Heex Technologies, a Paris, France-based deeptech startup that provides data management for autonomous vehicles, raised €3.2 million in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by Paris-based VC Karista, with participation from Techstars, Google Black Founders Fund, and Bpifrance, alongside top business angels such as Alexei Chemenda.
The funds will be used to support product R&D and acquire the first customers.
Bruno Mendes Da Silva, co-founder, and CEO says, "We are looking forward to the upcoming months as we want to scale the company to address data-intensive businesses and enable their adoption of Smart Data. Data now has a bigger footprint than the aviation industry, and it’s just getting started. Additionally, we are committed to fostering sustainability by massively delivering our technology, with the world becoming more conscious about being efficient to slow global warming.”
Heex Technologies has developed an event-driven approach to automate the push of relevant data (the Smart Data) to the right teams within their organization via their intuitive web platform. It assists development teams with a more efficient and faster development process to develop better autonomous vehicles.
The company works with programs based in the United States, such as Plug in Play, Microsoft for Startups, and Nvidia's Inception program.
Company: Heex Technologies
Raised: €3.2M
Round: pre-Seed Round
Funding Month: November 2022
Lead Investors: Karista
Additional Investors: Techstars, Google Black Founders Fund, Bpifrance, and Alexei Chemenda
Company Website: https://www.heex.io/
Software Category: Smart Data Management Software
About the Company: Founded in 2019 by Bruno Mendes Da Silva, Arnaud de La Fortelle, Ph. D, and Etienne Boutan, Heex Technologies provides a data management software solution for R&D teams working on advanced artificial intelligence. . The startup also provides web services to improve productivity and workflows by enabling users to quickly request and collect the data they need to find the needle in the haystack by focusing on the 1% most pertinent data. Currently, the company has clients across America, Europe, and Asia and working on use cases such as autonomous driving, digital twins, predictive maintenance, and computer vision. Heex was chosen as one of the top ten European clean mobility startups, as well as one of 30 Black-led European startups to receive a share of Google's $2 million Black Founders Fund.
Source: https://techfundingnews.com/black-led-french-autonomous-driving-startup-picks-e3-2m-to-eliminate-terrible-drivers/