Pitch deck for AI startup NWO.ai, with CTO Imogen Low - Business Insider

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Meet the 22-year-old cofounder and CTO whose AI startup just emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in seed funding

The startup analyzes data to predict trends and purchasing behavior. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesWhen Imogen Low started her job with SAP at age 17, other employees often assumed she was a sales intern.Low won engineering prizes at her Australian high school, where she "was often one of the only females in the room.

NWO.ai taps into a "firehose" of data from search engines, social media, and digital news sites, and analyzes it using proprietary, predictive artificial intelligence algorithms to spot emerging trends and produce actionable reports for customers. The young NYC-based startup already has a Fortune 500 company as a customer, with a handful of others in the pipeline.

To build the platform, NWO used more than 2 petabytes of data – about as much data as you would consume in 5 years of nonstop binge-watching movies – from search, social media, and news dating back to 2006. The startup's algorithms tracked when and how 20 million "microtrends" peaked in order to project when related new trends will arise. Companies can benefit from the patterns of the past applied to upcoming events.

Purchasing behavior or, as in one experiment, voting behavior. Based on data NWO analyzed on US voter sentiment ahead of the election, the startup "predicted with 80% certainty that Biden would win," Low told Insider.

 

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Using Twitter and google trends anyone can quickly capture forecasts. Unstructured data are just tweets. Financial times definitely a great source for global macro ... ai albeit useful will never replace boots on the ground. Don’t spend money on this kind of rubbish get a copy of the economist monthly instead.

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Pre-Covd-19 chit chat!

barnes_law Hmmm.

barnes_law Was she in charge of beverages? Looks like she nailed it.

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