Are you the founder of an AI startup? Tired of pitching VCs trying to convince them of your market size and defensibility? Would you rather be building a business than a pitch deck? The AI Startup Battle is the world's 1st startup competition where participants are judged by an AI on stage -- not a human jury! Far too often are startup pitch competitions decided before they even get started.

The Artificial Intelligence Startup Battle where the jury is an algorithm keeps on traveling around the world! We are glad to announce our next stop: São Paulo, Brazil, on December 9, 2016. This will be the third edition of a series of very exciting battles, where five AI startups compete with each other and are judged by a Machine Learning algorithm, with no human involvement. The world's premiere Artificial Intelligence Startup Battle took place in Valencia, Spain, last March 2016, when Telefónica Open Future_ and BigML presented PreSeries to the world. The reaction of the audience was extremely positive!

Telefónica Open Future_, Telefónica's startup accelerator that helps the best entrepreneurs grow and build successful businesses, and PAPIs.io Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a track-record of improving the way we make decisions. So why not use it to decide which startups to invest in, and take advantage of all the startup data that is available? The AI Startup Battle, powered by PreSeries (a joint venture between BigML and Telefónica Open Future_), is a unique experience you don't want to miss, where you'll witness real-world and high-stakes AI. As an early stage startup, you will enjoy a great opportunity to secure seed investment, and get press coverage in one of the technology capitals of the world.

We first ran into the predictive marketing startup Datatrics from the Netherlands at the PAPI's Connect event in Valencia earlier this year, where they competed in the first ever AI Startup Battle. The Dutch startup offers marketing teams an easy and actionable way to leverage Machine Learning with its innovative data management platform, which we believe sets a great example for other startups in showing how BigML can add to their competitive edge and supercharge their growth. So we interviewed Bas Nieland, CEO and co-founder of Datatrics to find out more. Can you tell us what was the motivation behind starting Datatrics? Bas Nieland: Nowadays digital marketers are awashed with data due to the fragmentation of consumer attention on many more channels.

PAPIs is the premier forum for the presentation of new machine learning APIs, techniques, architectures and tools to build predictive applications. It is a community conference that brings together practitioners from industry, government and academia to present new developments, identify new needs and trends, and discuss the challenges of building real-world predictive applications. PAPIs '16 is the 3rd International conference on predictive applications and APIs, featuring 3 tracks (Technical, Business, Research) and the 1st AI Startup Battle where the jury is an AI. The audience is a mix of developers, software engineers, all-round data scientists, machine learning specialists, researchers, decision makers, managers, strategists and innovators. Previous editions took place in Sydney (PAPIs '15), Barcelona (PAPIs '14), Paris and Valencia (PAPIs Connect).

PAPIs is the premier forum for the presentation of new machine learning APIs, techniques, architectures and tools to build predictive applications. It is a community conference that brings together practitioners from industry, government and academia to present new developments, identify new needs and trends, and discuss the challenges of building real-world predictive applications. PAPIs '16 is the 3rd International Conference on Predictive APIs and Apps, featuring 3 tracks (Technical, Business, Research) and the 1st AI Startup Battle where the jury is an AI. The audience is a mix of developers, software engineers, all-round data scientists, machine learning specialists, researchers, decision makers, managers, strategists and innovators. Previous editions took place in Sydney (PAPIs '15), Barcelona (PAPIs '14), Paris and Valencia (PAPIs Connect).

Most of our readers are likely very familiar with the concept of startup competitions. It almost seems impossible to keep up with the awards and prizes handed out at such events being held week in and week out. However, we are very proud to share that we were able to pull of a truly unique startup competition yesterday at PAPIs Connect in Valencia, one where human judges stepped aside and let Artificial Intelligence figure out the winner. The brains behind this program was designed by PreSeries, BigML's joint venture with Telefónica Open Future_. As such, this organization marked the first public demo of PreSeries, which also began collecting beta user applications on its web site simultaneously.