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Techstars Names New Los Angeles Accelerator Class

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Techstars Los Angeles has just named the ten companies that will be joining the startup accelerator for its 2017 class, saying its theme this year was "going long on LA and southern California".

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

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Los Angeles-based ‘deep tech’ investment firm Riot Ventures is raising a $75M fund

TechCrunch LA

The firm has largely flown under the radar, but it has been investing in startups applying innovations in automation, artificial intelligence, computer vision, computational biology, material sciences and robotics to industrial products and processes for the past two years.

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

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Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. We spoke with Retina's CEO, Michael Greenberg , to learn more. We see you do that through machine learning and artificial intelligence?

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Clean Energy Entrepreneur Desai on Tech’s Pitfalls & Promise in 2017

Xconomy

To help put things in perspective at year’s end, Xconomy reached out to Nisha Desai, a clean energy entrepreneur in Houston. Xconomy: Do you think 2017 was a. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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5 Technologies Here Today That Will Change Your Life

Startup Professionals Musings

As a new business advisor and technologist, I often think about the large array of opportunities for entrepreneurs as technology seems to be evolving faster and faster. Artificial intelligence (machine learning). Future opportunities for entrepreneurs are endless. Execution won’t be easy.

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The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films

TechCrunch LA

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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