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Udacity Achieves 50,000 Nanodegree Grads Amid Company Reorganization

Xconomy

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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

TechCrunch LA

That’s likely due to a continually expanding toolkit that now boasts a customer relationship management system, efficient dispatching and routing, invoice management, mobile applications for field professionals and marketing analytics and reporting tools.

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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. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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Interview With Jamie Montgomery, March Capital Partners On The Firm's New Fund

socalTECH

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Fund I was really focused on AI, and what we now call big data and machine learning, and we focused on the cloud and Internet infrastructure, plus made a couple of investments in India and in gaming.

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Five Years After Y Combinator First Admits Biotechs, They’re Dug In

Xconomy

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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

Xconomy

. —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. With the benefit of all their insights, I winnowed the list to 12.

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Brain Corp.’s First Product is a Brain for Floor-Scrubbing Machines

Xconomy

The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures. stands to gain valuable experience toward the development of autonomous, machine-learning systems and self-driving cars. emerged in the collective glow of the Obama Administration’s brain initiative. Like many startups, Brain Corp.

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