Vicarious (Company)
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| Privately held | |
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Founders | D. Scott Phoenix and Dileep George |
| Headquarters | San Francisco Bay Area, U.S. |
| Website | vicarious |
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. They are using the theorized computational principles of the brain to build software that can think and learn like a human.
The company was founded in 2010 by D. Scott Phoenix and Dr. Dileep George. Before co-founding Vicarious, Phoenix was Entrepreneur in Residence at Founders Fund and CEO of Frogmetrics, a touchscreen analytics company he co-founded through the Y Combinator incubator program. Previously, Dr. George was Chief Technology Officer at Numenta, a company he co-founded with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky (PALM, HAND) while completing his PhD at Stanford University.
The company launched in February 2011 with funding from Founders Fund, Dustin Moskovitz, Adam D’Angelo (former Facebook CTO and co-founder of Quora), Felicis Ventures, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. In August 2012, in its Series A round of funding, it raised an additional US $ 15 million. The round was led by Good Ventures; Founders Fund, Open Field Capital and Zarco Investment Group also participated.
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