StatMuse is a creative technology company that uses artificial intelligence and dynamic animation to provide sports statistics.

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The company was founded in 2014 and is backed by Disney, Techstars Ventures, Greycroft, the NFL Players Association and NBA Commissioner Emeritus, David Stern.

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Technology and Data

1. When the user asks a question, the input is processed using Speech-To-Text.
2. The meaning is extracted using NLU (Natural Language Understanding), and the answer is looked up in a proprietary database.
3. After this, NLG (Natural Language Generation) is applied, and a voice is picked from over twenty-five voices based on the team or league.
4. Voice audio is generated using speech synth, and a visual creative is added.
5. The platform then plays a reply and the conversation continues.

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StatMuse provides a variety of data through its system, including season-by-season coverage dating back to 1946. Examples include game-by-game coverage for points, field-goals made, and free-throws made, game results and team standings, real-time scores and stats, and coverage for all other official statistics dating back to 1984-85.

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StatMuse is powered by the personalities of over 25 sports stars, including Peyton Manning, Todd Gurley and Scott Van Pelt.

Company Overview

Altos Ventures is a first-stage venture capital firm. The firm has been the first and lead investor in over 50 high-growth technology companies. More than a dozen of these companies were incubated by Altos and started from scratch.

Altos Ventures competes with Alloy Ventures, Accel, and Sequoia Capital​.​

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​Altos Ventures specializes in making direct and fund of fund investments. It makes venture capital investments in seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, and late venture companies.​

History

​Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 by Han Kim and Ho Nam and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Seoul, South Korea. Altos has been investing in cloud-based business software companies since 1999.​

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​Altos Ventures invests in fast-growing software, mobile, and Internet companies at the initial scale, typically over $1 million in revenue. The firm invests actively across North America and has a dedicated fund focused on South Korean companies. Altos aims to provide a company's first institutional capital and will invest up to $10 million over the life of the company. Its typical initial investment ranges between $1-5 million, for which they seek a meaningful ownership stake.​

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They make venture growth investments in enterprise and consumer software companies, with particular expertise in SaaS and consumer mobile. They prefer to be the first institutional investor in high-growth, founder-led companies.

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They are investing from 2017 and 2018 vintage funds, one focused in North America and the other in Asia. Their active portfolio companies generate more than seven billion dollars of annual revenue and employ more than ten thousand people across a dozen countries.​

Investments

Altos Ventures has had 16 exits. The firm's most notable exits include Piqora, Outspark, and OtherInbox. The firm has raised a total of $324.9M across 6 funds, one of them being Altos Ventures Korea Opportunity Fund II. This fund was announced on Mar 16, 2016, and raised a total of $110M.​

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The company invests in venture capital funds and commercial printing, diversified support services, educational curriculum development, environmental and facilities services, outsourced client support and customer services, video equipment, internet advertising, digital television, music services, online hobbies, games and toy retail, online music retail, search engine software, e-commerce software, network management software, content management software, online bill payment services, online education courses, online supply chain management, services outsourcing, networking services, video software, financial software, internet marketing automation software, payment and pos processing software, supply chain management software, systems software, educational and training software, telephone equipment, mobile telephones, mobile messaging, outsourced technology manufacturing services, digital, two-way mobile data services, security and alarm services, consumer digital lending, and commercial digital lending sectors.​

Investment approach

​Altos Ventures focuses on young technology companies and entrepreneurs. Altos invests in all sectors of the IT industry including software, services, digital media, and infrastructure. The firm can invest up to $10 million and has no minimum. Initial investments are typically $1 to 3 million. The firm prefers to own a meaningful minority stake, usually over 20%. Since 1996, Altos has formed six venture capital funds ranging in size from $50 million to $100 million.​

​ They often provide a company’s first institutional capital and will invest up to $10 million over the life of the company. The typical initial investment ranges between $1-5 million, for which they seek a meaningful ownership stake. They typically take an active board role in helping founders to scale their teams and companies. They are especially active in the early years of the partnership with founders.​

VINYA Intelligence is a company that is making great contributions in the hospital and health care sector. VINYA Intelligence is a health tech artificial intelligence firm and it has done a lot of useful experiments related to chronic disease deterioration.

Company Information

​It is a privately held company and is based in Cleveland Ohio. VINYA Intelligence was founded in 2013 and it currently has 2- 10 employees.​Michael deSa is the founder of the company.​

Flock Cover is an insurtech startup that is using the latest techniques in insurance space and data analytics. Flock Cover formed a partnership with Allianz which is the world’s largest aviation insurer. With this partnership, Flock Cover launched a suite of insurance and risk intelligence products.

