PreSeries, the joint venture between Telefónica Open Future_ and BigML, has been invited to join the exclusive Four Years From Now (4YFN) event. 4YFN is the startup focused platform of the Mobile World Congress that enables investors and corporations to connect with the chosen entrepreneurs to launch new ventures together. As part of this year’s 4YFN agenda, we will also be presenting the fourth edition of the Artificial Intelligence Startup Battle, which takes place on Tuesday February 28, at the main stage of 4YFN in Barcelona, Spain. More than 500 technologists and decision makers will witness the power of the PreSeries Machine Learning algorithms, that predict the probability of success of any startup even in their early stages. There won’t be any humans involved in deciding the winner, PreSeries AI is the sole jury as we have showcased in previous battles.

If you plan on going to 4YFN, do not hesitate to come by the PreSeries booth at the Telefónica Open Future_ stand, where we’ll be ready to answer all your questions regarding our technology, product, new features, etc., from today Monday February 27 until Wednesday March 1.

Meet the contenders!

The four contenders will each give a four-minute pitch to the audience followed by PreSeries asking them a number of question in order to provide them with a score between 0 and 100. At this point, you may be wondering who will be competing in the battle, so let’s get to know the contenders!

Action AI

Action.ai, from London, develops smart Chatbots that revolutionize interaction. They transform business processes or user experiences by changing the way people achieve tasks that meet their needs both in their personal and professional lives. Action.ai’s technology enables industry-leading services to be launched without huge Capex or expertise in AI or Chatbots.

Descifra

Descifra, from Mexico City, is an online service that helps businesses to understand the characteristics of the markets around them through easy to grasp charts, tables, and maps. They advise other companies on where to build their business by taking into consideration the level of competition and the market characteristics in a certain geographic area.

people.io

people.io, also from London, gives people ownership of their data to enable the next phase in the evolution of human connectivity. Users of people.io earn credits each time they take an action such as answering a question or connecting a new data source like their email or bank accounts. As the type and amount of data associated with a given user increases, people.io starts match users with relevant brands and advertisers. Each time a user is “matched”, they receive a brief update from the advertiser, which offers the user extra credits for viewing or engaging with their content. However, at no point in the whole process does a brand or advertiser get direct access to the users’ profile data.

Pixoneye

Pixoneye, from London and Tel Aviv, is a unique company with the ability to analyze the untapped power of users’ mobile photo galleries on behalf of their clients. In doing so, the company provides best in market real-time behavioral understanding and targeting capabilities for their clients’ ads, offers and services. Pixoneye team consists of some of the leading minds in computer vision and deep learning, and has recently been named one of the five AI companies to watch out for in 2017.

These four contesting startups will be showcased on Tuesday February 28, at the main stage of 4YFN. For those that can’t make it to the live event, our subsequent blog posts will share the results of the fourth edition of the AI Startup Battle. Good luck to all contenders!

About PreSeries events and battles

PreSeries was born in March 2016 and officially started its journey of re-imagining early stage technology venture investing by taking an unorthodox, AI-driven approach showcased via the world premiere of Artificial Intelligence Startup Battle at the PAPIs Connect Conference in Valencia. Thanks to the continuation of AI Startup Battles in Boston and Brazil, as well as our collaboration at WIRED London 2016, the startup community has a new-found appreciation of how Machine Learning can be utilized to better allocate venture capital.

Be sure to follow the upcoming PreSeries’ battles in 2017 as they will be announced on the BigML event’s page as well as on Preseries.com. Among other venues, these will include the battles that we will present at PAPIs ‘17 and PAPIs Connect. For more details, please stay tuned by following us on: LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. The countdown starts now!