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JULY 25, 2017

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The new machine was first fired up in the summer of 2017. “The energy is super tiny. It’s immaterial.

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Technology Artificial Inteligence Google Orange County 354

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. This is Cartken’s first large deployment of self-driving robots on sidewalks.

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Google Technology Artificial Inteligence Chief Technology Officer 189

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. —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.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

The eight-people team is led by Cheng Lyu, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who goes by Jesse and helped Baidu build up its smart speaker unit from scratch after the Chinese search giant acquired his voice startup Raven in 2017. Rct wants to take the experience to the next level by recruiting artificial intelligence for screenwriting.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Los Angeles Software 235

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Nikhil Jain: We plan on doing our product launch in Q2 of 2017. Everything was developed in-house at Idealab. We learned early on that we needed to address that problem.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company. At the time, Barnehama had taken time off from DAQRI and had begun thinking about how to use the technologies he’d developed around computer vision and visualization to have more of an impact on human lives. .

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

As our lives continue to migrate to the Internet – combined with 5 billion mobile phones by 2017 – we’re producing a constant stream of digital exhaust. As the dataverse continues to expand, data scientists must be increasingly familiar with using artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning , in order to do what humans cannot.

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Artificial Inteligence Statistics Company Companies 92

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

They left the competition with their lessons learned and came back to win first place in 2017. “To To us, the ‘expert questions’ were like the typical machine learning questions we’d get in a Galvanize classroom,” said Baolin Liu. Interested in entrepreneurship, web development, or data science?

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. Founded in 2017, Convrg has made a name for itself by developing several popular chatbots and voice products. You can’t expand in the U.S. sitting in India, or on a plane.”.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Google 209

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2020

Empirico, a biotech that has developed tools to analyze genomics data and use those insights to identify potential therapeutic targets, has signed a collaboration deal with antisense drug developer Ionis Pharmaceuticals that includes a $10 million equity investment.

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San Diego Equity Tool Platform 98

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board.

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Technical Review Funding Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

The first commercial product to come out of the effort is likely to hit in 2017. It will be a “summary platform” for electronic medical records, LeGrand says, “to aid physicians and augment intelligence… in understanding clinically relevant information.” This is not taking the place of physicians,” she says.

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IBM IBM Artificial Inteligence San Diego 61

Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Robbie Cabral, CEO and founder of Benjilock , the first biometric and rechargeable smart lock, is a veteran to Eureka Park and recipient of the 2017 CES Innovation Award. With the help of CTA, startup teams have access to insight information in their respective verticals that could guide critical decisions.

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Startup Mentor Artificial Inteligence Research 87

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Inside that solution, we have technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics ,and security for streaming machines, and so forth. We bought our first company in 2017 to create this, and we rolled up a few companies to bring this vision to life. By doing that, we are a turnkey business-in-a box.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

The firm was launched in 2017 by general partners Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, formerly of Susa Ventures and Karlin Ventures, respectively. Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud-native development . Here are some of the other Extra Crunch pieces that stood out this week: 10 immigration tips for luck-struck tech workers.

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Startup Venture Capital Newsletter Tips 223

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

We're also excited about the areas around artificial intelligence for certain verticals. The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. If you think about all the things you need for autonomous vehicles, it's all here in LA.

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Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

There’s plenty more news to chew on as well, from the latest developments in the Zika battle to biotech’s sigh of relief when Medicare spending cuts were avoided (for now). —There were two major developments in the fight against Zika virus, which has begun to affect children born in the U.S. Let’s get right to it.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Upgrading ParkMobile’s license plate-based service with a computer vision based system that recognizes cars as they enter and leave garages has been Metropolis’ mission since founder and chief executive Alex Israel first formed the business back in 2017. In all, Metropolis has raised $60 million since it was formed back in 2017.

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