Company Information

Flock Cover currently has around 11 – 50 employees and it is based in London UK. It is a privately held company that was founded in 2015. ​The company was founded by Antton Pena who is also the Product Lead of the company.​

History

​A few years back, Flock Cover raised around $2.25 million, the funding round was led by Anthemis alongside Seed and Speed, and Plug and Play.​

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​Synthego is a privately held, genome engineering innovation company headquartered in California. It focuses on providing broader access to CRIPR to accelerate basic scientific discovery, research cures for diseases, and develop novel synthetic biology applications through the company's automated, full stack genome engineering platform.

The company's product portfolio is divided into two areas: engineered cells and CRISPR kits. Under the engineered cells, Synthego offers knockout cell pools, knockout cell clone, and advanced cells with the client's custom edits. ​Under the CRISPR kits, it offers synthetic sgRNA kits, gene knockout kits, CRISPR screening libraries, advanced RNA, and synthetic cr:tracrRNA kits.​

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​In Jan 2017, Synthego had secured $41 million in funding from investors including, Jennifer A. Doudna, 8VC, and Founders Fund. Recently, in October 2018, it raise another $110 million in Series C funding round. The round was led by Founders Fund, with additional investment from existing investors 8VC and Menlo Ventures. Synthego's total funding is about $160 million.

​Boolberry is a privacy cryptocurrency officially released on September 8, 2016 using a Proof-of-Work (PoW) Wild Keccak consensus mechanism based on CryptoNote. The Boolberry blockchain reduced its blockchain size by 60-90%% by pruning ring signatures and improved its users anonymity by creating unlinkable outputs. The Boolberry project primarily relies on donation-based crowd funding and allows miners of Boolberry coins to vote how many Boolberry coins are allocated for project development (up to a maximum of 1% of mined coins). ​

Financial Network Analytics is a privately held company that was founded 2013. Financial Network Analytics is a deep technology analytics company. It allows institutions to monitor and map financial networks. Not only that, it also helps them to simulate financial and operational risks that may arise.

Company Information

The company was founded by Kimmo Soramaki and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of now, there are around 11 to 50 employees working for Financial Network Analytics.​

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​It won the Central Banking FinTech RegTech Global Awards 2018 in the category of 'Best Analytics Solution Provider'.​

Company Information

​Arabot, a privately held company based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, was founded in 2016. It specializes in Machine Learning, AI and Arabic search. The company was founded by Kais Hassan and Abdallah Faza, as of now, there are 2 – 10 employees working for the company.

The Product

The company developed the first intelligent Arabic bot which helps businesses improve customer satisfaction using conversational AI. Arabot technology is built using state of the art Arabic NLP engine which helps to analyze and understand Arabic conversation.

Farmatrust is an Artificial Intelligence company implementing blockchain technology to introduce complete transparency in the pharmaceutical industry. The company aims to create an efficient pharmaceutical supply chain, eliminate counterfeit, and reduce costs for consumers. FarmaTrust works with pharmaceutical companies, distributors, NGOs, and Law Enforcement agencies.

Product

Farmatrust is a platform built with blockchain technology with artificial intelligence and data analysis to create transparency in the pharmaceutical supply chain from manufacturers to the patients. The blockchain technology allows secure verification of data with immutable evidence which prevents tampering of information. Farmatrust gives every product a digital Compliance Tracking (CT) token with a serialized product key which is used to track it throughout the logistic process. Every transaction information and history is made available instantly with real-time data for verification by the blockchain.

The technology links manufacturers, regulators, suppliers and consumers to hold everyone responsible for their operation. Tracking of every product with blockchain prevents counterfeits and misuse of the pharmaceutical product during its lifetime. FaramTrust’s “Zoi” platform enables interoperability with manufacturers and regulatory bodies to make sure products are regulatory compliance and are safe for consumers. If any problem arise, regulators can track each product through the blockchain to determine which products are to be recalled. This control makes the pharmaceutical supply chain more reactive to events.

The transparency in the supply chain makes it easier to track how and when the product reaches the customers. Since every product is tracked, chances of illicit products entering the supply chain can be avoided. Current systems do not employ inter-operable technology among pharmaceuticals, distributors, and regulators, so they are unable to track the products throughout the supply chain. This problem correlates to possible drug shortages and illegal products entering the supply chain.

