Tecton.ai emerges from stealth with $20M Series A to build machine learning platform – TechCrunch

Three former Uber engineers, who helped build the company's Michelangelo machine learning platform, left the company last year to form Tecton.ai and build an operational machine learning platform for everyone else. Today the company announced a $20 million Series A from a couple of high-profile investors. Today's investment combined with the seed they used to spend the last year building the product comes to $25 million. But when you have the pedigree of these three founders -- CEO Mike Del Balso, CTO Kevin Stumpf and VP of Engineering Jeremy Hermann all helped build the Uber system -- investors will spend some money, especially when you are trying to solve a difficult problem around machine learning. The Michelangelo system was the machine learning platform at Uber that looked at things like driver safety, estimated arrival time and fraud detection, among other things.