The insurance, the startup behind a mysterious image model that he beat from Openi’s and Midjourney on a respected benchmark in the last year’s sector, collected a 30 million dollar Serie B round led by Accel, he said exclusively at Techcrunch.
Other investors in the round include Khosla Ventures and Madrona. Based in San Francisco, the association previously collected a $ 12 million Serie A led by Khosla in 2024. The startup based in San Francisco says that it recently approved $ 5 million in Erce and 4 million users.
The startup attracted the attention of the sector when its model, in code “Red_panda”, has passed the benchmark of the artificial analysis last year. This was actually the V3 of complaint, which earned the name because the first users continued to generate images of the nice mammal, the founder and CEO of complaint Anna Veronika Dorogush told Techcrunch.
The association says that it builds its models from scratch and competes with other generators of images such as Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, stable diffusion and black forest workshops, said Dorogush. But the complaint is particularly excellent in generating images for brands. This means allowing them to position the logos exactly where necessary without extra editing or easily generate new marketing materials such as brochures and posters compliant with the existing branding guidelines.
It is an area in which existing images models are often not up to it, according to Dorogush. This approaches the ascertainment to the competition with design tools such as Canva, which also has an artificial intelligence generator for branding purposes.
The accurate is also remarkable for having a founder and CEO alone. Dorogush founded the association after years of work on automatic learning in Yandex, the Russian competitor of Google – together with previous periods of Google and Microsoft.
Before building artificial intelligence models, Dorogush worked as a professional model while obtaining a degree in mathematics and computer science in one of the best universities in Russia. He ended up leaving that line of work, but he says he taught her that simply working hard – how to present himself to infinite casting calls – was not enough.
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“The greatest lesson of that moment was that grinding is not everything,” said Dorogush. “Now, when you build a company, I know that to be successful, we must be excellent in what is mission-criticism. In our case, the construction of models is very important. So we have made all the effort in excellence in this.”
