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Ascent B2B IT Forum – Machine Learning: How Artificial Intelligence is Invading the Enterprise

The Investing Edge

There’s no denying that machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are invading the enterprise at warp speed. AI is defined as the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. So from a B2B standpoint, why should we care about machine learning? Their near unanimous response: they are one and the same.

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Tech vets lead Panda AI, a secretive new spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

GeekWire

Veteran tech execs are heading up a stealthy new startup formed inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle. His co-founder and CTO is Yue Ning , a former software engineer at Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Qualtrics, where he led teams focused on text analytics.

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Voyager Capital targeting $100M for its sixth fund to back more B2B startups in the Pacific Northwest

GeekWire

It focuses on investing in startups based in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alberta that build software-as-a-service, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and machine learning-related products and services. Voyager has offices in Seattle and Portland. PitchBook reported that $33.3

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Shift AI Podcast: AI investing in Seattle with Ascend’s Kirby Winfield

GeekWire

It’s a lot easier to sell shortcake at a summer festival than it is to sell software as a service to a midsize enterprise. We invest in software and B2B and a vast majority touches in some way on artificial intelligence, machine learning, data, or vertical software. It will be unrecognizable.

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Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments

CIO Business Intelligence

The B2B marketing landscape is experiencing a seismic shift fueled by the ascent of ChatGPT and other generative AI (GAI) apps. Last year, Sitecore polled B2B marketers about their perceptions of the metaverse , which at the time was thought to be the next frontier in experiential marketing. Artificial Intelligence

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Tech Moves: Graham & Walker exec joins Seattle Storm; Union Bay founder lands new role

GeekWire

Benn Bollay is now CTO at B2B software startup ReachSuite. The longtime software engineer most recently was CTO at Fusebit, a Seattle-based startup he founded that helps developers with software integration capabilities. He was also a CEO-in-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. —

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Seattle VC firm Ascend raises $25M for second fund, plans to double down on AI

GeekWire

With the new fund, Ascend is placing a bigger bet on artificial intelligence, joining other venture capital firms pouring cash into the growing sector boosted by recent generative AI advancements. To date, he’s backed more than 70 startups across the Pacific Northwest. “AI is having a platform-shift moment.