman, CEO and co-founder of Philadelphia-based startup Spinnr, wants to help you find friends with AI’s help, writes Ryan Mulligan for PHL Inno.
Spinnr, which is one of the ventures within the company, is a social networking app that makes it possible for people to meet and make friends through short videos. Vengo AI is the other venture. It uses artificial intelligence to help a person create what is essentially a personality clone.
The goal of the company’s founders was to find solutions to the “loneliness epidemic,” but they have since found many other opportunities in the world of artificial intelligence.
Many big names in AI have taken an interest in the local startup. The team behind Spinnr and Vengo AI have already received $100,000 in grant credits from Nvidia since the start of the year, along with $150,000 from Microsoft and $50,000 in grants from OpenAI, Stripe, and ElevenLabs.
Now, Sherman is hoping that venture capital will follow suit as he looks to raise a $3 million seed round.
“It’s complete and utter validation that what we are doing has meaning to some of the largest, if not the largest, tech companies in the world,” said Sherman.
This is the fourth startup Sherman has founded.
Read more about Spinnr and its prevalence using AI in PHL Inno.
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