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Esperanto Reaps $58M To Speed Development of Its 7nm AI Chip

Xconomy

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge.

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Five Years After Y Combinator First Admits Biotechs, They’re Dug In

Xconomy

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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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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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. With the benefit of all their insights, I winnowed the list to 12.

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San Diego’s KnuEdge, Stealthy Since 2005, Unveils Neural Tech

Xconomy

The technology is available for use in neural computing to support machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and signal processing. The videos showed the beheadings of American journalist James Foley and other captives in 2014 and 2015. I SIS confirmed his death in its Dabiq magazine in January.