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Mustafa Suleyman is a 33-year-old entrepreneur and activist. He sold his artificial intelligence company DeepMind to Google for £400 million in 2014. Suleyman dropped out of university and worked as an activist before getting involved in artificial intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman is one of the three cofounders of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence (AI) lab in London […]
Flickr/jurvetson Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson resigned from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a firm he cofounded, amid an internal investigation into sexual harassment allegations. Jurvetson has denied the allegations. His departure was by mutual agreement with the firm, a DFJ spokeswoman said. Jurvetson is also taking a leave of absence from the boards of Tesla and SpaceX. Steve Jurvetson […]
LinkedIn A new hedge fund has raised over $ 100 million and plans to use troves of data from other managers to select its investments. Epsilon Asset Management plans to scrape decades of regulatory documents to analyze positions of other active managers and turn these into investment strategies for institutional clients, cofounder Faryan Amir-Ghassemi told […]
Courtesy eGenesis Egenesis, a startup that’s using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to make pig organs viable for transplants into people, just raised $ 38 million. The company, which launched back in 2015 and is co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church and 30-year old Luhan Yang, wants to knock out certain genes in pigs that could cause diseases or organ […]
