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10 facts from 7 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2009
Rana el Kaliouby says she started Affectiva out of MIT in 2009, before smartphones were common, to bring computer-vision-based emotion algorithms to the world.
“So I started the company out of MIT, um, in 2009, and we were so early. We were basically pre-smartphones and trying to bring these, like, computer vision-based algorithms to the world”
2020
In fall 2020, during Covid, Rana el Kaliouby asked Rudina Seseri for advice on whether to raise more funding for Affectiva or explore an exit.
“This is about six years ago. Now it was the fall of 2020, so it was during Covid.”
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Rana El Kaliouby co-founded Affectiva, which developed computer vision algorithms such as a smile detector and a drowsiness classifier.
“at Affectiva, the company I co-founded, we were developing all these computer vision algorithms, say, a smile detector or a drowsiness classifier.”
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Rana El Kaliouby said her former company, Affectiva, built emotion recognition technology.
“And in my former life at my company, Affektiva, we built emotion recognition technology.”
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El Kaliouby says her company Affektiva did extensive work in the automotive sector, including semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.
“at my company, Affektiva, we were in the automotive space. We did a lot of work in the semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicle space.”
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Rana El Kaliouby co-founded Affectiva as a spin-out from MIT; the company used computer vision to understand human emotions and facial expressions.
“when I spun up my company out of MIT Affectiva, and we did computer vision to understand human emotions and human facial expressions.”
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Rana El Kaliubi says Kyle Law could instantly retrieve information about her company Affectiva and her podcast.
“He knew about my company, Affectiva, this podcast. I didn't need to explain it to him.”
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Rana el Kaliouby says half of the Fortune 500 companies used Affectiva to test how people respond to content, products and services.
“So half of the Fortune 500 companies use us to test how people respond to content and products and services.”
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Rana el Kaliouby says Affectiva was sold to a Swedish publicly traded company in the automotive space.
“We also, um, ended up selling the company to a Swedish publicly traded company in the automotive space.”
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Rana el Kaliouby says Affectiva's technology was used in the automotive setting to understand driver engagement, attention and drowsiness.
“how are drivers engaged and driver attention and drowsiness, et cetera.”
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