A Note From Our Co-Founder & CEO, Marty Beard
by Marty Beard | Jan 15, 2021 | Company News | 2 minute read
by Marty Beard | Jan 15, 2021 | Company News | 2 minute read
Raising money and growing a startup during a global pandemic has certainly been a challenging and novel experience. But making real progress during this unprecedented time is somehow more rewarding – there was no playbook, no ‘best practice’ to follow for 2020.
And that is why I am so proud to announce that we have now raised a total of over $9M and expanded our investor base to include BlueRun Ventures, Longley Capital, Validus Growth Investors and several notable early-stage angels. This is an ideal amount of money to drive alwaysAI to great success.
We began this journey in late 2018 with a simple view and goal:
Thousands of developers have now joined us on this journey, creating a wide variety of CV applications, from autonomous boats to retail occupancy counters to smart city monitors. Every day we see new ideas coded and put into production using the alwaysAI platform – this is an exciting time for our developers, enterprise customers and partners!
And now we have the right amount of capital to push our vision forward; specifically:
This is just the start for alwaysAI. I want to thank our growing developer community for joining our “vision” – and we look forward to a great 2021.