by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Deals
More venture capital funds are flowing into start-ups but the money is being concentrated into fewer companies prompting a massive rise in seed stage valuations. Eliot Brown filed this report in the Wall Street Journal: The median size of seed investments—usually the...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Deals
AI-driven analytics firm ThoughtSpot and automated machine learning specialist DataRobot have announced a collaboration to simplify and speed up the design and deployment of machine learning models and the extraction of usable and actionable business intelligence from...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Deals
Anyone who has interacted with Alexa, Siri, or Cortana when things get muddled knows how frustrating they can be. Startup Wluper, which recently raised $1.3 million in seed money, believes that you can make conversational AI more effective by simply narrowing its...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Superfans of wristwatches now have their own version of Tinder that will offer up suggestions for a watch that will match their lifestyle and personality. Called WatchTinder (What else?), the app relies upon the database of its developer, WatchAdvisor, to enable watch...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Last September, Uber agreed to pay $148 million dollars to settle claims related to a 2016 data breach that exposed the personal data of more than 25 million American users. This November, Uber was fined an additional $1.17 million by the UK and Netherlands for the...
