Intelligent Automation Radio – Episode #22: A Prominent VC’s Advice for AI & Automation Entrepreneurs
Wayne Gretzky, the greatest player in the history of professional hockey, was once asked how he had such an uncanny ability during games to be at the right place at the right time. He responded, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” That quote more than […]
BGV Closes $70 Million Opportunity Fund And Announces Successful Exit of Portfolio Company Profitect
To view the original article, please click here. BGV, an early-stage venture capital firm with deep Silicon Valley roots and an exclusive focus on enterprise 4.0 startups in global markets, today announced the close of its Opportunity Fund, a $70 million investment vehicle. The Opportunity Fund is designed to make expansion stage investments in successful portfolio […]
Interview With Drishti CEO Akella Reveals You Will Not Lose Your Job to Robots
People Still Do Most of the Work in Factories People assume that robots do most of the work in manufacturing and factories and they assume that there will be a wave of AI, automation and robotics where they will lose their job. However, Drishti CEO Prasad Akella reveals a different situation. The real numbers are […]
Drishti recognized by World Economic Forum as a 2019 Technology Pioneer for leading in AI-driven action recognition technology for manufacturing
The World Economic Forum today announced its selection of the 56 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2019, and Drishti Technologies, Inc. (Drishti) was named among them for its innovative “action recognition” technology. Drishti uses deep learning and computer vision to create data from human activities for the benefit of factory line operators and the entire […]
Mitigating ICS Threats
Blast furnaces use carbon monoxide to remove oxygen from iron ore. It’s a simple chemical process, but the operation of a live blast furnace is anything but simple. Several years ago, unnamed hackers broke into a German blast furnace and caused significant damage to the infrastructure. Luckily, no one was killed. The attack was initiated through mundane […]
How (and What) to Invest in the Edge
Raiyaan Serang (BGV Associate 2019), together with Yash Hemaraj, Anik Bose, Eric Buatois, and Amir Nayyerhabibi (BGV Partners), shares perspectives around how and what to invest within the edge computing space in this second of a two-part series on the topic. How (and What) to Invest in the Edge Because of the constantly evolving state […]
Drishti Named a 2019 “Cool Vendor” in Manufacturing Operations by Gartner
Drishti Technologies, Inc. (Drishti), a transformative technology company that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to produce continuous, system-wide data on manual factory tasks, was named a “Cool Vendor” in the May 2019 Cool Vendors in Manufacturing Operations report by Gartner, Inc. Drishti’s impact on lean assembly lines is two-fold: first, the data Drishti gathers […]
Why Edge Computing?
Raiyaan Serang (BGV Associate 2019), together with Yash Hemaraj, Anik Bose, Eric Buatois, and Amir Nayyerhabibi (BGV Partners), shares insights around why edge computing developed in this first of a two-part series on the space. Why Edge Computing? In many ways, traditional cloud computing was built to serve the large enterprise by providing shared, centrally […]