Hirundo Beats 1,100 AI startups to First Prize in RAISE Summit Startup Competition

Hirundo, specialists in machine unlearning, has beaten more than 1,100 of their peers in the RAISE Summit Start-Up Competition, as it was recognised for its game changing machine unlearning technology. The Israeli startup, which recently raised an $8M seed funding round, pipped 10 of its peers who pitched, and three who made it to the main stage, as it was crowned the winner by a panel of expert judges including Julien Bek of Sequoia Capital, Serge Lemonde of NVIDIA and Julien Codorniou of 20VC in the Top 3 round. Sarah Benhamou of BGV, Laura Modiano from OpenAI, Cyrille Saint Olive from Google and Gabriel Hubert of Dust also oversaw the participants in the top 10 round.

The company is developing industry-first solutions to enable “machine unlearning” — the ability to selectively remove unwanted data, knowledge, or behaviors from trained AI models without retraining them from scratch and without degrading model performance. On stage, it was demonstrated how Hirundo’s technology tackles AI hallucinations and biases across a wide range of models and how it could remove unwanted information.

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