Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

In a keynote talk Tuesday night that was a headliner event for Startup Week San Diego, Calacanis observed that it doesn’t feel like the millennial generation is doing as well financially as their parents’ generation.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In startup world these days, the word “biotech” is increasingly accompanied by “computational” and two, two-letter initialisms: AI and ML. Another startup looking to take advantage of those improvements, South San Francisco-based Genesis Therapeutics, has scored $4.1 Andreessen Horowitz, also.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial intelligence innovation has become part of our everyday lives—retailers use it to tailor the product recommendations they make; biotech companies hope it can create customized medicine. But its shortcomings, born of human biases, are becoming apparent as well. A new organization called Ada-AI, which is based in.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A year ago, the leading Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings pegged the global number of artificial intelligence researchers and professionals at 300,000 or less—just as the unmet demand for such experts was pushing salary offers to as much as $1 million.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

San Diego’s prowess in computer science, medical devices, and life sciences makes it a natural hub of innovative digital health companies. This is part of a series of articles about the finalists for the Xconomy Awards San Diego. Here are brief profiles of the finalists.

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Xconomy

MARCH 6, 2019

Erasca, a biotech startup run by the former CEO of Ignyta, debuted in December with $42 million and an audacious plan to “erase cancer,” but provided little explanation as to how. Erasca is still keeping many of those details under wraps. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

It seems like ancient history now, but “big data” was once a hot field with startups, investors, and big companies all buzzing with hype. Then the tech industry moved on, and marketers crowned data science and machine learning the Next Big Things (at least until blockchain takes over).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I rarely attend startup pitch competitions anymore. But a startup contest held Tuesday at a machine learning conference in Cambridge, MA, put a twist on the typical scenario: the startups were judged by an artificial intelligence software program, instead of a panel of investors.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The San Diego artificial intelligence company Brain Corp. topped the chart for raising the most venture capital in San Diego during the third quarter that ended September 30, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. As Xconomy reported in July, Brain Corp.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2019

They’re startups that are developing products in a wide range of sectors, including life sciences, agriculture, and artificial intelligence. A majority of the startups are from Texas, although some come from elsewhere in the US and world, including California, Virginia, Mexico, and Israel.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

” That question, along with a realization that she found herself asking it repeatedly over a variety of her purchases—from clothing items to housewares—led her to found FindMine, an e-commerce startup that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help shoppers find clothing items that.

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Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

A 25-person startup developing advanced computing tools to speed up pathology work has raised its first institutional financing from a group of investors led by Intel Capital, the corporate investment arm of the chipmaker.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Not long after ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT ) acquired San Diego-based LonoCloud in 2013 , former LonoCloud executives Tom Caldwell and Hossein Eslambolchi met for coffee at the Specialty’s Café and Bakery in University City. Caldwell said they soon raised $600,000 from angel investors to start what would become CyberFlow Analytics.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

The promise, and pitfalls, of artificial intelligence became more apparent in the last year, and for Dave Copps, founder of A.I. What can help to smooth the transition to our new machine learning-enabled future is an effort on the part of technologists to build trust between ourselves and these tools.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2018

The debut Wednesday of Dynam.AI, a San Diego startup offering its expertise in artificial intelligence, also marks a shift that has been underway for the past year or so at Analytics Ventures, a local fund that invests in tech deals. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

Yet, new startups—aided with tech tools like artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the like—are trying to reinvent how to connect shoppers with the goods they want to buy.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2018

Intel Capital wasn’t ready to disclose exactly how many startups it has funded, but it highlighted a dozen tech companies that got almost two-thirds of the total ($72 million) with innovations in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors, and coaches—free of charge. The bootcamp-like machine learning course is part of a broader Google initiative to bring computer science instruction that it designs.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The current land rush in chip development, spurred as new technologies such as artificial intelligence create new needs, is pitting established semiconductor companies like Intel and Nvidia against tech titans like Facebook that are building their own chips. So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers?

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2017

That was one of the issues raised Wednesday during a panel discussion at a conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning held at the MIT. But if driverless cars become a reality, those vehicles will also need to be able to reliably communicate with each other, using wireless communications technologies.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made big headlines almost six years ago when he wrote a blog post called “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?” Along the way, Khosla has invested in a range of startup companies—including several tackling radiology, cardiology, and mental health (see slide and list at bottom)—that are.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2018

In the Boston office of GE Ventures, managing director Alex de Winter is overseeing investments in companies like Veracyte, which is applying machine learning to genomic sequencing technology to help doctors distinguish benign growths from cancer.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2018

The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and related technologies are being used to connect ovens, refrigerators, and other kitchen appliances to the Web. When it comes to connected homes, the hottest spot is located in your kitchen. Feeling unsure about cooking that fish dish?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 20, 2017

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA ), the Santa Clara, CA-based maker of specialized graphics processing chips that have become workhorses in artificial intelligence, has joined a group of investors that put $20 million into TuSimple, a Chinese startup developing self-driving technology for long-haul trucks.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Now, some founders are seeking to use tech tools such as chatbots, artificial intelligence, analytics, and mobile to help clients remedy those deficiencies. As the last year has shown, the tech industry has a significant problem with sexual harassment and ensuring that women are treated equitably in the workplace.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

XRC Labs, an accelerator program focused on e-commerce and retail startups, held a demo day for its latest class Thursday, featuring innovations in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies. Consumers are changing faster than the retailers,” and that is resulting in shoppers bypassing traditional stores.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2019

Drug discovery startup Insitro burst onto the scene last year with ambitions of using machine learning techniques to find new therapies. Insitro announced Tuesday that Gilead (NASDAQ: GILD ) will pay the South San Francisco-based startup $15 million to kick off a three-year research collaboration.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Eric Schmidt believes we’re entering an era where artificial intelligence will underpin most facets of human life. But we don’t yet have enough people with the right skills to build that future. talent shortage is the most pressing challenge facing the industry today.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2018

As the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology draws near, one of the best arguments for understanding the significance of the convergence of data science and the life sciences may lie in what came out of the 2013 sale of San Diego’s EcoATM.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It was an eventful year for the artificial intelligence industry. software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019. software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019.

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Xconomy

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s why startups are turning to new technologies like 3D scanning and machine learning software to produce customized clothing that can be made for the masses. People want to buy a size,” says Patrick Donnelly, director of marketing at Fit3D, a San Mateo, CA-based maker of e-commerce software.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Walmart’s Store No 8 innovation arm has acquired an Israeli machine learning startup , the retail giant announced Wednesday. Aspectiva joined the two-year-old Store No 8 Monday, and its employees will remain in Tel Aviv.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In an interview before the late-night ceremony, Connect CEO Greg McKee said the awards highlighted the diversity of innovation in San Diego—from an oxygen mask that signals if a patient develops trouble breathing (TereoPneuna) to artificial intelligence technology developed for self-driving vehicles (Brain Corp.).

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