Harvey danger was an american alternative rock band that was formed in seattle, washington in 1993 by journalism students at the university of washington. Calfounded captricity has a similar origin story developed by kuang chen phd 11. Jan 08, 20 captricity offers an easytouse solution, combining the best of machine learning and human intelligence to capture digital data faster than manual data entry and more accurately than software alone. The companys platform uses cloudnative technology with crowdguided machine learning to extract structured information from different sources like paper documents, scans, faxes, emails, call centers and web forms that can be analyzed and scaled, enabling. Fec contractor outsourcing 60% of labor involved with. Kuangs dissertation research in east africa, where he built software. He explained how enterprises can leverage artificial intelligence to deliver best in class products and. Postbachelor fellowship the roux prize online training courses degree programs workshops about. Captricity reads 91 percent accuracy surpasses human quality and exceeds any previous rates achieved by existing text transcription software. The idea for captricity came from kuangs dissertation research in east africa, where he built software systems to transform paper forms to structured, machinereadable data. Government fda and new york life along with hundreds of nonprofits to solve the papertodigital divide.
Based in berkeley, captricity was founded in 2011 by kuang chen. When i sat down with him at the companys berkeley headquarters to discuss his companys newest launch, a. After a monthlong test earlier this year, the turnaround time fell from two weeks to two days, gayle said. Jul 15, 2014 captricity, digitization and the reduction of paper mountains. Vidado is a 4part ai platform designed to help enterprise businesses extract and digitize otherwiseinaccessible data. Kuang chen, founder and ceo, captricity kuang chen is the founder and ceo of captricity, which gives organizations of all sizes nondisruptive access to their data by bridging people and machines. The 26employee company grew out of chen s 2011 phd thesis in computer science at the. His research focused on datacentric approaches to increase the efficiency of lowresource organizations.
Founder and ceo, captricity the idea for captricity came from kuangs phd dissertation at uc berkeley. His research focused on datacentric approaches to increase the efficiency of lowresource organizations, so they can better serve their disadvantaged clients. A startup takes on the paper problem with crowdsourcing. Jul 15, 2014 captricity was founded by kuang chen, whose phd research in tanzania and uganda revealed the need to transform paperbased documents into digital data to improve organizations efficiency and. Jun 05, 2014 kuang chen cant claim credit for the openfda cloud api announced this week, but his company, captricity, played a role in making it more interesting. May 05, 2020 in 2009, kuang chen, founder and ceo, got the idea for captricity while conducting his phd research in tanzania. Date amountround valuation lead investors investors. Captricity was born of founder kuang chen s graduate research at health clinics in uganda. From large insurance carriers to pharmaceuticals to financial services, vidado is helping these organizations achieve extraordinary success through ai driven intelligent automation. Captricity offers an easytouse solution, combining the best of machine learning and human intelligence to capture digital data faster than manual data entry and more accurately than software alone. Captricity, digitization and the reduction of paper mountains. The idea for captricity came from kuangs phd dissertation at uc berkeley. Sep 20, 20 kuang chen, ceo of captricity, has heard all the jokes about doctors handwriting. Sparkbased databricks was founded out of berkeleys amplab.
Cognitivescale provides industryspecific enterprise cognitive cloud software. The companys platform uses cloudnative technology with crowdguided machine learning to extract structured information from different sources like paper documents, scans, faxes, emails, call centers and web forms that can be analyzed and scaled, enabling enterprises to eliminate. Kuang chen cant claim credit for the openfda cloud api announced this week, but his company, captricity, played a role in making it more interesting. Kuang chen, founder and ceo, captricity salesforce. The idea for captricity came from kuang s phd dissertation at uc berkeley. Captricity, which was founded by berkeley computer science phd candidate kuang chen and musician jeff lin, was subcontracted by a company called. In 2009, kuang chen, founder and ceo, got the idea for captricity while conducting his phd research in tanzania. Captricity company profile office locations, competitors. Captricity now provides its solution and services to organizations like the u. I was looking at the information systems that were available to these lowresource organizations, chen said in a recent phone interview. His research focused on datacentric approaches to increase the e. He holds a phd in computer science from uc berkeley, where his dissertation explored the core technology behind captricity and its role in digitizing information in the developing world. Captricity, a data firm contracted to process paperwork for the federal election commission fec in 2015, is outsourcing up to 60 percent of its labor, according to the firms head of business development.
Captricity may also be an appealing costsaving option for a largescale survey, but in that situation, captricity related considerations should be built into the design of the survey instrument, interviewer training protocols, and so on. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover kuangs. Join facebook to connect with cheng kuang chen and others you may know. Captricity is a startup that takes doctors and nurses handwritten notes and turns them into hipaacompliant digital spreadsheets. When i sat down with him at the companys berkeley headquarters. Massmutual set to launch liferisk360 digital initiative. Kuang holds a phd in computer science from uc berkeley, a bs in computer science and a ba in the comparative history of ideas from the university of. View kuang chens profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional. Buy or sell captricity stock pre ipo via an equityzen fund.
Ceo kuang chen cofounded the oaklandbased startup in 2011 to use deep learning techniques to transform handwritten. Apr 09, 2014 broward found a partner in captricity, which extracts data from paper forms including handwritten notes with a combination of cloudbased optical character recognition software and crowdsourced data entry manpower. Oakland, ca march 20, 2018 newswire captricity, a leader in digital automation for enterprise, is pleased to announce captricity read, the first aipowered software that. But if you can snap and upload an image of that paper. Tr35 awards to shyam gollakota, kuang chen, and kurtis heimerl. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Age progression software from the uw cse graphics and imaging lab. Our planned partnership with liferisk 360 rewards our insurance carriers and their customers by reimagining underwriting as a modern, digital process, said kuang chen, ceo of captricity. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover kuang s. Buy or sell captricity stock pre ipo via an equityzen fund equityzen. Kuang chen institute for health metrics and evaluation. Kuang chen, ceo of captricity source sean culligan ozy captricity s idea itself is simple plug paper into the modern world but the technology to make it happen isnt. Handwriting recognition hwr is an essential task in realms where the use of pen and paper persist.
