| 词条 | Urban Engines |
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}}{{Infobox company | name = Urban Engines | logo = Urban Engines logo.png | type = Private (acquired by Google) | key_people = Shiva Shivakumar (Co-Founder and CEO) Balaji Prabhakar (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist) [1] | industry = Data Analytics | products = | assets = | num_employees = | foundation = | location = Los Altos, CA | homepage = [https://www.urbanengines.com/ www.urbanengines.com] }}Urban Engines is a data analytics startup based in Silicon Valley, acquired by Google in September 2016, that uses data to give insight into cities and how people move around in them.[2] Founder and CEO Shiva Shivakumar says the company is mapping the “Internet of Moving Things,” as quoted by the New York Times, which is a new way of mapping objects in motion.[3] The company’s goal is to improve mobility in cities.[4] Urban Engines has developed a new type of database, which maps objects in motion, called a “Space/Time Engine”,[3] and currently has deals with cities like, Washington D.C., São Paulo and Singapore[5] as well as delivery and logistics companies.[2] The company also released a commuter app with “mixed-mode routing,”[6] which evaluates different modes of transportation – walking, driving, public transit, and Uber – to give users the quickest routes.[6] The app is built on Urban Engines own proprietary mapping system.[4] History and fundingThe company was founded by Shiva Shivakumar and Balaji Prabhakar. Shiva was previously VP of Engineering and a Distinguished Entrepreneur at Google (2001-2010), who helped build Adsense, Search Appliances and Cloud Apps, and Balaji is a Stanford professor and director of the Stanford Center for Societal Networks, a prominent research initiative to make societal networks smarter, more scalable and more efficient.[7] Urban Engines has raised an undisclosed amount of money led by Google Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Greylock, Samsung Ventures, early Google investor Ram Shriram and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt also participated.[5] References1. ^{{cite web|title=CrunchBase|url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/urban-engines#/entity|publisher=CrunchBase|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|title=Computerworld|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2882732/urban-engines-using-data-to-power-a-better-commute.html|publisher=Computerworld|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=The New York Times|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/a-new-mobile-map-captures-internet-of-moving-things/|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|title=Jacksonville Business Journal|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2015/06/10/new-transit-app-has-goals-even-bigger-than-helping.html|publisher=Jacksonville Business Journal|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|title=Recode|url=http://recode.net/2014/05/15/google-backed-startup-develops-mobile-games-to-ease-urban-congestion/|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|title=TechCrunch|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/09/urban-engines-wants-to-help-you-leverage-all-forms-of-transit/#.jgndsu:C80R|publisher=TechCrunch|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=TechCrunch|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/backed-by-google-ventures-and-eric-schmidt-urban-engines-wants-to-solve-urban-congestion-using-data-intelligence/|publisher=TechCrunch|accessdate=10 December 2015}} 1 : Computer companies |
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