ffVC and NYU are Mixing Researchers with Investors in the Name of Machine Intelligence
- John Mannes for Tech Crunch April 5th, 2017
- Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/ffvc-and-nyu-are-mixing-researchers-with-investors-in-the-name-of-machine-intelligence/
The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator, “AI Nexus Lab,” Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence. In a stroke of luck, the startup that would become Uber’s AI lab happened to have been raised by NYU Tandon’s Data Future Labs. Uber’s interest in Geometric helped solidify New York’s place in the minds of machine intelligence wonks and brought investor attention to other startups affiliated with the school.
