INFORMATION WEEK: No-code, low-code (horizontal) machine learning platforms are useful at scaling data science in an enterprise. Still, as many organizations are now finding out, there are so many ways that data science can go wrong in solving new problems. Zillow experienced billions of dollars in losses buying houses using a flawed data-driven home valuation model. Data-driven human resources technology, especially when based off facial recognition software, has been shown to bias hiring decisions against protected classes.

Nick Adams, a co-founder at Differential Ventures, shares his perspective on what makes for the most compelling startup pitches.

Differential Venture's Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Nick Adams, joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. He shares his story as an athlete where preparation is key to your success. He adds that having risk tolerance gave him more opportunities and growth.

THE OPTIONALITY GAME PODCAST: Our guest today is Nick Adams, a co-founder and managing partner at Differential Ventures. We chat about the definition of AI, Nick's skepticism of some AI concepts, AI's effect on employment, which jobs cannot be automated, and existential risk from AI.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Differential Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital fund founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs for data-focused entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce continued momentum after launching Fund II with a target of $60 million to invest in seed-stage data science …

Knockri Co-founder and CEO Jahanzaib Ansari talks to Emily Chang about how his AI software helps companies reduce their own bias when making hiring decisions and what prompted him to come up with this idea.

Jahanzaib Ansari is the Co-founder and CEO of Knockri. Jahanzaib served as a key advisory member to the World Economic Forum's Global Council on Equality & Inclusion. He contributed his expertise on ethically built AI for selection and assessment to several reports: including "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0 Toolkit" and "Global Social Mobility Index 2020: why

To enrich its silicon lifecycle management solution with real-time, in-field optimization technologies, Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced that it has acquired Concertio Inc., the leading provider of AI-powered performance optimization software. The acquisition is another step in the continued enhancement of the Synopsys SiliconMAX™ Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) Platform.

AUTHORITY MAGAZINE: The biggest mistakes I have made as an investor and as an operator always came down to overvaluing my own abilities to fix a flaw with a company. The times where I took a job or made an investment thinking that I could change significant flaws with the business always ended in failure. I am fortunate to have learned this lesson pretty early on in my tech career and tend to be hyper-aware of when I am looking at a company through the lens of it being ‘my company’ and adjust my thinking.

VATOR NEWS: Managing Partner, Nick Adams, talks about seed investing in the data and machine learning market with Thanasis Delistathis and Jenny Schretter from pro rata fund, PROOF VC.

Sahara is a web platform that allows developers to virtually access physical boards, sensors, and test equipment in the cloud so that they can start their hardware R&D immediately without needing to physically acquire any hardware.

TIMES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: David Magerman first emerged on the scene, briefly, in 2017. He’d been working at a giant hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, for more than 20 years, helping it develop trading algorithms that drove it to phenomenal success. Renaissance was said to have “solved the market.”

ANYTHING THAT MOVES PODCAST: David Magerman, Managing Partner and CTO at Differential Ventures, is has witnessed firsthand the different applications of AI and machine learning since he began his career working on early data-driven approaches to natural language processing at IBM. Through this lens, Meir and David breakdown the state of automated mobility technology, the players involved, and the troves of data needed to make L5 a reality.

Ocrolus, a New York startup that taps AI and machine learning to parse financial documents, today announced it has raised $24 million in a series B round led by venture growth equity firm Oak HC/FT.

Private AI, a Toronto based developer of privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools, has secured $3.15 million in seed funding led by Microsoft’s venture fund M12 and Forum Ventures with participation of pre-seed investor Differential Ventures, new investors Shasta Ventures, Hyperplane Venture Capital, and Parliament Angels, a group of early Twilio employees.

FINDING PROOF PODCAST: Managing Partner, Nick Adams, talks about seed investing in the data and machine learning market with Thanasis Delistathis and Jenny Schretter from pro rata fund, PROOF VC.

Ryan Austin is a serial entrepreneur who has spent over 10 years driving improvements in learning and development. In his current role as Founder & CEO at Synapse, Ryan is focused on developing innovative products to help learning teams increase productivity and automate operational processes to create impactful training at scale.

Cyolo, a startup developing a platform that enables users to securely access their organization’s apps, servers, desktops, and files, today announced that it raised $21 million in series A funding led by Glilot Capital Partners, with a strategic investment from National Grid Partners and Merlin Cyber and support from existing backers Flint Capital, Global Founders Capital, and Differential Ventures. Cyolo says the funds will be used to accelerate growth and R&D efforts, as well as help new customers navigate the transition to zero trust networking.

Nick Romano is CEO of Deeplite, a Canadian AI software company dedicated to enabling AI for everyday life. Nick is a serial entrepreneur delivering successful outcomes through leadership, integrity, innovation, and empowerment for over 20 years. Prior to Deeplite, Nick was co-founder and CEO of several …

{EVCA} David has one of those life stories straight out of the movies. He grew up in the 1970's "on the wrong side of the tracks," out in the boondocks of South Miami, where tomato fields covered the earth and the quality of the public school systems verged the line of contemptibility. With a love and talent for computers, he used education as the means to escape what could have been a foregone destiny in the Floridan backwaters.