He holds a phd in computer science from uc berkeley. Massmutual utilized captricity s distinct solution to create a proprietary dataset, which underpins the new liferisk 360 product. Kuang chen, ceo of captricity, has heard all the jokes about doctors handwriting. The firm provides its services to the insurance, healthcare, government and non profit organizations.
Prior to graduate school, he joined his undergraduate mentor in a startup. Massmutual set to launch liferisk 360 digital initiative. Competitors of captricity include clarifai, datarobot and iris. Apr 08, 2014 georgia dislodges massive paper jam with captricity enterprise platform. The thing about an open data set is, if its not totally complete, its not as useful, the captricity ceo and founder said in an interview.
Leveraging ai in the enterprise kuang chen, captricity. Captricity was born of founder kuang chens graduate research at health clinics in uganda. Kuang chen, founder and ceo, captricity the idea for captricity came from kuangs dissertation research in east africa, where he built software systems to transform paper forms to structured. Kuang chen is cofounder and ceo of captricity, the only saas, multichannel, data capture platform that converts information from static documents into 99% accurate, machinereadable data and the first service of its kind to handle handwriting. Uc berkeley boasts an impressive portfolio of data science companies born in the midst of oncampus research. Kuang chen, founder and ceo, captricity salesforce integration. On august 29, 2009, the band played its final show at the crocodile cafe in seattle. Captricity selected to the cb insights 2017 ai 100.
Captricity is a cloudbased service that converts information on paper to digital data rapidly and effectively. Kuang chen, founder and ceo, captricity the idea for captricity came. Developer of an ai based data capture platform designed to turn paper information into digital data. Ai reads handwritten text faster than humans technology. Kuang chen phd 11 propels paperbound data into the digital age. Deployed by the united nations development program to set up a data. The band rose to prominence in 1997 with the single flagpole sitta, which was later used as the theme tune to the british sitcom peep show. Captricity, a leader in digital automation for enterprise, is pleased to announce captricity read, the first aipowered software that. The thing about an open data set is, if its not totally complete, its not as useful, the captricity. Kuang chen cofounded captricity, a tech startup creating a paper form digitization web service.
Captricitys crowdguided deep learning software can extract structured data from any source handwritten forms, web forms, scanned document images. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover kuang han. Kuang chen, founder and ceo at captricity, spoke at data driven nyc on february 28th, 2017. Campaign finance officials aim to cure the paperobsessed. Vidado is the only enterprisegrade solution for digitizing and enriching data of any quality at the scale and speed modern business demands.
Oct 24, 2014 we cheat, says kuang chen, captricity s chief executive. View competitors, revenue, employees, website and phone number. Captricity ai surpasses human ability to read markets. Captricity ai surpasses human ability to read markets insider. A startup takes on the paper problem with crowdsourcing and. Kuang chen founded a company called captricity that uses a clever combination of computing and brainpower to read information on paper forms dozens of times faster and more costeffectively. Kuang chen founded a company called captricity that uses a clever. Captricity lists the insurance industry, in which it serves eight out of the top ten u.
View kuang chen s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Broward college finds new life for paper forms with. Captricity frees government data from paper captivity govfresh. Captricity headquarters is located at 1999 harrison st 24th fl, oakland. Tom anderson wins usenix lifetime achievement award and software tools award.
Elaine zhou, chief technology officer at captricity, inc. The idea for captricity came from kuang s dissertation research in east africa, where he built software systems to transform paper forms to structured, machinereadable data. The idea for captricity came from my graduate research in rural health clinics in. But unlike its calfounded peers, captricity wasnt incubated in a berkeley laboratory. We are hiring passionate, energetic people to help us solve challenging problems for enterprise businesses. Kuang han chen product manager mentor graphics siemens. View kuang chens profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. To celebrate, were reposting our profile of kuang chen from april 2015. When was captricity founded captricity was founded in 2011 who are captricity key executives captricity s key executives are kuang chen how many employees does captricity have captricity has employees who are captricity competitors competitors of captricity include clarifai, datarobot and iris. It engages in the digitizing paper documents that contain humanentered or other unique symbolic data. Surpassing humans with machine reading is a watershed moment for digital automation, kuang chen, founder and ceo of captricity, said.
Mar 20, 2018 captricity reads 91 percent accuracy surpasses human quality and exceeds any previous rates achieved by existing text transcription software. We cheat, says kuang chen, captricity s chief executive. Lin and kuang chen, has its roots in the fieldwork on rural health chen did as part of his phd program. View kuang han chens profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Captricity founder and ceo kuang chen how captricity currently works is this. Georgia dislodges massive paper jam with captricity.
When i sat down with him at the companys berkeley headquarters to discuss his companys newest launch, a hipaa. Captricity is the only software as a service, multichannel data capture platform that. Captricity releases mobile capture app pr newswire. Captricity ceo kuang chen related cloudbased startup connects city forms with gis mapping federal cto todd park announces fda open data portal georgia dislodges massive paper jam with. Calfounded captricity has a similar origin story developed by kuang chen phd 11 as part of his doctoral research in computer science.
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