Slater Victoroff, Founder - Indico Data

<p><strong><span style="color: #d35400;">Angel-scale biotech is hot:</span> <a href= "https://syndicate.angelinvestboston.com/en-us/the-surge-of-opportunities-in-angel-scale-biotech"> Learn More</a></strong></p> <p>Slater Victoroff founded Indico Data in his dorm room at Olin in 2012. Two years later Indico had gone through Techstars and was VC-backed. Hear the story of how making deep learning accessible to enterprise customers led to massive growth.</p> <p>Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson</p> <p>Highlights:</p> <ul> <li>Sal Daher Introduces Slater Victoroff, Founder and CTO of Indico Data</li> <li>Indico Was Founded in a Dorm Room in 2012, Two Years Later They Raised $3 million in an Oversubscribed Round</li> <li>Machine Learning Is Programming with Data Rather than Code</li> <li>Deep Learning Is Characterized by a Focus on Unstructured Data i.e., Text, Audio and Images</li> <li>Indico’s Original Aim Was to Make Deep Learning Accessible to Software Developers</li> <li>Slater Victoroff Founded Indico Because Most Innovation in Deep learning Was Driven by Industry</li> <li>Indico’s Experience at Techstars</li> <li>Semyon Dukach Saw Promise in Indico Others Did Not</li> <li>“...Techstars really helped us understand was that we were real.”</li> <li>Why Slater Victoroff Gave Up the CEO Role</li> <li>The Shift to Enterprise Clients and Massive Growth</li> <li>Stellar Customer Satisfaction Metrics Was the Secret</li> <li>Slater Victoroff Was an Unlikely Founder</li> <li>About Hiring Machine Learning Talent</li> <li>Slater’s Work at .406 Ventures</li> <li>What Sets Olin College Apart</li> <li>How Textbooks Empower the Self-Directed Learners</li> <li>Why Slater Victoroff Does Not Invest in the Life Sciences</li> <li>Parting Thoughts from Slater Victoroff</li> </ul> <p>Topics: founding story, robotics / AI, Techstars</p> <p><strong> </strong></p>