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…