Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I have two questions. One is about who you see in deals. When you are trying to do these large deals with large customers, who else is showing up in those deals? What other alternatives are these customers considering? Francisco Webber: You mean in competitive terms? Sramana Mitra: Yes.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So, it’s a combination of angel financing and a lot of bootstrapping using services. Now, you are at a point where you also have production-grade product systems.  Francisco Webber: The big pivot was in 2019 when we decided that our current frameworks were stable and mature enough to boil them down into specific

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Everything that I have listened to so far is pointing to the fact that this company needs to be scaled as a Platform-as-a-Service company more than a pure solution company.  Francisco Webber: Interestingly, investors prefer you to be focused, especially in the early round.  Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. Francisco Webber: It’s a bit of

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a few different questions that come to mind as I am listening to you. First, you said that a large New York bank came to you, what does that mean? How did they know about you? How did that happen? A large New York bank doesn’t just come to

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 3)

Francisco Webber: In the end, it translates to a situation where we could ask a person to manually annotate something like 50 documents, and the system would pick up the characteristics like the typical content, position, and context where a paragraph containing this would appear. We could demonstrate that with 50-100 examples, the system could

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me interrupt you for a second and try to understand the technology better. I completely understand the statistical approach versus more of the semantic modeling approach. How do you start? Let’s say you get a dataset. How does this begin? Francisco Webber: One big problem that we have in statistical representation is

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Francisco Webber, CEO of Cortical.io (Part 1)

This is a terrific conversation on cutting-edge Natural language processing (NLP) with an entrepreneur in Vienna. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cortical.io. Francisco Webber: I am the CEO and one of the founders of Cortical.io. It is a startup originating from Vienna, Austria. We are

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531st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Francisco De Sousa Webber, Cortical.io

Francisco De Sousa Webber, Founder CEO at Cortical.io based in Vienna, Austria, joins us for a terrific conversation on cutting edge NLP.