10 Cool Machine Learning Startups To Watch - InformationWeek

Tamr, a machine learning-driven company for procurement analytics and media analytics, has won financial backing from big guys such as HP Ventures and Google Ventures. The company applies machine learning technologies to traditional areas of the enterprise such as procurement. The company's founders, Michael Stonebraker and Andy Palmer, previously started database company Vertica, which HP acquired in 2011. Tamr customers include Cisco, GE, Toyota, and Thomson Reuters.