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AI Idol
COMPETITION
@ MIT AI Conference 2020
Come to experience MIT AI Conference 2020 and present your company at the AI Idol.
AI Idol offers innovative startups a unique platform to present their companies and mingle with a high-caliber audience of VCs, angel investors, strategic partners, corporate investors, and industry experts.
Past Participants of AI Idol have met investors, found great talent to recruit, and formed industry partnerships and relationships at the event. Our past AI Idol participants have subsequently raised over $200m of capital from leading investors.
Winners
![Markable AI](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/markable-ai.png)
![Base Operations](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/base-operations.png)
Judges
![](https://www.mitcnc.org/app/media/2019/02/zetta-joycelyn-goldfein.png)
Jocelyn Goldfein
Zetta Venture Partners
Managing Director![](https://www.mitcnc.org/app/media/2019/03/Rohini-Chakravarthy.png)
Rohini Chakravarthy
MBA '99NGP Capital
Partner![](https://www.mitcnc.org/app/media/2018/10/jake-seid.png)
Jake Seid
SB '98, MEng '98Stone Bridge Ventures
Managing Director![](https://www.mitcnc.org/app/media/2019/04/Mike-Cassidy.png)
Mike Cassidy
SM '86, SB '85Apollo Fusion, Inc
Founder & CEO![](https://www.mitcnc.org/app/media/2020/07/Pegah-Ebrahimi.png)
Pegah Ebrahimi
SB '02Cisco Collaboration
COO![](https://www.mitcnc.org/app/media/2020/07/Sam-O-keefe.png)
Sam O'Keefe
SM '12, SB '09Contestants
![Markable AI](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/markable-ai.png)
![RigD](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/rigd.png)
![Infinite Analytics](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/infinite-analytics.png)
![Lincode Labs](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/lincode-labs.png)
![LuminDx](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/lumindx.png)
![Melodia](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/melodia.png)
Melodia
ThoughtForge Inc.
![Glance AI](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/glance-ai.png)
![Base Operations](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/base-operations.png)
![Vahan Inc](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/vahan-ai.webp)
Past AI Idol winners
Where innovative startups pitch. Companies have gone on to raise over $200M from leading VCs
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/realwear-logo.png)
Raised $100M
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/skyline-new.png)
Raised $25M
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/unifyid-logo.png)
Raised $20M
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/dashbot-io-logo.png)
Raised $6M
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/fireflies-ai-logo.png)
Raised $5M
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/voicea-logo.png)
Raised $20M
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/proven.png)
Raised Seed Round
![](https://staging.mitcnc.org/app/themes/mitcnc/assets/images/subtle-logo.png)
Raised Seed Round
- Acceleprise
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Baidu Ventures
- Battery Ventures
- Belcorp
- Bertelsmann
- Bessemer Ventures
- Breyer Capital
- Bose Ventures
- Cisco Investments
- Canaan
- Data Collective
- ff Venture
- FJ Labs
- Fusion Fund
- Greycroft
- Google Ventures
- JLL Spark
- JP Morgan
- MentorsFund
- Microsoft Ventures
- Mindset Ventures
- NEA
- Qualcomm Ventures
- Right Side Capital
- Runa Capital
- Salesforce Ventures
- Samsung NEXT
- Sequoia
- Teradyne
- TLV Partners
- Tsingyuan Ventures
- UpHonest
- Workday Ventures
- Y Combinator
AI Idol is open to MIT alumni-founded start-up companies applying AI, deep learning, machine learning algorithms and techniques to disrupt industries. Applicants may be pre-seed to Series B stage.
Don’t miss the chance to showcase your startup to an amazing panel of judges. Also, grab the opportunity to mingle with high-caliber audience and engage with the MIT AI community.
Future of Infrastructure
With machine learning, design systems that could learn I-O patterns to enable storage optimization and make intelligent decisions
Future of Work
The changing job landscape, remote and on-demand work, and technologies that enhance productivity
Future of Health
Drug discovery, personalized medicine, telehealth, and mental health
Future of Learning
New modes of education and emerging technologies that enable deeper engagement
Future of Economy
Fintech and the economic forces and that are affecting and affected by technology and what this means for you
Future of Media & Entertainment
New forms of news, modes of entertainment, and what the future could look like according to science fiction
Experience a unique event:
- Meet with like-minded founders, leaders, experts, and VCs
- Learn from leading expert speakers who will show you how to apply AI in your organizations
Come for limitless, high-quality networking and learn from those who've done it!
100+AI Experts
Get the playbook from the best AI experts, data scientists, machine learning engineers, founders, execs, and investors.
No hype. No fluff.
600+Attendees
High density of high caliber engineers, machine learning experts, founders, executives & investors.
Unlike any other AI conference!
33+Speakers
Learn, Share and Play with AI experts!
It’s not a “ hype / love fest” with AI.
Deep learning - MIT Style - drink from a firehose!