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Not even the people inventing AI always acknowledge what it ’s good for besides writing email . But there are seed - stage companies , like Y Combinator grade and 2024 Disrupt Battlefield player today , that are doing something mind - blowingly useful with AI .
today use LLM AI to mechanically design tumid , expensive events . Using its own database of 400,000 global locus and a proprietary model free-base on a compounding of OpenAI , Anthropic , and its own cryptography , today electronic mail venue , caterer , and the alike to pile up bids . It will even make phone calls to nudge a response to unanswered e-mail . It then form the information and acquaint it to the event contriver , who can make decisions and sign on contracts .
The company was founded in 2023 by sisters Anna Sun , CEO , and Amy Yan , COO , and has since been used to book over $ 4 million worth of events , including for technical school company like Google , Amazon , Notion , and Supabase , Sun evidence TechCrunch .
The idea came about after Sun graduate from MIT . Her older sister , Yan , was work at Google some yr after graduating from Johns Hopkins . Eight years apart , both of them served as year presidents for their universities , each organizing many tumid effect .
Sun recalls spend hr “ foretell ice ointment trucks to get quotes ” or the time she had to in person peck up 2,000 McDonald ’s McNuggets because there was n’t a way to order a bulk delivery and like there was an promiscuous way .
Sun know she wanted to found a startup to come up to this , and once the startup was admit into YC in the summer of 2023 , she talked her babe into discontinue her Google job to help oneself her .
“ We got our acceptance letter the sidereal day before my commencement , and then within that Clarence Day , Amy put in her two weeks ’ posting at Google , ” she recalled .
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Anyone interested in using today begin by filling out an intake human body to describe the event , location , budget , and any specific needs .
“ Some people are like , oh , I desire encounter spaces that have high ceiling , because we have grandiloquent squad members . So it can be very originative , ” she describes .
Since it launch , today has been spreading mainly by word of mouth through its early users , who are mostly corporate effect planners . One of them introduced today to a VC , who readily vest $ 300,000 . Then the client wrote a halt as well , Sun say .
Nowadays just elicit a $ 2 million political party seed round ( meaning no lead investor ) from VCs , admit Y Combinator , Basis Set Ventures , Hike VC , VentureUs , Underdog Labs , Decacorn Capital , SBXi , E14 , and lots of other holy man .
The startup joins an increasingly crowded field . Established histrion like Cvent andEventbrite are summate AI prick to their offerings , for instance . And Partiful , the New York - based upshot - be after app , has been named Google ’s app of the year .
