Automated Cancer Detection & Self–Driving Cars with Dr. Rasmus Rothe

In this episode of A4N, Dr. Rasmus Rothe joins us to discuss
Merantix, the world’s first AI Venture Studio, which he
co-founded in 2016. We discuss how Merantix companies are shaping
the future by applying machine learning to automating cancer
detection, training self-driving cars, and more!


Dr. Rasmus Rothe is a German native, and co-founder of Merantix,
the world’s first AI-focused venture studio. Merantix has already
launched three successful AI-driven companies with three more
operating in stealth, and raised an additional EUR 25 MM in 2020
to continue to apply world-class AI research to solving practical
issues. Rasmus published 15+ papers on deep learning while
attending Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich, where he received his
Ph.D. in computer vision and deep learning. Before founding
Merantix, Rasmus worked for BCG, Google, and built a deep
learning service with 150m+ users. He is also a founding board
member of the German AI Association.


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1:53 Previous episode of A4N


2:05 racy doctoral research


2:28 Merantix


5:27 Deep Learning Illustrated


14:35 Merantix raised 25m euros


20:00 Vara Healthcare


20:10 Vara raised 6.5m euros ($7m) in Series A venture capital


31:41 Siasearch


38:50 Dr. Alex Flint's start-up, Zippy, was acquired by General
Motors' self-driving car unit in 2018


41:30 German A.I. Association


46:20 Dr. Rasmus Rothe's LinkedIn


46:28 Rasmus on Twitter


47:15 Jon Krohn on LinkedIn


47:40 Jon Krohn's email newsletter signup on his homepage


48:00 Jon on Twitter