Pear X, a 12-week accelerator run by Pear VC, capped its cohorts at 20 startups and held its biannual demo day in San Francisco last week. The program distinguishes itself from Y Combinator with investments up to $2 million and keeping participants under wraps until the event. Top VCs attended, and five companies generated the most buzz.
Speridlabs builds spatial foundational models for 3D space, rivaling Runway and Google's Genie. Its Mundus tool keeps geometry persistent when changed. Saia designs a chip running inference directly from flash storage, claiming eight times capacity and four times less power than Nvidia's Jetson. Founder Ayaan Govil convinced Pear VC co-founder Mar Hershenson to fund the startup.
Ren offers a secure AI personal assistant with on-device data and a fully automated voice system. Veros creates an AI trust and estate planner managing $250 million in AUM and seeking a trust charter. Datum expedites industrial design by helping engineers reuse previous work.
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