Tomasz Tunguz, Venture Capitalist at Redpoint Ventures and author of Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future, discusses the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence with Ludo Ulrich, Head of Startups Relations at Salesforce.

1. TOMASZ TUNGUZ
REDPOINT VENTURES
TOMTUNGUZ.COM
#saastrannual
AI: The New Platform for
SaaS

2. 434 $4B 136
Funded AUM IPO + M&A
REDPOINT: SEED,
EARLY, GROWTH

3. BUSINESSES

4. MACHINE LEARNINGthe next major platform for startups

5. MACHINE LEARNING IS

6. What is Machine Learning, really?

7. MACHINE
LEARNING
FINDS
PATTERNS
IN DATA

8. OPTIMIZEif you take 101, you’ll arrive at the Pearl 15 minutes
faster than 280

9. IDENTIFY OBJECTSthis photograph you took is an image of a cat

10. FIND ANOMALIESyour credit card bought a $10,000 piano yesterday

11. SEGMENTyou love to play FarmVille; you’re a whale for Zynga

12. THE
RECENT
BUZZ
ABOUT
ML?

13. COMPUTE DATA
ALGORITHM
S

14. DEEP LEARNING /
NEURAL NETWORKS

15. FEATURE
SELECTION
MODEL
TUNING

16. DEEP LEARNING
“AUTOMATES” BOTH
PROCESSES

17. Wavenet synthesizes speech from text that is
nearly indistinguishable from human speech.
September 8, 2016

18. Microsoft researchers reach human parity in
conversational speech recognition
October 18, 2016

19. Google achieves zero-shot machine translation.
November 22, 2016

20. COMMERCIA
LIZATION

21. WORKFLOW

22. INSURANCE

23. LOGISTICS

24. CONSTRUCTION

25. MEDICINE

26. AGRICULTURE

27. ML OPENS THE DOOR TO DISRUP

28. HUGE POTENTIAL FOR

29. INVESTMENT
STRATEGY
1. Proprietary access to data
2. End to end applications,
not platforms
3. Strong GTM enabled by
ML
4. Experts in the field
5. Potential algorithmic
advances

30. OUR MACHINE LEARNING POR

31. TOMASZ TUNGUZRedpoint Ventures
tomtunguz.com