Top 10 AI Booktech startups

Updated: February 28, 2024

These startups develop Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools for book discovery, recommendations, book translation and narration, reader interest and feedback analyzing, scientific research.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $117M
Inkitt is a digital publishing platform that uses a computer algorithm to predict book success based on reader behavior.
2
Country: Norway | Funding: $20.3M
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.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $15.5M
The world’s first AI reading coach that works with real books.
4
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
5
Country: USA
Booxby identifies, quantifies and predicts reader experience based on the text itself, representing the foundation for a radical new way to approach book discovery. Booxby’s algorithms analyze a book to generate comps (comparable titles) and predict reader experience.
6
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.
7
Country: Denmark | Funding: $3.1M
UNSILO provides artificial intelligence tools and solutions for publishers to grow new business opportunities and improve customer experience and publishing workflows
8
Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
Lex develops modern word processor that enables a radically new way to write.
9
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).
10
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.
11
Country: USA | Funding: $1.8M
Speechki is an audiobook recording platform for publishers to scale their audiobook inventories by several times using synthetic voices.
12
Country: UK | Funding: £25K
Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
13
Country: UK
BAM develops AuthorBot - service for book publishers, agents and authors from digital innovation experts BAM Mobile. We create author chatbots on platforms including Facebook Messenger, Slack and Telegram, and deliver voice activated book discovery and reading services for Amazon Echo and Google Now.
14
Country: Germany
Tolino's ebook reading app features text to speech, which will allow users the ability to have their books read aloud.
15
Country: USA
Storybooks uses AI to help create personalized stories that build literacy, creativity, and social-emotional intelligence.