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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. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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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. Let AI write the script. Along with several of Raven’s core members, Lyu left Baidu in 2018 to start rct.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Prepare for Their Big Break

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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. I needed to resolve how I was going to distribute my product. Get Your Playbook Together. I am a big proponent of the mentorship program.

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