.1Iris.ai JourneyNovember 17, 2025 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard Iris.ai - ten years laterIt is almost unfathomable that we’ve been working on Iris.ai for a full decade. Reflecting on this journey will take way more than a blog post, but as the journey continues and we have work to do, the memoir will have to wait. The path has been full of twists and turns, and I sometimes think of our Iris.ai as a cat - she has nine lives, of which we’re now in something like the fifth.
.2Iris.ai JourneyJune 6, 2024 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard Incredibly well positioned, and finally properly fundedLast week, we were finally able to announce publicly what we’ve worked on finalizing for months; our Series A of almost €8M was closed, doubling the amount of funding we have raised total and placing us thoroughly in territory we have not been in before: Properly funded for the next couple of years. It’s a luxury, it’s a privilege, it’s a commitment. And most importantly, it is an opportunity.
.3Iris.ai JourneyJanuary 13, 2023 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard What the EIC grant means to the co-founders of the companyThe European Commission judges identified Iris.ai as having the potential to support European scientific research and AI development against a growing competitive landscape coming from the US and China
.4Use CasesNovember 8, 2022 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard Search – is not just search.One issue we bump into on a regular basis is the idea of Search engines, or Search tools. When I say that, you know very well which tools I mean, right? You have a very clear idea of what I mean, when I say Search. Except… So did the client we spoke to yesterday, and I promise you, their definition was radically different from yours.
.5Iris.ai JourneyApril 2, 2022 Anita Schjøll Abildgaard On being Top 10 in the AI for Good XPRIZEOur social media recently reminded us that two years ago, Anita stood first on the stage of TED in New York, then together with Victor in front of the jury, for the finals of the AI XPRIZE. As a competition that stretched out for more than 4 years, it was sometimes hard to communicate to […]