Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users.

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JUNE 14, 2018

million with Heritage Bank of Commerce and a four-year term loan of up to $7.5 The company said the new funding will go towards new contracts and expansions, invest in new technology platforms, and provide excess capital. million with Horizon Technology Finance Corporation.

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JULY 12, 2017

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.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

Rostoker’s legacy lives on inside TAE through the company’s technology platform, called, appropriately, “Norman” In the last 18 months that technology has demonstrated consistent performance, reaching over 50 million degrees in several hundred test cycles.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It also is a burgeoning sector.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

As e-commerce continues to grow, one part of that business, one area continues to be a very difficult area to scale efficiently--the labor intensive, back end warehouse, shipping, and fulfillment operation. That allows our customers in e-commerce to be able to take a single item, or one or two from the shelf for delivery to customers.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a study by the US Department of Commerce , women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more money than women in non-STEM positions. Deep Learning Analytics. Using artificial intelligence to compartmentalize and discover patterns within large volumes of data is a forte of Deep Learning Analytics.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. What is Postie?

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JUNE 23, 2017

By the end of the year, we expect to have ten to twelve different types of insurance available on our platform. We're here to serve, as a technology distribution platform, to help those insurance carriers become digital. So how is this different than how you can purchase insurance right now? Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

In other micromobility news … Micromobility data platform Populus raised some skrillz — $3.1 That’s in part because, while cities are down for this new era of transportation and operators are down to share their data, cities still have to find out what to do with this data and how to extract learnings from it.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . The promotion of Ralston is an unsurprising choice for YC, an organization that employs roughly 60 people, many of whom have been affiliated with it in one way or another for years. Automattic acquires subscription payment company Prospress.

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JUNE 15, 2015

Under CEO John Ellis, Tapiture progressed from category browsing, to a socially-driven content and social media commerce discovery site that was more predictive by incorporating Big Data for a tailored user experience. “We We use machine learning to analyze the behavior. We put products they can purchase in the mix.

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JULY 10, 2019

Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business.

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MARCH 1, 2017

We're also excited about the areas around artificial intelligence for certain verticals. There are more consumer, fashion, e-commerce, beauty, lifestyle, health and wellness companies here, and I think those areas see a higher percentage of female entrepreneurs than you might find in semiconductors or software.

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