The Next Web

“Vicarious, a startup working on replicating the human brain’s recognition capabilities, has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Good Ventures, an investment firm started by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Founders Fund and Open Field Capital also joined in on the round, as did angel investors Steve Brown and Zarco Investment Group. Founders Fund had previously led the startup’s first institutional round, which Moskovitz had also participated in. Moskovitz is also joining the company’s board of directors. Vicarious launched in 2011 and is working on an image and video recognition system that mimics the brain in picking out objects such as faces. To achieve this, the company has developed a “Recursive Cortical Network” for its machine learning software that could apply to robotics, medical imaging and search.”

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