Fero Labs, co-founded by Berk Birand, Alp Kucukelbir, and Pamir Ozbay (with advising from professors David Blei and Chris Wiggins), aims to bring actionable machine learning to the industrial sector. Their software helps factories around the world to optimize production, reduce waste, and improve quality.
Voyant Photonics is shrinking LIDAR to a chip that fits on your fingertip, reducing cost by more than 10 times and bringing semiconductor scaling to 3D sensing. Low-cost LIDAR on a chip will make everything smarter and safer: cars, drones, robots, factories, your home, and even mobile phones.
At NimbleApp, we’re building cutting-edge tools to redefine how developers craft awesome apps. Our product is based on patent-pending technology created at Columbia University. Located in New York City, our team includes academics and hackers of all stripes, from CS PhDs to developers with 2,000+ stars on GitHub. We’re backed by an incredible cast of investors and are well funded for the next stage of our growth.
Vidrovr addresses three key market needs: 1. Domain and customer specific automatic metadata generation for videos, 2. Video Content Management solutions that enable automatic placement and recommendation of video clips for digital products, and 3. Automatically linking and sourcing visual social media content that is relevant to a particular video or online article before it is published. Vidrovr’s team includes two PhD Students in the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab at Columbia University: Joseph Ellis ’17CC and Daniel Morozoff ’16CC.
The Vidrovr duo has developed an award-winning and patented system for processing news videos and social media, called News Rover, and the technologies developed for this system are directly leveraged in Vidrovr products. Vidrovr is currently working with enterprise customers to design products and systems that provide value to news rooms, archivists, and digital product creators.
If you are overwhelmed with your video content or simply looking to learn more, please feel free to reach out to us at contact@vidrovr.com, and visit our website at vidrovr.com.
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