“Strengthening Support to Accelerate the ‘AI Sommelier’ Business, Enabling Liquid DX with 1 Drop in 1 Minute”
ExtenD Secures Funding Through Coordinated Loans from Japan Finance Corporation and Saga Bank
We have secured funding through a coordinated loan provided by the Saga Branch of the Japan Finance Corporation and Saga Bank. This funding aims to accelerate the full-scale development of our AI Sommelier business and strengthen our organizational structure.
ExtenD, a startup emerging from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), has developed a system that quickly and easily obtains the “chemical fingerprint information” of various liquids using AI Sommelier technology, which uniquely advances electrochemical measurements with ultra-sensitive diamond electrodes (see Figure 1). By utilizing ExtenD’s proprietary feature extraction technology (patent pending) on spectral signals from food, beverages, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and bodily fluids (blood, sweat, urine), we visualize slight component information differences between solutions. Our business covers areas such as anomaly detection, digital transformation (DX), quality control, taste evaluation, and condition prediction.
Figure 1. AI Sommelier technology that rapidly and simply visualizes the chemical fingerprint information of various liquids (complex spectra reflecting chemical component information in the solution).
AI Sommelier Technology Introduction YouTube:
https://youtu.be/zJJky_PCJ4A?si=6l5vjuOdHsc-buE_
Press Release from Japan Finance Corporation
https://www.jfc.go.jp/n/finance/sougyou/pdf/saga240607a.pdf
Press Release from Saga Bank
Support for the Startup Developing “AI Sommelier” – Collaborative Financing with the Japan Finance Corporation
https://www.sagabank.co.jp/news/release/files/release_20240603-1.pdf
