Scott Gray: AI Is For Everyone

On May 6, 2017, Shanghai RDR Technology Innovation Service Ltd. and JadeValue jointly organized the event “AI is For Everyone” in JadeValue. Scott Gray, a serial entrepreneur and Startup Coach at Founders Space from Silicon Valley, spoke about how AI is going to affect the world and how people without mathematics background could play with AI – I.E “AI is For Everyone”, for a group of Chinese entrepreneurs and investors. Scott used simple examples of how AI works, introduced some open-source platforms, such as TensorFlow, and shared his view on the ‘AI competition’ between China and the US. After Scott’s speech, four startups, namely Awkint, Chenqing Technology, Boson and PI Remote, pitched their startups to the investor crowd. The event attracted over 40 entrepreneurs and investors.   

Demo Projects

Awkint (Pre-A)

Provides solutions for pathologic diagnosis powered by AI technology.

Some Highlights:

  • A team of world-class lab technicians specialized in Pathologic diagnosis powered by AI, and serial entrepreneurs’ specialized in medical IOT;
  • Developed multiple Algorithm prototypes which have been applied to hospital clinic systems and diagnostic studies in UK, which are more advanced than China’s counterparts;
  • Core competitive ability: Data, algorithms and strong customer loop of comprehensive services.

Chenqing Technology (A round)

Integrates public meteorological data to become more accurate in terms of time, location and quantity. Provides tailored services to domestic companies based on integrated meteorological data.

Some Highlights:

  • Supportive government policy for the commercial weather service market;
  • Experienced team in micro-meteorological data application, with a deep understanding of water, electricity supply, and agricultural insurance business;
  • Revenue of 5 million RMB in 2015, and 10 million RMB in 2016.

 

Boson (Round A+)

A research and data analytics consulting firm, specializing in natural language processing and AI technology, with a patented NLP engine and Corpus database. Boson’s Chinese language processing platform provides an API service for more than 2000 developers. The core product “Fong Bao” is an enterprise risk control and intelligence analysis system leveraging AI and big data, providing efficient comprehensive intelligence analysis and decision making support.  

 

PI Remote (A round)

PI Remote’s vision is “Connecting everything with ease”, i.e. control all your applications in your home through your phone with ease. Based on world-class image recognition and depth learning techniques, PI Remote created the first commercial product for photo identification equipment, brining superior convenience to the end-users. It also developed a Digital Program Menu and Voice and Movement remote control to create a more customer centric ‘smart home’ experience.

The event was hosted by Wenhui Zhang, the operation director of RDR Technology Innovation Service Ltd. Yishan Zhang, JadeValue’s marketing manager introduced what JadeValue can offer startups in terms of investment and incubation services.