Six-week immersive program featuring eight
founders concludes with a Generative AI Summit
Today, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs announced that each of the
eight startups participating in their Generative AI Accelerator
secured pilots or proofs of concepts with Comcast, NBCUniversal,
and/or Sky. The startups will formally conclude the program during
a Generative AI Summit held tomorrow at the Comcast Technology
Center in Philadelphia.
“Given the caliber of the startups selected for the LIFT Labs
Accelerator, it’s no surprise that we have identified growth
opportunities for each one of them,” said Sam Schwartz, Chief
Business Development Officer, Comcast. “We are excited to continue
learning from these innovative startup founders to deepen our
understanding of the potential of emerging technologies such as
generative AI.”
During the six-week accelerator, the founders worked
side-by-side with teams at Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky to share
insights and scope out projects that demonstrate the power and
relevance of their technology to large enterprises. They also met
with leaders at other corporations to understand how those
organizations are leveraging generative AI, pitched to a curated
group of venture capitalists investing in this category, and worked
with experts in media training, enterprise sales, and marketing to
hone their pitches and go-to-market strategies.
“This is the most immersive enterprise accelerator program we
could have ever hoped for,” said Andrei Papancea, CEO and Founder
of NLX. “By week two we had already started the procurement process
and by halfway through the program we had built a pilot
side-by-side with the business units. Our Comcast partners have
been nothing short of amazing in helping us navigate the
complexities of the organization, while somehow squeezing in lots
of fun networking events with the rest of the cohort
companies.”
The startups are addressing a range of use cases including
customer experience, video analytics, and deep fake detection.
Chosen from hundreds of applicants from over twenty countries, the
companies were identified for their relevance to Comcast
NBCUniversal, quality of the founding team, and experience working
with other major enterprises. Following the program the companies
will continue working with Comcast NBCUniversal to execute their
pilots and explore evolving them into long-term partnerships.
The Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator is hyper-focused
on business development opportunities for startups at a variety of
stages selling to enterprises. The program is led by Laura Plunkett
and Luke Butler, Executive Directors of Startup Engagement at
Comcast NBCUniversal, in partnership with VentureFuel – an
organization that helps corporations around the world innovate
through startup collaborations. Since LIFT Labs launched its first
accelerator in 2018, 84% of the portfolio companies have landed a
proof of concept, pilot, or commercial deal with Comcast
NBCUniversal.
Meet the companies in the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs
Generative AI Accelerator:
Charisma.ai is a technology that helps creatives develop
interactive narratives. It enables audiences to be cast inside
experiences and speak to characters to hyper-personalize the
narratives to each individual in real time. Charisma is working
with a number of different parts of the business, including Sky and
Universal Destinations and Experiences, to bring characters to life
through interactive experiences. Founders: Guy Gadney &
Annette Parry | Oxford, UK
Coactive brings structure to organizations’ unstructured
image and video data by automatically analyzing at scale to
understand what’s inside the content and make it searchable.
Coactive is working with Comcast to leverage their video analysis
capability to create personalized content for viewers.
Founders: Cody Coleman & William A. Gaviria Rojas | San
Jose, CA
Inworld is a platform that enables developers and
creators to build AI-driven virtual characters and deploy them into
their immersive experiences, such as games, virtual worlds,
interactive content, and training. Inworld is working with Comcast
NBCUniversal, Sky, and other business units on proofs of concept
that leverage their technology to create interactive, animated
characters and personalized experiences for sports.
Founders: Ilya Gelfenbeyn & Michael Ermolenko | Mountain
View, CA
Monterey AI accelerates product development by
synthesizing and analyzing unstructured data from multiple sources,
including user feedback, support tickets, social media mentions,
and call logs, enriched by business and behavioral metrics.
Monterey is working with a number of teams at Comcast to bring
scalable and actionable product analytics solutions company-wide.
Founders: Chun Jiang & Ben Kramer | Dublin, CA
NLX is a conversational AI platform built for enterprises
enabling automated, measurable, and highly scalable customer
experiences across channels. Comcast's Customer Experience team is
piloting NLX's technology to transform interactive communications
with customers across a range of platforms. Founders: Andrei
Papancea, Vlad Papancea, & Peter Szerzo | New York City, NY
Reality Defender’s proprietary deepfake and AI-generated
content detection helps enterprises, governments, and platforms
prevent associated risks across audio, video, images, and text.
They are piloting their technology with NBCUniversal, including
exploring solutions to secure outbound NBCUniversal content in the
public space. Founders: Ben Colman, Ali Shahriyari, &
Gaurav Bharaj | New York City, NY
Rephrase.ai leverages generative AI to create lifelike
digital avatars, making video creation as simple as writing text.
With their personalization software, businesses can connect with
customers on a one-on-one level by delivering personalized videos
at scale for sales, marketing, and customer education purposes.
Comcast's Customer Experience team is currently collaborating with
Rephrase.ai on a pilot project that utilizes their technology to
create personalized customer education videos. Founders:
Ashray Malhotra, Shivam Mangla, & Nisheeth Lahoti | San
Francisco, CA
Wscripted’s goal is to expedite producers' and studios'
discovery of diverse writers and content thereby expanding
opportunities for those writers. They are developing a technology
that can quickly summarize narratives and are exploring
opportunities to work with NBCUniversal to understand how a tool
like this can potentially be helpful in their review of writers’
materials. Founders: Ellie Jamen & Marine Haziza | New
York City, NY
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