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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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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. With a formalized venture fund, Microsoft now has a seat at the table. Microsoft did not outline a specific pace of investments to be made from the fund, or its size.

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With Pellini on Board, Maris Sets Course at Section 32

Xconomy

Maris acknowledged last year that he was laying plans to raise a new fund, after investing nearly all of the first $160 million he had raised for Section 32. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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With Pellini on Board, Maris Sets Course at Section 32

Xconomy

Maris acknowledged last year that he was laying plans to raise a new fund, after investing nearly all of the first $160 million he had raised for Section 32. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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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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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

socalTECH

My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. Can you talk about how your company is funded? We're also funding it out of pocket.

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Crowdfunding an HIV Vaccine: Dr. Rubsamen of Immunity Project

Tech Zulu Event

For those just tuning in, The Immunity Project is a nonprofit initiative using a unique combination of crowdfunding and venture capital, along with a novel machine learning approach in devising an HIV vaccine. Applied machine learning techniques developed by Microsoft. “ Let’s Talk Funding.