There was also funding for South African machine
learning startup DataProphet, Nigerian househunting service myPadi, and South African vehicle purchase platform HiCarByeCar, while six Zimbabwean startups got government grant funding.
It purchased vision specialist Mobileye this March; the chipmaker Movidius (the firm responsible for the silicon in DJI's autonomous drones) last September; and deep
learning startup Nervana Systems in August 2016.
Intel continues its push toward a future - proof place in the market with the acquisition of Itseez, a computer vision and machine
learning startup.
More recently, it bought another machine
learning startup called Turi.
While Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire automaker McLaren, according to TechCrunch, the Cupertino - based tech giant recently snagged an Indian machine
learning startup called Tuple.
In other Microsoft - related news, the Redmond company recently acquired the deep
learning startup Maluuba, and to put it simply, it could be considered as a sign that some huge Cortana improvements are coming in the foreseeable future.
Qualcomm acquired Scyfer, the Amsterdam - based machine
learning startup, to further its AI - on - a-chip ambitions.
Matthew Zeiler, founder and chief executive of another deep
learning startup, Clarifai, was more certain.
It continues this trend today by purchasing Maluuba, a deep
learning startup that focuses on natural language processing.
It has one of the world's top deep learning experts, Yann LeCun, running its AI division; the eight - person team from machine -
learning startup Wit.ai, which Facebook acquired in January, is running M.
Ghanaian mobile
learning startup Chalkboard Education has raised EUR 200,000 (US$ 237,000) from the Jacobs Foundation to further develop its business activities in Ghana and Ivory Coast, including increasing access to its tools for rural and remote populations.
Last month Apple purchased machine
learning startup Turi.
Udemy, a San Francisco - based online
learning startup, on Friday announced that it had raised $ 12 million in Series B funding in a round led by Insight Venture Partners.
The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will partner with online
learning startup Knewton and publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for a program aimed at helping millions of at - risk youth transition to traditional schools and prepare for the workforce.
San Francisco - based online
learning startup Udemy has launched a new mobile app to help students enroll in and take courses from their phones.
Since launching in 2010, online
learning startup Udemy has offered learners the opportunity to take online classes from home.
Since launching, online
learning startup Coursera has focused on partnerships with elite institutions.
Benchprep, a digital
learning startup based in Chicago, is rolling out video - based software training courses targeting college and high school students, not adults looking for professional development.
Knewton, a New York - based adaptive
learning startup, has partnered with education publisher Macmillan.
San Francisco - based online
learning startup Udemy says that a quarter of its approved instructors will finish the year with more than $ 10,000 from sales of their self - created courses on subjects ranging from web development and entrepreneurship to yoga and photography.
Online
learning startup Coursera said that it has added 29 new school partners, about half of which are international.
Echo360, a education technology company supported by the Revolution Growth Fund, has acquired social
learning startup ThinkBinder.
Lifelong
learning startup Curious wants to provide teachers of all kinds with the web tools to build their own online classrooms and reach a wider audience of students.
Online
learning startup Coursera is partnering with several schools of education, as well as other institutions and museums, to bring professional development courses to K - 12 teachers online.
Additionally, he led product management for a mobile
learning startup for two years prior to starting Nexlaw Partners.
Foley Hoag LLP recently represented machine
learning startup Indico in its $ 4 million equity seed financing led by Osage Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors.406 Ventures, Boston Seed and Hyperplane.
Depending on the size of the school and scale of the program, blended
learning startup costs can exceed a half - million dollars for the laptops, software, infrastructure and training.
Zinny is the founder and president of Kuepa.com, a blended
learning startup that provides continuing education for adults who do not have the required skill sets to work in today's labor market.
Shanghai claims one on the list: Liulishuo, an English
learning startup with AI - enabled teachers.
She was an early investor in OpenCosmos, Cleo, Q - bot, Kwiziq and Magic Pony, the machine
learning startup that was sold to Twitter last year for $ 150 million.
Math
learning startup Cuemath on Monday said it raised $ 15 million (nearly Rs 102 crore) in its Series B round of funding from...
These pecuniary advances have already netted some results: just this August, deep
learning startup Preferred Networks Inc. raised $ 95 million USD from Toyota to work on self - driving technology.
Machine
learning startup Uptake is buying Asset Performance Technologies, which controls a huge trove of industrial data.
Google is leading acquisitions, with around 10 acquisitions of AI or machine
learning startups since 2011
Most founders use their time in Santiago as a sabbatical, during which
they learn the startup ropes from previous participants who have stayed put in Chile — 132 graduates so far, according to Start - Up Chile's executive director, Sebastian Vidal.
Bradford founded two machine
learning startups since 2009.
After the first day of being there
I learned the startup was going to be on the Colbert Report.
These machine
learning startups range from a university recruiting tool to an artificial intelligence doctor bot.
Microsoft is providing a helping hand to a group of data science and machine
learning startups.
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Craftsy's bread and butter may be classes on quilting and sewing, but its success among students who tend to be less tech - savvy could be interesting to all kinds of online
learning startups.
As new online
learning startups have attracted media attention and investor dollars, lynda.com, a veteran of the industry has remained relatively quiet.
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As it scales, it will likely face mounting competition from other
learning startups like NY - based Knewton and others.
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Apple has acquired several other machine
learning startups recently, including Emotient, Perceptio, and VocalIQ.
But Apple did acquire two machine -
learning startups, Turi and Perceptio, in the past two years.
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