 |  | | Wednesday, November 13, 2019 • By Eric Eldon | |
| | | This week: for our latest VC survey, we interviewed Los Angeles-based consumer investors about the startups capturing their attention, looked at how image recognition and machine learning are helping shoppers realize their retail dreams and noticed that two arms of Salesforce have made big investments in content management systems. Plus, in the UK, several institutions are leading the class when it comes to turning lab projects into actual products. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Carl Larson Photography / Getty Images | | Los Angeles is a hub for a wide range of startups, but it has two major groupings: consumer-facing startups that tap into Hollywood's marketing culture, and the deep-tech ecosystem created by the city's role as a hub for aerospace, defense and R&D. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Thomas Barwick / Getty Images | | To be forward-looking, brands and retailers are turning to startups in image recognition and machine learning to know, at a very deep level, what each consumer's current context and personal preferences are and how they evolve. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Getty Images | | New research commissioned by UK VC firm Octopus Ventures has put a spotlight on which of the country's higher-ed institutions are doing the most to support spin outs. Read more | | | |
Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS | |  Image Credits: ONYXprj / Getty Images | | Salesforce Ventures, the venture of arm of Salesforce, announced a hefty $300 million investment in Automattic, the company behind WordPress, the ubiquitous content management system (CMS). At the same time, the company was putting the finishing touches on Salesforce CMS, an in-house project it released last week. | | | |
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