Here Are The Stellar Startup AI Tool Vendors To Know In 2024
AI is the hottest segment of the IT industry right now. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are nine AI and machine learning technology startups, founded in 2018 or later, that solution providers should be aware of.
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Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative AI tool in late 2022 artificial intelligence has been remaking the IT industry. Just about every IT vendors has raced to incorporate AI into their offers and solution providers have sought ways to add AI and machine learning services and expertise to their offerings.
Not surprisingly, AI has been a hot sector for startups. Some are creating the platforms for building and managing AI-based applications and services – and the models that power them – or infusing AI capabilities into existing software. Some startups are providing security for new AI systems and machine learning models while others offer tools for managing the huge volumes of data AI/ML systems need to operate.
All this means that AI and machine learning technologies present a major opportunity for solution providers, MSPs and strategic service providers. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are nine AI and machine learning technology startups, founded in 2018 or later, that solution providers should get to know.
Cranium AI
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Jonathan Dambrot, CEO and Co-Founder
Startup Cranium AI is focused on securing the use of AI across the enterprise. In May of this year the company debuted its Cranium AI Exposure Management offering that enables organizations to secure both the use of internal AI applications and third-party AI systems.
Website: https://cranium.ai/
Hatz AI
Founded: 2023
Top Executive: Jimmy Hatzell, CEO and Co-Founder
Hatz AI, which publicly launched in January 2024, provides a platform that enables managed service providers to build an AI-as-a-Service business with AI applications and agents, vector storage and custom large language models. Offerings include an AI chat assistant and an AI application builder that MSPs use to build custom applications.
Website: https://www.hatz.ai/
HiddenLayer
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Christopher Sestito, CEO
HiddenLayer offers security solutions for artificial intelligence algorithms, models, and the data that power them. Its first-of-its-kind software approach to observing and securing AI is helping to protect the world's most valuable technologies. The target market includes CISOs, security professionals, and developers at Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies.
Website: https://hiddenlayer.com
Liquid AI
Founded: 2023
Top Executive: Ramin Hasani, CEO and Co-Founder
MIT spin-off Liquid AI says its mission is to build “capable and efficient” general-purpose AI systems at every scale. Liquid AI technology includes the Liquid Engine framework for developing and deploying Liquid Foundation Models, what the company calls a new generation of generative AI models.
Website: https://liquid.ai/
MSPbots
Founded: 2019
Top Executive: Daniel Wang, CEO and Founder
MSPbots provides a platform built for MSPs by MSPs to address pain points in people management and ticket processing, offering more than 70 integrations and more than 5,000 prebuilt widgets, dashboards and datasets.
Website: https://www.mspbots.ai/
Tacilent.ai
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Ron HR Johnson, CEO and Founder
Tacilent.ai is a pioneering AI decision platform company. Its SaaS platform, RESSETT, leverages clean data and responsible AI to provide strategic advice and help solve complex organizational challenges. The company focuses on serving enterprises, consulting firms, and mid-size B2B companies across industries like logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, fintech, and aerospace.
Website: https://tacilent.ai
Tecton
Founded: 2018
Top Executive: Mike Del Balso, CEO and Co-Founder
Tecton helps companies activate their data to power AI applications. The platform enables AI teams to easily and reliably compute, manage, and retrieve data as context for GenAI and predictive ML applications. With Tecton, AI teams can move models into production faster, build smarter applications, and drive down costs.
Website: www.tecton.ai
Thread
Founded: 2022
Top Executive: Mark Alayev, CEO and Founder
Thread provides an AI-based service collaboration and in-boxing platform that enables IT managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver incredible experiences wherever their customers work. The company’s system is integrated with professional services automation (PSA) and remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms from leading vendors and works with Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Website: https://www.getthread.com
Vectara
Founded: 2020
Top Executive: Amr Awadallah, CEO and Co-Founder
The Vectara platform is used to embed powerful generative AI features within enterprise applications. Founded by luminaries in the AI/ML/NLP space who designed groundbreaking solutions at Google, Cloudera and Yahoo, Vectara operates globally and has raised more than $53 million in Seed and Series A funding.
Website: www.vectara.com