Hirundo Beats 1,100 AI startups to First Prize in RAISE Summit Startup Competitors
Entrepreneurs / thirtieth July 2025
Hirundo, specialists in machine unlearning, has overwhelmed greater than 1,100 of their friends within the RAISE Summit Begin-Up Competitors, because it was recognised for its sport altering machine unlearning expertise. The Israeli startup, which lately raised an $8M seed funding spherical, pipped 10 of its friends who pitched, and three who made it to the primary stage, because it was topped the winner by a panel of professional judges together with Julien Bek of Sequoia Capital, Serge Lemonde of NVIDIA and Julien Codorniou of 20VC within the High 3 spherical. Sarah Benhamou of BGV, Laura Modiano from OpenAI, Cyrille Saint Olive from Google and Gabriel Hubert of Mud additionally oversaw the individuals within the prime 10 spherical.
The corporate is growing industry-first options to allow “machine unlearning” — the power to selectively take away undesirable knowledge, information, or behaviors from educated AI fashions with out retraining them from scratch and with out degrading mannequin efficiency. On stage, it was demonstrated how Hirundo’s expertise tackles AI hallucinations and biases throughout a variety of fashions and the way it might take away undesirable info.
Hirundo’s resolution allows AI fashions to overlook particular knowledge, ideas, or behaviors. Working like a type of AI mannequin “neurosurgery,” pinpointing the place in a mannequin’s billions of parameters biased or poisonous information is encoded, and exactly eradicating it, Hirundo’s tech ensures knowledge is absolutely deleted, mannequin accuracy is assured, and the method is scalable and repeatable.
The RAISE Summit happened this yr at Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and hosted greater than 5,000 individuals from greater than 1,500 firms. RAISE is positioned because the main AI convention in Europe, and “RAISE the Stakes”, its startup competitors observe is taken into account the most important AI startup competitors on the planet. Among the many audio system on the convention, apart from Hirundo, have been additionally Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks, and Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog.
CEO of Hirundo, Ben Luria, referred to as the prize a “large vote of confidence that strengthens our message to the world: that wider AI adoption can be empowered by serving to AI overlook unhealthy behaviors and knowledge. We’re proud to pave the approach as the primary machine unlearning resolution in the marketplace.”
Luria praised, “the promising startups that made it alongside us to the High 3 – Alexandre Pasquiou from Neuralk AI and Vincent Molinafrom pyannoteAI who’re constructing a number of the most fun tech I’ve seen this yr.” He thanked the RAISE and the Chain of Occasions groups who pulled off a tremendous AI convention with nice audio system. “It’s thrilling to see how a lot each Hirundo and RAISE have grown since final yr.”
Hirundo resulted in pole place, forward of 1,100 candidates, 10 of which made it to the pitching stage, and three who bought to the ultimate on-stage shoot-off on the closing day of the convention, on July 9.
About Hirundo
Based in 2023 by serial entrepreneur and Rhodes Scholar, Ben Luria alongside award-winning researcher Michael Leybovich and Professor Oded Shmueli, former Dean of Laptop Science at Israel’s Technion, Hirundo is the primary startup on the planet to supply an unlearning resolution, pioneering the idea of “making AI overlook.” By leveraging patent-pending applied sciences, Hirundo, which raised an $8M seed funding spherical, led by Maverick Ventures Israel, is devoted to creating AI extra protected, reliable and correct. Its options empower enterprises to deploy AI with confidence, guaranteeing accountable AI adoption whereas offering mission-critical accuracy.