The pharmacies or a patient can verify the authenticity of the product by scanning the product identification information labeled on the product. The app is named “Consumer Confidence App” and is freely available for download. Being interlinked and real-time, if a regulator or manufacturer have labeled the product as unfit or has inconsistencies during its transaction history, the consumer is alerted to return the product.

History

The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.

​Pure is an open source, decentralized privacy cryptocurrency enabling anonymous and private transactions through its X11 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Darksend network. The Pure cryptocurrency was officially launched on september 18, 2017. The Pure cryptocurrency has an affiliated cryptocurrency exchange platform called Pureexchange that equally distributes 30% of its profits to Pure masternode holders. For Pure users to become Pure masternode holders they must mature their masternodes for 3 months in order to be eligible for Pureexchange profit rewards. ​

​Phore (PHR) is a privacy cryptocurrency, originally called KryptKoin (KTK), released on May 21, 2014 as a fork from PIVX (which was a fork of Dash). The Phore development team headquartered in London, England. Phore uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) 3.0 consensus mechanism coupled with the Zerocoin protocol. ​

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​The Phore blockchain platform enables private transactions on the Phore decentralized marketplace and Phore-based decentralized applications (dApps). The Phore platform also enables fast, secure, private, transparent transactions, and rewards for using the Phore cryptocurrency.

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Strategic partners

​The following companies are strategic partners with Phore:​

• UniFox
• Reddcoin
• StoneCash
• Platinum Circle
• Tour De Crypto
• Coti
• World Mobile

Technical specifications

​The following tables describes technical specifications of the Phore cryptocurrency:

Transporter is a Gurgaon-based technology company specializing in delivery and shipment technology.

Product

​The company is a software as a service entity and uses a combination of artificial intelligence in their product, including machine learning. ​It is intended to be used by electronic commerce companies that make hundred or thousands of deliveries each day. ​Users can run their logistics operations on the platform and the product will output plans for fast deliveries, with the intended result of deliveries being more time and cost efficient.They can use the dashboard on the interface to plan and track their deliveries.

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The product also has a software development kit with which users can track their deliveries. The kit can be integrated with the user's existing tracking application with some lines of code and allows users to consume less battery than with other tracking applications. The tracking feature of the product is focused on the last mile of deliveries as this is where errors may occur, such as incorrect zip codes. ​

Voris is a Bangalore-based artificial intelligence company that specializes in making technological products that allow for companies to be ecologically friendly.​

Product

The company has a flagship platform called "Yara". This product aids users in organizing events by digitalizing most of the event and thus using much less waste than normal events.​Since the product can digitally deliver information to attendees of the event, paper products such as paper documents, coupons, food passes, paper tickets, and brochures have been eliminated. ​Yara is secured with authentication features, authorization, and encryption systems.​

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Voris also has another product called "United Dialogue", which allows users to manage all of their social media accounts from one platform.Users can also schedule their posting times to upload their media. The Workplace feature enables to users to create plans for their social media marketing campaigns with the intent that users can automate their campaigns.​

​Yield10 Bioscience is a publicly traded, agriculture bioscience company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. It focuses on the development of technologies to produce step-change improvements in crop yield for food and feed crops. It aims to do this by improving fundamental elements of plant metabolism through enhanced photosynthetic efficiency and directed carbon utilization.​

​Originally known as Metabolix, the company was founded in 1992 and was focused on engineering microbes to make proprietary bioplastics and bio-based chemicals. The company's crop science research program was launched in 2002 with the intent to harness the renewable nature of plants to produce renewable bioplastics, chemicals, and bioenergy from agricultural crops. The company was renamed Yield10 Biosciences in 2015 to focus on its current are of expertise.​

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​Yield10's proprietary technologies such as its 'Smart Carbon Grid for Crops' and 'T3' platforms are used to book the carbon dioxide fixation efficiency through photosynthesis as well as its direction to and conversion into plant matter. The company is advancing this and several other yield traits it has developed in key commercial crops such as canola, soybean, rice, wheat, and corn.​

​Slang is a language education software company that has both mobile and desktop interfaces. Its stated goal is to aid English language learners in their quest to master the language so that their higher professional goals can be met.​The product is tailored to Spanish speakers at any proficiency level.​

Product

The company offers specialized courses that are tailored to the user's specific career. Some careers include banking, project management and accounting. The software uses natural language processing and data analysis to redirect the users in real time depending on their progress in their current course. Users can check their progress in reading, writing, speaking, and listening by viewing an icon that indicates their ability for specific words. The interface also offers translations of words and phrases into the user's native language to aid with the learning process. ​

​Slang can be used by individuals, businesses, universities, and English as a Second Language (ESL) schools. ​