Top 16 AI Booktech startups

Oct 22, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

These startups develop Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools for book discovery, smart recommendations, book translation and voice narration, reader interest and feedback analyzing.
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Country: Norway | Funding: $28.6M
Iris is an AI Science Assistant, helping R&D double productivity when seeking out new opportunities in published research. Iris.ai uses a combination of keyword extraction, word embeddings, neural topic modeling, word importance based similarity of document metrics and hierarchical topic modeling. The approach is mainly unsupervised but we utilize an evaluated annotation set from our community of AI Trainers for benchmarking and improving our tools.
2
Country: Germany | Funding: $117M
Inkitt is a digital publishing platform that uses a computer algorithm to predict book success based on reader behavior.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $101M
ElevenLabs is a research company developing AI voice synthesis software for creators and publishers.
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Country: USA | Funding: $15.5M
The world’s first AI reading coach that works with real books.
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Country: USA | Funding: $13.1M
StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit is designed to predict how well an audience will receive a book before it's even published. StoryFit is AI technology that analyzes book manuscripts and movie scripts to identify hits for publishers and studios
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Country: UK | Funding: £2.8M
Deepzen provides sector-specific voice solutions to create audiobooks and voiceovers through ground-breaking technology. Deepzen produces and co-publishes audiobooks using artificial intelligence that syntheses the human voice to replicate emotions and intonations.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
Lex develops modern word processor that enables a radically new way to write.
8
Country: USA
Kadaxis uses data science to improve book discovery across the publishing value chain, for authors (at AuthorCheckpoint with metadata and marketing tools), publishers (with metadata optimisation and data APIs) and readers (at experimental book discovery site BookDiscovery).
9
Country: Israel | Funding: $2M
AnyBook is a collaborative platform that allows its users to find, trade, borrow, and share books on their tablets, phones, and computers.
10
Country: UK | Funding: £25K
Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
11
Country: Germany
Tolino's ebook reading app features text to speech, which will allow users the ability to have their books read aloud.
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Country: USA
Storybooks uses AI to help create personalized stories that build literacy, creativity, and social-emotional intelligence.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org