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HealthTensor Collects $5M For AI-Powered Medical Decisions

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Los Angeles-based nstartup HealthTensor, which is developing artificial intelligence (AI) software aimed at helping to augment medical decision making, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round. HealthTEnsor said it will use the funding to scale its software engineering and implementation team.

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Algorithmia, Co-Founded By USC Grad Student, Gets $2.4M

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The startup--which was co-founded by Kenny Daniel, who was recently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at USC--says that it has created an online platform to let software engineers find different algorithms for us. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Rakuten Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, and angels.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

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Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.