Slater Victoroff, Founder - Indico Data

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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