Tunisia’s Clusterlab secures $600,000 in pre-seed funding to advance Arabic digital content with AI

In 2020, Haithem Kchaou and Chehir Dhaouadi spotted a gap in how Arabic content was being created and consumed online. 

And with 465 million Arabic speakers globally, the need for Arabic digital content that can be personalised and made more accessible to speakers is a no-brainer.

So with that in mind the pair co-founded the Tunisian-born, UAE-based ClusterLab. 

• And they've just raised a cool $600,000 in pre-seed funding!

💰 Investor lowdown: The round was led by regional and angel investors, including Karim Beguir, co-founder and CEO of the AI start-up InstaDeep.

⚙️ Let’s break it down: 

ClusterLab offers different AI products, two of which are called Reedz and Elm. 

📚 Reedz is a mobile app offering concise, AI-powered summaries of audiobooks and podcasts in Arabic.

📚 Elm is an edtech app that seeks to make learning more accessible and engaging through AI-driven personalisation.

🤝 Partnerships

• Collaborated with InstaDeep on a national AI initiative for Tunisia's Ministry of Higher Education.
• Earned a spot in the Nvidia Inception Program for AI startups.

🔮 Flashforward

ClusterLab will use this fresh funding to look at research and development with a focus on enhancing their large language models (LLMs) and NLP capabilities to refine their UX across offerings.