Uber’s first head of data science just launched a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups – TechCrunch
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its 21st employee its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He transitioned out of the company in late 2017, after Travis Kalanick had been replaced as CEO by Dara Khosrowshahi. But by then, he’d already begun spending weekends and evenings actively…