Characterizing Venture Funds using Machine Learning

At Tyto.ai we are working on interesting problems which occasionally brings us into contact with VCs and other investors. Most of my machine learning background is in natural language processing (NLP). I love NLP, and I could talk all day about it, but sometimes it is difficult to explain how generalizable the techniques in modern NLP are to areas outside text. It's pretty easy to show how a deep learning model can tell the difference between a dog and a cat, and everyone understands how that is relevant to different image types. But techniques developed for NLP are perhaps even more powerful.