# Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs

> Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 88%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://lift.comcast.com/

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs is a VC fund in Philadelphia focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs offers a world-class accelerator for connectivity, media, and entertainment entrepreneurs.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 41% |
| Software | 10 | 31% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 22% |
| Media and Entertainment | 5 | 16% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 38% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 11 | 34% |
| Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Grant | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 72% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| Israel | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Iceland | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nauto | Nauto is an AI-technology company that’s improving the safety of commercial fleets today and the autonomous fleets of tomorrow. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how drivers interact with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. Nauto’s intelligent driver safety system assesses how driversinteract with the vehicle and the road ahead to reduce distracted driving and prevent collisions. With this knowledge, Nauto is powering the development of self-driving technology that brings the best of human driving to autonomy. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Crossing Minds | Crossing Minds is the smartest platform powering perceptive recommendations that drive online discovery and engagement. Founded and led by world-renowned AI pioneers and powered by the latest advances in deep learning, Crossing Minds instantly delivers precise, session-based recommendations that don’t infringe on or jeopardize customer privacy.We help businesses engage their customers. We help people discover products they love. We help turn curiosity into loyalty. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Stimulus | Stimulus is a relationship intelligence platform that uses data and analytics to help companies make better purchasing decisions. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Personal AI | Personal AI builds memory infrastructure for AI systems. The company's identity-based memory architecture powers specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) that deliver superior precision, latency, and cost efficiency compared to centralized cloud LLMs. By replacing context-window-based personalization with persistent, multi-layered memory,Personal AI enables real-time, personalized AI experiences at scale. The platform is purpose-built for distributed deployment on telecommunications infrastructure, supporting privacy-first, on-network AI integrated with voice, text, and data services. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Archetype AI | Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| FOUNT Global, Inc. | Employee Experience and Friction Management |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| EDGE Sound Research | EDGE Sound Research seeks to connect people closer to a moment by blurring the line between the real and virtual worlds. It is game-changing technology that serves as the foundation for a new sonic dimension. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Credal.ai | Credal.ai is an artificial intelligence that keeps a single Living Document for your team. It pulls data from your source systems, such as Slack, documents, and task trackers. As things change, it interprets and updates the Living Document, informing only those who need to know about the changes. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Imaginario AI | Imaginario AI is the Zapier of video search, understanding and transformation. A best-in-class suite of APIs and AI creative agents for non-technical teams. Our technology makes any video in the world searchable without time-based metadata - make your video library searchable down to scene level across visuals, sound, and speech in a multimodalway. We want to empower millions of non-technical teams in video-heavy industries with easy-to-use APIs and plug-and-play features without the need to invest in complex video ML models and infrastructure from scratch. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Deci AI | Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 16, 2023 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Comcast](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [216 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/216-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blue Lake](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-lake-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs invest in?

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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