A Duke University spinout based on research by Lawrence Carin, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received $10m of initial funding from Carrick Capital Partners.
Duke University secured $10m on Wednesday for Unicorn ML, a new machine learning spinout from investment firm Carrick Capital Partners.
The spinout will be based on research by Lawrence Carin, vice-provost for research and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University’s Edmund Pratt School of Engineering, who will also become chief scientist.
Carin’s research group has outlined an updated design for variational autoencoders, the component that attempts to replicate or create output based on data previously fed by…
