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One of our portfolio companies, Organic Motion is hiring. They are a really exciting company right in the middle of our Human Computer Interaction Theme. In the company’s own words:
“Organic Motion is a global leader in the development of breakthrough markerless motion capture and analysis technologies. Our software products utilize state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and high performance graphics hardware to deliver an industry first set of production, entertainment, and research tools for use in a ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
As we previously reported, we’ve recently invested in a computer vision company called Organic Motion. This is another one of our Human Computer Interaction investments. To give you an idea of one of the markets they are targeting, check out the these marketing materials designed for the defense industry. In it, you can see some specific use cases that the company can deliver today. (Be patient, it’s a 5mb file, so it takes a bit ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
We are pleased to announce our investment in Organic Motion, Inc. The company is based in New York City and is a leading innovator of computer vision and advanced motion capture systems. Organic Motion’s core computer vision technology dramatically increases a computer’s ability to see and understand the motion of humans and other living organisms. The company offers groundbreaking turnkey and customized motion capture systems that utilize its patent-pending breakthrough computer vision technology.
This investment is ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
Last week we hosted what we called the “Foundry Group Digital Life Summit” here in Boulder, Colorado. While we are no strangers to helping host conferences such as Defrag and Glue, this was a much more intimate event that we arranged ourselves.
The genesis of the idea was to get our three portfolio companies in our Digital Life Theme together – namely Cloud Engines, Memeo, and Pie Digital – for a day or two of knowledge ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
During a run several weeks ago, I was pondering the arc of several of our investment themes. When we made our investment in Gist, we talked about it being at the intersection of our Email and Implicit Web themes. It turns out to also include our RSS theme (which previously included investments in FeedBurner, NewsGator, and Technorati.)
I’d just finished reading A Semantic Web Primer and was thinking about the various semantic web protocols that were the ...
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Posted by: Brad Feld
