Thanks! I'm one of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15).
You hit the nail on the head. We've been trying to promote more sophisticated optimization approaches since the company formed 4 years ago and are happy to see firms like Google, Amazon, IBM, and SAS enter the space. We definitely feel like the tide of education lifts all boats. Literally everyone doing advanced modeling (ML, AI, simulation, etc) has this problem and we're happy to be the enterprise solution to firms around the world like you mentioned. We provide differentiated support and products from some of these methods via our hosted ensemble of techniques behind a standardized, robust API.
We're active contributors to the field as well via our peer reviewed research [1], sponsorships of academic conferences like NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, and free academic programs [2]. We're super happy to see more people interested in the field and are excited to see where it goes!
You hit the nail on the head. We've been trying to promote more sophisticated optimization approaches since the company formed 4 years ago and are happy to see firms like Google, Amazon, IBM, and SAS enter the space. We definitely feel like the tide of education lifts all boats. Literally everyone doing advanced modeling (ML, AI, simulation, etc) has this problem and we're happy to be the enterprise solution to firms around the world like you mentioned. We provide differentiated support and products from some of these methods via our hosted ensemble of techniques behind a standardized, robust API.
We're active contributors to the field as well via our peer reviewed research [1], sponsorships of academic conferences like NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, and free academic programs [2]. We're super happy to see more people interested in the field and are excited to see where it goes!
[1]: https://sigopt.com/research
[2]: https://sigopt.com/edu