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Voyage Acquired by Cruise
Talks about Startup, Autonomous Cars and Self Driving Cars
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Oliver Cameron
Founder of Odyssey
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Oliver Cameron is the CEO at Odyssey, with a background that includes co-founding successful startups like Voyage and Everyme. He has invested in various companies in the AI sector and has held leadership roles at prominent organizations like Cruise and Udacity.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2023 - Current
Odyssey is building Hollywood-grade visual AI, where beautiful scenery, characters, lighting, and motion can be both generated and directed. Odyssey's mission is to deliver a better way to create movies, TV shows, and video games.
Board Member
2021
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation. Their story starts with fully autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicles with vertical take-off and landing capability and used for cargo transportation.
Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization.
Raised $16,120,000.00 from Defense Angels.
VP, Product
2021 - 2023
Cruise is building the world's most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about. I led Cruise's Product team, joining through the acquisition of Voyage.
Co-Founder & CEO
2017 - 2021
Voyage developed and deployed self-driving cars designed for senior citizens who struggled to drive. Voyage's first product was an autonomous taxi service located within a 160,000 resident retirement community in Florida. Voyage raised $52M in venture capital from Khosla Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Initialized Capital, and CRV. Cruise acquired Voyage in March 2021.
Voyage has built the technology to bring autonomous transportation to those who need it most, beginning in retirement communities.
Raised $51,219,237.00 from Franklin Templeton, MS&AD Ventures, Khosla Ventures, InMotion Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures.
VP, Product & Engineering
2013 - 2017
Udacity was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online to anyone, for free. Over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled and not much later, Udacity was born. At Udacity, I led a 200-strong Product, Engineering, and Content team, focusing on our autonomous vehicle, robotics, artificial intelligence, and deep learning curriculum.
Co-Founder & CEO
2008 - 2013
Everyme made your address book intelligent. Everyme was funded by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Tencent.
Education
Intro to Artificial Intelligence
2012 - 2012
Artificial Intelligence for Robotics
2013 - 2013
Reinforcement Learning
2015 - 2015
Deep Learning
2016 - 2016
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree
2016 - 2016
Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
2016 - 2016
Deep Learning Nanodegree
2016 - 2016
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
2008 - 2009