Excited to bring you the fifth edition of the Deep Thoughts Newsletter! I’m Karan, reporting from the US of A. I am the boots on the ground supporting our 70+ portfolio in their US expansion phase. Drop a line to say hello!
We’re thrilled toannounceour recent investment inAudioTelligence. They’ve developed a novel audio source separation technology that can help speech applications deal with noisy environments. Creating video chats without interference from ambient chatter is a seriously hard problem to tackle, but AudioTelligence’stechnology nails it. Check out Zoe’spostand thisTechCrunchfeature to learn more.
In the past few weeks, we have been:
Continuing to listen to Darknet Diaries, a fantastic podcast with stories from the dark side of the internet, including an episode detailing the terrifying extent of the NotPetya worm in the Ukraine and beyond.
Watching the press pick up on OV portfolio company WaveOptics as it released the lightest, thinnest waveguide ever for Augmented Reality displays.
Looking through this fun survey data of quantum computing researchers' responses to questions about whether Google reached quantum supremacy last year. IBM thinks they didn’t :)
Geeking out on why DevOps for machine learning systems is so hard and different.Read here.
Surprised, as always, while analysing the Gartner Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence 2019.
Worried that privacy is getting heavily breached in the name of detecting corona virus?
Deep Tech Night (password: deeptech) on the evening of March 4th. This informal get together is for startups, supporters and investors who are "up to their necks" in Deep Tech.
If you find yourself at any of the above, do shout!
And feel free to drop me a line karan@octopusventures.com to chat about anything Deep Tech if you’re ever in New York, and remember to sign up to receive our next edition.
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