Leading Primer’s $40M Series B
I first met Sean at a coffee shop in Potrero Hill in 2014. Sean had just left Quid where he’d been CTO and cofounder. I’d just joined Lux. We spoke about the future of ML and AI, whether “deep learning was real” (in 2014, still an open question!), and what would come post the renaissance in computer vision (we both settled on computers understanding language). Emails, calls, more coffees, and a Lux sponsored seed round later and Sean had built a vision for Primer: to leverage Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Generation to accelerate human understanding of the world.
Bridging the gap between exponentially growing data, and linearly scalable human resources
Almost exactly a year ago we launched Primer from stealth bringing to market 3 years of a world class artificial intelligence team’s brilliance and announcing Lux’s partnership across the first two rounds of funding...