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Microsoft’s Strategy for Finding What’s Next in Healthcare A.I.

Xconomy

Microsoft is applying the same model it used to launch its quantum computing and chatbot efforts to innovation in healthcare, signaling the company’s ambition and optimism about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence technologies in this enormous endeavor.

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Esperanto Reaps $58M To Speed Development of Its 7nm AI Chip

Xconomy

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. Esperanto plans to use its new influx of capital to produce its first generation of 7-nanometer chips.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge. Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. In addition to capital, Microsoft Ventures will offer startups technical and marketing help.

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service.

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Freenome Snags $160M to Boost Blood Test for Early Cancer Detection

Xconomy

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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Girls In Tech Showcases Women Founders In SF Pitch Competition

Xconomy

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.