SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 15, 2016

Friday, June 17, 2016 -- The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Zingle had been backed by Rincon Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, and had raised $3M in its Series A funding round in 2016. The company's artificial intelligence (AI) driven tools allows consumers to interact with hotels and other companies for common requests in a natural way, via texting and chat.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

San Diego-based Netradyne , a developer of artificial intelligence and "deep learning" software used for vision recognition--particularly in autonomous vehicles--has raised $21M more in a funding round. percent of the startup; Reliance had invested $16M in Netradyne in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Boost.ai , a European startup which is developing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software for banks, financial institutions, and other enterprises, said this morning that it has set up shop in Santa Monica, setting up its North American headquarters here as it expands to the US. was founded in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As we draw closer to the end of 2016, it is important that we take a moment to look back and reflect on all of the ways technology has inspired us, and transformed the way we live and do work. To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Illumina said the buy will help it add a multi-disciplinary team and capabilities for next generation sequencing (NGS), population scale clinical studies, and machine learning. GRAIL was spun out of Illumina in 2016 as a standalone company. GRAIL is developing a multi-cancer screening test. billion in cash and $4.5

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2021

They were even flagged in a 2016 Harvard Business School case study analysis. By 2016, TSMC had already worked to improve its water purification and recycling efforts — necessary for an industry that consumes between 2-9 million gallons of water per day. And TSMC is already working to address its water consumption. ”

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in the seed round of a startup, New Knowledge , which developed the artificial intelligence software which uncovered a large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S. New Knowledge said it identified the fake accounts behind the large-scale Russian effort to influence U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course).

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Thursday, September 8, 2016 -- LA CEOs - Protecting America from Cyber Attack - Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien. The real-life inspiration for the CBS hit show,"Scorpion", Walter O'Brien, will explain how his company applies high IQ, computer science, and artificial intelligence to mitigate risk, avoid cyber threats and solve global problems.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Kiezkowski and Kozera sold Famebit to Google back in 2016. The startup--led by David Kiezkowski and Agnes Kozera, the former founders of Famebit--said it is looking to help the 85 percent of podcasters who are not monetizing their podcasts, through connecting those podcasters to brand partners.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 -- "Artificial Intelligence. Is humanity at the dawn of a new age of enlightenment, inspired by benign AI enabled tech; or on an unalterable path to computer driven subservience to AI powered, self-aware machines? Friend or Foe?" Explore the Unfolding Mystery of AIs Impact of Humanity.

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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. Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016. What are some of the challenges of big data and machine learning today you have encountered?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. That’s according to Yann LeCun , a machine learning expert and Facebook’s director of A.I.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

The Mobile Majority said it is adding talent in product development, UI, backend, high speed API integration, operations, and machine learning. Elastic was founded by Marcelo Wiermann, who will continue to lead Elastic in Sao Paulo. The Mobile Majority is led by Rob Emrich.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. You may remember it from it’s 2016 appearance on Shark Tank, where it secured $600,000 in funding from Sharks Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence. We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

They left the competition with their lessons learned and came back to win first place in 2017. “To To us, the ‘expert questions’ were like the typical machine learning questions we’d get in a Galvanize classroom,” said Baolin Liu. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

For K-12 school districts to keep up with technology and enable a fully modern, effective environment, they need to augment the fundamentals with key technology advancements and essentials including Artificial Intelligence, updated communication tools, and high-speed networks tailored for educational institutions.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. San Antonio Entrepreneur Center Opens Using Dallas Nonprofit as Model. Austin’s Lucid Aims to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human. Time to look back on the past six months—and some of the top stories of the year so far. and cognitive computing efforts in Austin, TX.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

In summary, it really has been an amazing year and we look forward to supporting additional compelling software companies in 2016. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year? What are the technologies or things you think people out to watch in 2016? they are very rare and I have a lot of bidders.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2018

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

A few years before the presidential election of 2016, with all its Wikileaks, Russian disinformation campaigns, and phony Facebook links, San Diego’s Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK made a strategic decision to expand into identity verification technology. Funny how things work out.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2017

Signs are that the Amazon Echo and Google Home—both equipped with smart voice assistants—will turn out to be blockbuster sellers of the holiday gift season of 2016. Millions of consumers who used to type their search questions on a laptop or the tiny keys of a smartphone are now simply telling a tabletop device what they want.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

That Q4 2016 edition of a quarterly survey by University of San Francisco business professor Mark Cannice rated the overall confidence of the VCs at 3.81 on a scale of 5—-a number that remains almost unchanged in the latest survey taken in March and published Thursday.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I don't know if you've done a career test since leaving school, or thought much about your career, but it's career testing on steroids, using machine intelligence and artificial intelligence. How did you start the company? I spent a lifetime building predictive recruitment tests. versus New Zealand?

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. I moderated the panel, which consisted of experts in the complementary fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. What are the risks and ethics around AI systems?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—IBM’s Watson Health group said that a commercial product could arrive in 2017 that uses machine learning to digest patient scans, medical records, and other information to help doctors with care decisions. Chief operating officer Mike Sherman was named his successor.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

So, going by the traditional schedule, the 2016 iPhone would have been a major refresh, perhaps helping to reverse this year’s slowdown in sales of iOS devices. Redesigned iPhones typically come out in even-numbered years. 2015 saw the introduction of the iPhone 6s, a minor makeover of the previous year’s iPhone 6.

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