The Berlin startup that wishes to offer Zapier a run for its cash • TechCrunch

Zapier and IFTTT are, as we speak, very massive platforms for creating automation guidelines for texts or getting two apps to “discuss” to one another through APIs. Nevertheless, these are ‘hammers to crack nuts’ with regards to processing easy duties wanted inside companies. Moreover, should you embrace photos or video, or if the textual content referred to is unstructured, instruments that require that construction received’t work so properly, if in any respect.

This was the considering behind the Berlin-based Levity startup. It got here up with a method for companies to create AI-powered, ‘no-Code’ guidelines for automating duties in a method that non-technical individuals can use.

It’s now raised $8.3 million in seed funding, co-led by Balderton Capital (out of London) and Chalfen Ventures, in addition to a variety of Angels.

Based by Gero Keil and Thilo Hüllmann, Levity permits companies to make use of easy templates to automate workflows, with, says the agency, an underlining AI which takes care of the heavy lifting. This makes use of NLP and laptop imaginative and prescient in a single horizontal platform to parse unstructured information varieties – similar to photos, texts, and paperwork. Levity’s prospects vary from trend and actual property to transport, advertising and marketing, social media, scientific analysis, and others. 

Typical use circumstances embrace robotically tagging and routing incoming emails or electronic mail attachments; triaging buyer assist tickets; sorting incoming paperwork into respective folders; or tagging visible stock information, similar to product photographs.

Slightly like Zapier, the platform integrates with Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, Dropbox,  Airtable, and others. The startup says the system can also be SOC2 Kind I licensed and GDPR compliant.

In an announcement, Gero Keil, co-founder and CEO of Levity mentioned: “Companies and their prospects deserve the identical alternatives to reap the advantages of AI and automation as their greater rivals.”

The platform launched this previous August subscription costs begin at $200 per thirty days.

James Clever, accomplice at Balderton Capital added: “There’s an rising divide between corporations with the means to capitalize on AI and automation, and people smaller companies who lack the sources to take action.  Levity is on a mission to shut this divide.”