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August 13, 2020

NGP turns to AI to find hot startups — and shares part of the tech

Nokia's venture capital arm, NGP Capital, is sharing some parts of the data system it created to help find promising startups faster.


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Bo Ilsoe, partner at NGP Capital

Nokia’s venture capital arm NGP Capital has created a machine learning system to find promising startups — and has made some parts of it open source for others to try as well.

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