Artomatix founders win $100K from Nvidia for the Early Stage Challenge.
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Deep learning startup Artomatix wins $100K at Nvidia’s startup contest

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN JOSE — Artomatix, a deep learning artificial intelligence startup with tools for game and entertainment companies, won the $100,000 grand prize in a shootout among 12 startups at Nvidia’s Emerging Companies Summit: Early Stage Challenge.

Eric Risser, chief technology officer of Artomatix, made a presentation on stage and accepted the award from Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development at Nvidia. Artomatix makes life easier on video game artists by automating the process of creating art for massive virtual environments.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.