Anboto the world's startup of 2010, at Stanford

After more than 30 Pitch Slams on five continents over the last 10 months, Anboto Group was named the Startup of the Year at Guidewire Group’s Innovate!Summit 2010.

Anboto is the company leader in Semantic and Natural Language technology applied to Web Customer Service and eCommerce.

Xavier Uribe-Etxebarria, the CEO and Basque Entrepreneur gave a talk at Stanford European Entrepreneurship program last week. The slides of his presentation are here. Congratulations!

Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria - Anboto - Stanford - Feb 7 2011

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By the way Anboto is the name of one Basque mountain!

Intelligent Systems Group

This group, based at the Computer Science Faculty of University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, combines what in essence is the root of success for many well known online businesses. Their activities are right now concentrated on:

INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS

• Bayesian Networks, specially for supervised classification
• Clustering techniques
• Data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery from databases, in general
• Feature Subset Selection in Machine Learning
• Statistical Methods for data analysis

Optimization

• Genetic Algorithms
• Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA)

Applications

• Biomedical domains. Data modelization for diagnosis and prognosis problems.
• Bioinformatics. Biomarker discovery.
• Oceanographic domains. Ecologycal domains.

High-performace computing

• Parallel implementation of techniques developed or used at ISG
• Parallel computing hardware
• Interconnection networks
• Grid computing
• Application of machine learning and optimization techniques to scheduling mechanisms

Update 11th Nov 2010. Researchers willing to join these teams or others in the Basque Country, should apply to Ikerbasque. Next call is due end of 2010 to start in 2011.

Khegal Aeronautica

It is a basque firm, that supplies components to the aeronautics, oil, automotive and marine industries.

Read their simulation platform case study here.

Khegal is an SME created and supported by the local entrepreneurship Bic-Berrilan.

Ikerchem: Pharmacy, Chemical and Computational Design

Extremely good and important news:

"IkerChem specializes in the computational design and synthesis of Novel Chemical Entities (NCEs) with therapeutic applications in oncology."

They have recently won a National entrepreneurship award, prestigious emprendedorxxi sponsored by la Caixa.

Surfing the web I found this interesting interview in English. I would like to highlight the following part:

"Computing greatly facilitates laboratory work, is that right?

Yes, undoubtedly; and even more so being a small enterprise. One of the approaches of the multinationals is to take a group of compounds and subject them to massive trials to see which are the four or five molecules that might function. We do not have the wherewithal to carry out this in such a wide-scale manner. This is why our approach is based on analysing the biological system on the computer and undertaking amore selective search."

Finally a video from the contest -in spanish, though:



And this is what I call multidisciplinary and success. A group that emerged from the basque university, that probably used its computing and modest resources and that has such a promising future ahead. These are the people to help.