April 10, 2020
Incoming IBM CEO Arvind Krishna faces monumental challenges on multiple fronts
Arvind Krishna is not the only CEO to step into a new job this week, but he is the only one charged with helping turn around one of…
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April 5, 2020
R&D Roundup: Ultrasound/AI medical imaging, assistive exoskeletons and neural weather modeling
In the time of COVID-19, much of what transpires from the science world to the general public relates to the virus, and understandably so. But other domains, even…
Read articleApril 2, 2020
Flagship Pioneering raises $1.1 billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech
Flagship Pioneering, the Boston-based biotech incubator and holding company, said it has raised $1.1 billion for its Flagship Labs unit. Flagship, which raised $1 billion back in 2019…
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Activity-monitoring startup Zensors repurposes its tech to help coronavirus response
Computer vision techniques used for commercial purposes are turning out to be valuable tools for monitoring people’s behavior during the present pandemic. Zensors, a startup that uses machine…
Read articleMarch 30, 2020
Anorak’s Greg Castle on early-stage investing during a crisis
As the venture landscape adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic and seismic shifts in public markets, early-stage VCs are reassessing which bets they’re making, along with questions they’re asking…
Read articleMarch 25, 2020
Helm.ai raises $13M on its unsupervised learning approach to driverless car AI
Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity to remove some of the bottlenecks in the development of autonomous vehicle technology thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning.…
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Espressive lands $30M Series B to build better help chatbots
Espressive, a four-year-old startup from former ServiceNow employees, is working to build a better chatbot to reduce calls to company help desks. Today, the company announced a $30…
Read articleMarch 20, 2020
Hospital droid Diligent Robotics raises $10M to assist nurses
Twenty-eight percent of a nurse’s time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like fetching medical tools. We need them focused on the complex and compassionate work of treating patients,…
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Glisten uses computer vision to break down product photos to their most important parts
It’s amazing that in this day and age, the best way to search for new clothes is to click a few check boxes and then scroll through endless…
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Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics
Amazon and others have raised awareness of how the in-store shopping experience can be sped up (and into the future) using computer vision to let a person pay…
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