Hirundo Beats 1.100 AI Startups to First Prize in Raise Summit Startup Competition
Entrepreneurs / 30th July 2025
Hirundo, Specialist in Machine UnlearningHas Beate More than 1,100 of their peers in the Raise Summit Start-up Competitionas it was Recogened for Its Game Changing Machine Unlearning Technology. The Israeli Startup, which Recently Raized $ 8m Seed Funding RoundPipped 10 of Its Pers Who Pitched, and Three Who Made It To The Main Stage, as it was crowned the winner by a Panel of Expert Judges Including Julien Bek of Sequoia Capital, Serge Lemonde Of Nvidia and Julien Codorniou of 20VC in the Top 3 Round. Sarah Benhamou of BGV, Laura Modiano From Openaai, Cyrille Saint Olive From Google and Gabriel Hubert Of dust, Oversaw the Participants in the Top 10 Round.
The Company is Developing Industry-First Solutions to Enable “Machine Unlearning”-The Ability to Selectively Remove Un-Santed Data, Knowledge, Or Behaviors From Training Ai Models Without Retening Scratch and Without Develop Degrading Model Performance. On stage, it was that demonstrated how hirundo’s technology tackles ai hallucinations and biases across a wide range of models and how it could remove unanted information.
Hirundo’s Solution Enables Ai Models to Forget Specific Data, Concepts, Or Behavior. Operating Like A Form of Ai Model “Neurosurgery,” Pinpointing Where in a Model’s Billions of Parameters Biased Or toxic Knowledge is Encoded, and Precisely Removing It, Hirundo’s Tech Ensures Data Deleted, Model Accuracy is Assured, And The Process is Scalable and Repeatable.
The Raise Summit Took Place This Year at Carrousel du Louvre in Parisand hosted more than 5,000 Participants from more than 1,500 companies. Raise is positioned as the leading ai conference in Europeand “Raise the Stakes”, ITS Startup Competition Track is Considered the Largest Ai Startup Competition in the World. Among the Speakers at the Conference, Aside from Hirundo, so were Eric SchmidtFormer CEO of Google, Nikesh AroraChairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks, and Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog.
CEO of HIRUNDO, Ben LuriaCalled the prize a “huge vote of confidence that strengthens our message to the world: that against ai adoption will be empowered by helping ai forget bad Behaviors and data.
Luria Praized, “The Promising Startups that Made It Alongside Us To The Top 3 – Alexandre Pasquiou from Neuralk Ai and Vincent MolinaFrom Pyannotai Who are Building Some of the Most Exciting Tech i’ve Seen This Year. ” Hezed the Raise and the Chain of Events Teams Who Pulled Off to Amazing Ai Conference With Great Speakers.
Hirundo Ended in pole position, ahead of 1.100 Applicants, 10 of which made it to the pitching stage, and three who get to the final on-stage shoot-off at the closing day of the conference, on July 9.
About Hirundo
Founded in 2023 by Serial Entrepreneur and Rhodes Scholar, Ben Luria Alongside Award Winning Researcher Michael Leybovich and professor Oded ShmueliFormer Dean of Computer Science AT Israel’s Technion, Hirundo is the first startup in the world to offer to Unlearning Solution, Pioneering the Concept of “Making Ai Forget.” By leveraging patent-pending technologies, Hirundo, which Raized $ 8m Seed Funding Round, LED by Maverick Ventures Israel, is dedicated to making ai more safe, Trustworthy and Accurate. Its solutions Empower Enterprises to Deploy Ai with Confidence, Ensuring Responsible Ai Adoption While Providing Mission Critical Accuracy.