Lattice Data (acquired by Apple)

Lattice is a data intelligence company transforming “Dark Data”, such as unstructured text, into high quality structured data for use by traditional data analysis tools. Lattice was founded by Chris Re (Stanford, MacArthur Genius Award winner) and Mike Cafarella (co-creator of Hadoop). Lattice is commercializing DeepDive, which was developed at Stanford by our founder Chris Re for over 6 years with $20M in funding from DARPA and others. Our product has already been successfully deployed in the fight against human trafficking (as featured on CBS News 60 Minutes) as part of the DARPA/Memex project. Our platform reads unstructured media and converts it into structured data that can be used by traditional data analysis tools. We use advanced machine learning techniques, coupled with a rigorous engineering approach, to outperform human readers in many fields including scientific, insurance and government applications.