{"id":135736,"date":"2014-05-22T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/x-ai-secures-2m-in-seed-funding.php"},"modified":"2014-05-22T17:40:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:40:54","slug":"x-ai-secures-2m-in-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/artificial-intelligence\/x-ai-secures-2m-in-seed-funding.php","title":{"rendered":"x.ai Secures $2M in Seed Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    New York, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2014  <\/p>\n<p>    x.ai builds and maintains an artificial    intelligence powered personal assistant that schedules meetings    for its business customers.  <\/p>\n<p>    x.ai, inc., an artificial intelligence company, today announced    that it has secured $2.1M in seed funding led by IA Ventures,    Softbank and Lerer Ventures. The investment will expand data    and science efforts towards fully emulating a human scheduling    negotiation - so 87 million US knowledge workers can get their    own assistant.  <\/p>\n<p>    I scheduled 1,019 meetings for myself in 2012 and loved every    human interaction as much as I hated every email ping pong    necessary to get it on the calendar, said Dennis R. Mortensen,    CEO and Founder of x.ai.  <\/p>\n<p>    x.ai is a personal assistant that use email to    schedule meetings. Customers talk to Amy as they would to any    other person - and they can have her do all the tedious email    ping pong that comes along with scheduling a meeting. It    requires no sign-in, no password, no download; all they do is    CC: <a href=\"mailto:amy@x.ai\">amy@x.ai<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>    Ive been cc-ing <a href=\"mailto:amy@x.ai\">amy@x.ai<\/a> for months and I find it difficult    to see how I would go back to a time without her help. The    nature of my business is meeting with people -- entrepreneurs,    corporate execs, fellow investors -- and efficiently taking    away the tedious task of scheduling my meetings is a huge boon    to my productivity, said Jonathan Lehr, Director at    Work-Bench.  <\/p>\n<p>    x.ai is currently looking for some of the best and brightest to    fill positions in the following areas; Data Scientists, Data    Engineers, Backend Engineers and Ai Trainers. So if you want to    be the arbiter of time, head over to x.ai\/jobs.  <\/p>\n<p>    x.ai is taking on a well-accepted pain, using artificial    intelligence and machine learning to a degree rarely seen,    said Brad Gillespie, Partner at IA Ventures. Dennis and the    x.ai team is executing on a very ambitious plan, which, if    successful, could change the paradigm for how we schedule    meetings in the future, perhaps even how we choose to spend our    time at work.  <\/p>\n<p>    About x.ai, inc.    x.ai was founded in 2014 by former Visual Revenue (Predictive    Analytics software acquired by Outbrain) CEO Dennis R.    Mortensen and his co-founders Alex Poon and Matt Casey. The    wider founding team are industry veterans from analytics, big    data and the predictive modeling world.  <\/p>\n<p>    For more details on x.ai, inc. visit the corporate website at    x.ai, email hello(at)x(dot)ai or simply see 'how Amy schedules your    meetings'.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2014\/05\/prweb11863409.htm\/RK=0\/RS=tpifKeYuU_HLJHyZ62D_rVLZJJ4-\" title=\"x.ai Secures $2M in Seed Funding\">x.ai Secures $2M in Seed Funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> New York, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2014 x.ai builds and maintains an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for its business customers. x.ai, inc., an artificial intelligence company, today announced that it has secured $2.1M in seed funding led by IA Ventures, Softbank and Lerer Ventures. The investment will expand data and science efforts towards fully emulating a human scheduling negotiation - so 87 million US knowledge workers can get their own assistant.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/artificial-intelligence\/x-ai-secures-2m-in-seed-funding.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}