If you follow technology news and trends long enough, a few statistics pop up again and again. One oft-quoted stat goes something like this: About 90 percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years. Now, we've been hearing this factoid for years, so it's possibly time for some underemployed MBA to redo the math. However, the bottom line: There is a isht-ton of data out there today, and more and more companies are developing ways to corral and coax that information into valuable insights for a price. Combining these big data sets with artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning, has given birth to an entire industry of predictive analytics.

Industrial IoT startup, Petasense was selected by leading venture capital firms, Data Collective and Emergence Capital, as one of the ten most disruptive machine learning startups out of over 350 contenders. The process was highly competitive with a selection rate of under 3%. This puts Petasense amongst the most promising startups implementing machine learning to solve an important real world problem. Petasense, along with nine others, was invited to participate in Google's machine learning event at the Google Launchpad in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. All ten companies were awarded $200,000 in Google Cloud Platform credits and an opportunity to pitch to an exclusive group of VCs, and experts in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence.