>>1749068 #2201
This missed the notables, but is a very clear explanation of the Rachel Brand/DOJ succession issue.
>Mindmeld
"Tuttle" - remember the movie Brazil?
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/05/11/cisco-startup-acquisitions-mindmeld.html
MindMeld was founded by CEO Tim Tuttle and Moninder Jheeta and had raised only about $15 million since it was founded late in 2014. Its investors include IDG Ventures USA, KPG Ventures, USAA, Greylock Partners, Google Ventures, Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, Samsung Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
https://martechtoday.com/mindmeld-conversational-ai-playbook-helps-developers-build-alexa-10-steps-194867
MindMeld describes itself as “a platform that makes it possible for companies to create intelligent conversational interfaces for any app or device.” The company has now released what it’s calling “The Conversational AI Playbook.” Tuttle describes it as a best practices manual for virtual assistants and a first step in defining development standards.
As one might infer, MindMeld seeks to be the provider of the AI and related back-end tools to enable hardware makers to create the conversational interfaces and consumer experiences Tuttle is alluding to.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245891
Tuttle—who has been working on the artificial intelligence behind voice-recognition technology since the ’90s, first as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at Bell Labs—
More than 1,200 companies are using MindMeld to power the voice-recognition feature on their user interfaces. While Tuttle wouldn’t provide specifics, he claims that a major cable TV company, global automotive manufacturer and several government intelligence agencies are customers, in addition to mobile-app development shops, which can add it to their clients’ apps.