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March 15, 2024

11 AI startups to watch, according to investors

Investors from Speedinvest, Runa Capital, Apex Ventures and Octopus Ventures share the AI startups on their watchlists

Tim Smith

5 min read

Let’s face it, it’s an AI founders’ world and we’re all just living in it. Entrepreneurs with experience at leading research labs continue to raise mega seed rounds or sign high-profile commercial deals with big clients, and investors are hailing the technology as the phoenix lifting the startup sector from the ashes.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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