Apr 13, 2022
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Slater Victoroff founded Indico Data in his dorm room at Olin in 2012. Two years later Indico had gone through Techstars and was VC-backed. Hear the story of how making deep learning accessible to enterprise customers led to massive growth.
Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson
Highlights:
- Sal Daher Introduces Slater Victoroff, Founder and CTO of Indico Data
- Indico Was Founded in a Dorm Room in 2012, Two Years Later They Raised $3 million in an Oversubscribed Round
- Machine Learning Is Programming with Data Rather than Code
- Deep Learning Is Characterized by a Focus on Unstructured Data i.e., Text, Audio and Images
- Indico’s Original Aim Was to Make Deep Learning Accessible to Software Developers
- Slater Victoroff Founded Indico Because Most Innovation in Deep learning Was Driven by Industry
- Indico’s Experience at Techstars
- Semyon Dukach Saw Promise in Indico Others Did Not
- “...Techstars really helped us understand was that we were real.”
- Why Slater Victoroff Gave Up the CEO Role
- The Shift to Enterprise Clients and Massive Growth
- Stellar Customer Satisfaction Metrics Was the Secret
- Slater Victoroff Was an Unlikely Founder
- About Hiring Machine Learning Talent
- Slater’s Work at .406 Ventures
- What Sets Olin College Apart
- How Textbooks Empower the Self-Directed Learners
- Why Slater Victoroff Does Not Invest in the Life Sciences
- Parting Thoughts from Slater Victoroff
Topics: founding story, robotics / AI, Techstars