Nicholson is an American entrepreneur and writer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence/deep learning company Skymind and co-creator of the open source framework Deeplearning4. He previously served as head of communications and recruiting for almost two years at the Sequoia Capital-backed startup, FutureAdvisor. FutureAdvisor is a robo-advisor that was acquired by BlackRock for a reported $150 million to $200 million in 2015.
“At Skymind, we’re tackling some of the most advanced problems in data analysis and machine intelligence. We offer state-of-the-art, flexible, scalable deep learning for industry. Deep learning is becoming an important tool set for natural-language processing (NLP), computer vision, database predictions, pattern recognition, image/video processing and fraud detection.”
