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The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. They found that a large part of the accidents were due to random objects falling from trucks on the road. Why Eastern Europe?

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And so, I wanted to develop a company that could solve this problem head-on. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. Sales can be really hard and frustrating at times — so, any way that we could effectively help them find the most targeted leads was something we wanted to develop.

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fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Enlitic builds machine learning-based software for radiologists that produces more accurate and faster assessments.