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Aira Technologies Raises $13M in Equity Financing to Supercharge Wireless Using AI
Aira Technologies, an AI software technology startup, announced that it has raised $13M in equity financing led by Neotribe Ventures and Acrew Capital. Aira was founded in 2019 by wireless industry veterans including CEO Anand Chandrasekher (ex-Intel, ex-Qualcomm) and CTO Dr. Ravikiran Gopalan (ex-Bell Labs, ex-Qualcomm) along with well-known wireless researchers Dr. Pramod Viswanath (Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Dr. Sreeram Kannan (Professor, University of Washington, Seattle). This round also includes participation from Foothill Ventures and industry angels Ryan Drant (Founding Partner, Questa Capital) and Carl Waldspurger.
Current wireless communications are built on a foundation of human-intuition based protocols and analytically tractable approximations. Machine Learning (ML) techniques, powered by real-time data, can provide radical improvements in wireless communications. Aira’s vision is to harness machine learning to make every wireless connection, in every transport, more than 10x better. The company’s technology provides breakthrough benefits in battery life, latency and reliability. For example, using Aira’s technology, wireless ear-buds can dramatically improve performance while also improving battery life; the same holds for any wearable device from glucose monitors to hearing aids.