Machine learning technology startup Wise.io, established by an academic team that created machine-learning frameworks to study rare phenomena in the universe, has raised $2.5m series A funding to leverage the power of its technology for use by enterprises.
Wise.io, a US-based machine learning technology startup founded by a cross-disciplinary academic team that once studied exploding white dwarfs, has raised $2.5m series A funding led by Voyager Capital. Predictive analytics technology industry veteran Jeff Erhardt has been named as CEO.
Wise.io describes its team as comprising “published authors, serial entrepreneurs, Fulbright and Hertz Scholars, and prolific inventors. We hold advanced degrees from Harvard, Caltech, Wharton, Cambridge, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.”
“Machine Learning is unquestionably the future of advanced analytics for the enterprise. When I first met Wise.io, I was struck by the caliber of the team and the unequaled performance of their core technology,” said Daniel Ahn, managing director at Voyager Capital who joined the Wise.io board as part of the transaction.
Wise.io was founded in 2012, Its team of experts in the fields of astrophysics, statistics, computer science, and machine learning, worked together for over a decade, creating “automated machine-learning frameworks that were used to discover and understand some of the rarest phenomena in the universe, from peculiar stars to exploding white dwarfs.”
Two of Wise.io’s co-founders, Henrik Brink and Joseph Richards, recently wrote a book entitled Real-World Machine Learning.
