SMBC日興證券

2023年6月21日

日本啟動流量提出了32美元係列B沒有代碼AI平台——新資金專門針對企業的人工智能工具的快速增長,與1100 +客戶使用通量產品-通量Inc .,日本領先的人工智能平台開發人員,宣布44億日元(約3200萬美元)在B係列資金由DNX企業,和包括現有投資者的典型企業和日本新投資者共同投資,青空銀行企業投資,Salesforce公司,索尼的創新基金,SMBC日興證券,NTT Docomo公司。這額外的資金帶來流量的總募集資金56億日元(約4000萬美元),加速通量的持續發展通量AI——任何代碼AI平台。通量Image1:市場概述人工智能可以讓企業方便地利用人工智能技術預測分析等自然語言處理(NLP)和大型語言模型(llm),無需任何事先編碼技能或知識。近年來,商業環境快速變化由於llm等人工智能技術的出現和生成人工智能。盡管有這些進步,許多公司在日本努力采用人工智能的技術運用到他們的企業由於缺乏專業知識和人才需要理解和實施。為了應對這些挑戰,通量形成了一個專家小組進行深入研究和人工智能技術領域內的服務開發。Image2:沒有代碼AI平台通量人工智能AI通量是一個人工智能平台,支撐著幾個沒有代碼的解決方案,使企業可以輕鬆地將人工智能技術運用到他們的操作。當開發解決方案,包括優化或預測分析功能,它通常需要大量的時間和開發成本結構的可用數據,人工智能可以使用它。通量能夠有效地開發基於AI的解決方案,因為每一個解決方案是建立在相同的通量AI架構。Image3:通量每月收集超過100 tb的數據在其服務,存儲在一個公共數據庫。 Those data are used to train its models to increase performance for each service, while maintaining compliance with data governance best practices and privacy regulations. Image4: Over 1,100 publishers and advertisers are using FLUX services, with enterprise customers making up the largest customer segment. Throughout the past few years of rapid growth, the churn rate across FLUX services has stayed low at 0.2%, indicating strong customer satisfaction. Growth strategy and use of funds FLUX will leverage the funds raised for three primary purposes to fuel its continued growth in the Japanese B2B software market. 1. Enhancement of current products FLUX AI's applications today focus on digital advertising and marketing, with solutions for optimizing ad revenue, ad operations, and online audiences. Development will continue on each of these services to further improve their effectiveness and maximize ROI to customers. New features in development include the use of generative AI for marketing applications such as generating ad creatives and content. FLUX will continue to provide a range of services that help to solve various challenges within the advertising and marketing industry. 2. Horizontal expansion FLUX aims to leverage the FLUX AI platform to bring the benefits of AI to functions beyond advertising and marketing. There are many other business functions which could be made simpler or more efficient through leveraging AI, and FLUX will continue to develop simple solutions for its clients to increase productivity and decrease operational costs. 3. AI research Since its founding, FLUX has conducted research on AI technologies ranging from predictive analytics to NLP and LLMs. The Series B funding will accelerate these research efforts as well as enabling hiring of more AI engineers. Series B participants - Existing investors : DNX Ventures, Archetype Ventures - New investors: Japan Co-Investment, Aozora Corporate Investments, Salesforce Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, SMBC Nikko Securities, and NTT Docomo Ventures - Debt financing: Resona Bank, Shoko Chukin Bank About FLUX FLUX is a venture-backed startup which develops no-code AI platform FLUX AI. Several no-code solutions are based on FLUX AI, each of which enables businesses to leverage AI in their operations. FLUX's mission is to maximize ROI for its clients by simplifying technology.