Paris, April 15 – Verteego, a company specializing in data science and publisher of an Artificial Intelligence platform, has been selected by Facebook to join the cast of the 3rd season of the Startup Garage program.
It joins the 25 other companies selected – out of 300 – for a 6-month trip during which Facebook France and its partners (Startup Palace, La Javaness, Wesprint, Marseille Innovation) will provide expertise and advice to assist the 26 companies in their growth and innovation projects. This initiative was launched in January 2017 by Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, which aims to support and assist innovative companies and providers of socially useful services.
For 6 months Verteego will dispose:
- Technical workshops with talents and experts in AI, data, UX, Product Management from Facebook and in particular Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research;
- Excellence coaching by mentors to work on economic and entrepreneurial models;
- Expertise to bring out better data protection processes;
- Access to a community of companies that are resolutely disruptive and oriented towards social innovation through data.
“Our desire to participate in this ambitious program has been rewarded. We are very proud to be part of this technological ecosystem. We look forward to learning and collaborating with mentors at the forefront of data processing,” says Clément Guillon, COO of Verteego.