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Palo Alto, CA 94306 The Silicon Valley-based startup, founded in 2017 by Israeli entrepreneurs Itamar Arel and Moshe Looks, develops AI and voice-based conversational technology for …
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In an announcement to Apprent’s website, Arel and Co-founder Moshe Looks said drive-thrus quickly emerged as a good use case for its proprietary AI technology. Intelligent voice-based conversational agents for the enterprise Company profile page for Apprente Inc including stock price, company news, press releases, executives, board members, and contact information. In an effort to bring speech recognition to the drive thru, McDonald’s has acquired conversational artificial intelligence startup Apprente’s technology is already being tested in some McDonald’s locations, to deliver “faster, simpler and more accurate order taking,” according to the repot. Moshe Looks CTO • 3 years. One of the main investors in Apprente is Israeli's venture capital fund StageOne Ventures. McDonald’s said Apprente’s technology could be used in mobile and kiosk ordering, and may allow the fast food restaurants to lower head-count, along with wait times.The Apprente team will become founding members of a new McD Tech Labs, which the restaurant giant says it intends to expand by hiring engineers, data scientists, and others. Arel founded Apprente with CTO Moshe Looks. CTO/Co-Founder.
And Looks is a former software engineer at Google, Novamente, and SAIC. He, his co-founder Moshe Looks and I …
Arel used to be an entrepreneur in residence at AME Cloud Ventures and is the founding CEO of Osaro. Arel is an AI researcher and entrepreneur who served as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee (2003-2013) and a visiting professor at Stanford University’s AI lab (2013-2015), according to Crunchbase. Apprente Co-founder Itamar Arel will be the Vice President of McD Tech Labs.In an announcement to Apprent’s website, Arel and Co-founder Moshe Looks said drive-thrus quickly emerged as a good use case for its proprietary AI technology.“We’ve spent the past couple of years tackling this challenging real-world task, and along the way, we developed novel machine learning and speech understanding technologies, culminating in an industry-leading, robust and scalable solution,” they write.The deal, for which terms were not disclosed, comes after Apprente raised $4.8 million in the two years since its founding.McDonald’s also acquired an online personalization startup, Dynamic Yield, for more than $300 million earlier this year to improve customer experiences at its drive thrus.Copyright © 2020 Biometrics Research Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apprente’s highly specialized team will continue working on novel AI technologies in McDonald’s newly created McD Tech Labs in Mountain View, CA.
9 years at Google (Machine Intelligence, Research, Search), most recently TensorFlow Fold. Itamar Arel CEO • 3 years.