Kasian Franks
Background
Kasian Franks is a serial founder and responsible for starting SeeqPod, Inc. which attracted multibillion-dollar litigation from Warner, EMI, Apple and a number other record companies.[1] He was born and raised in Berkeley, California. Where he studied Computer Science and Software Engineering at UC Berkley, Stanford University, and Diablo Valley College. He is currently working on in the areas of Machine Learning, NLP and cryptocurrency. [2]
Career
While at UC Berkeley, Franks consulted for Genentech and eventually started his own company in 1993, The Berkeley Integration Group, which later landed Genentech as its first client. While working with Genentech, Franks helped develop and manage the Pharmaceutical Recipe Builder (PRB), a toolset for construction and revision control of genetic "recipes" used to design breast cancer, asthma and blood clotting drugs (HER2, DNASE and Protein A).[3]
Franks worked as software engineer and product developer specializing in pattern matching algorithms and tools for companies and organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Motorola, Tivo, mPower (acquired by Morningstar), and X-Mine (Sold to NEC Japan, now called Biocompass) . From 2002-2005, Franks worked as a Genomic Research Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Life Sciences Division, alongside Raf Podowski, and Connie Myers, where he developed the technology behind SeeqPod. Franks began to study biomimetics along with pattern matching in data and nature. This led to 5 patents in the area of search and discovery. Later he went on to start SeeqPod Inc. a music search, discovery and pattern matching company in which the U.S. Department of Energy, along with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, holds a 5% stake. Under Steven Chu and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Franks and SeeqPod won a 2008 R&D 100 Award for biomimetic search engines.[4]
Franks formerly held the CEO and CVO position at SeeqPod. A number of record companies have attempted to sue SeeqPod, including Warner Music Group, Elektra Records, Rhino Records, and most recently EMI and Capitol Records. In addition, a multibillion-dollar lawsuit was filed by EMI and Capital Records against Kasian Franks as the founder of SeeqPod. However, the suit from EMI and Capital Records was thrown out of court.
Due to economic conditions and litigation, SeeqPod filed for bankruptcy protection on April 1, 2009 and continues its acquisition talks with a number of companies interested in its technology.[5]
In January, 2010, Franks founded another company, Mimvi, Inc. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Mimvi, Inc. (OTCBB: MIMV), a pure-play search, discovery and recommendation engine, is the first of its kind to index the world's mobile apps (or applications). The search engine will enable consumers and developers to find any app regardless of platform or device, including: the Apple iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry, Windows and Nokia devices. Mimvi´s technology is based on proprietary search, recommendation and personalization algorithms. Franks served as CEO, CVO, and Chairman until July 2013.[6] He then founded and served as CTO at Pimovi, INC a subsidiary of Chancellor Group, INC. Which developed songcoin, a Bitcoin cryptocurrency fork intended for the music industry. [7]
Recently, he has started two cryptocurrency communities. Starmine (SME) and VectorSpace (VEC). Starmine aims to be a robust scalable platform for constructing, trading and exchanging advanced algorithmically generated on-demand datasets for Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts.[8] Vectorspace uses a biomimetic approach in order to create a platform that enables dynamically generated intelligent "token baskets" based on market sentiment from user-selected trends that exist in search, social media and news. [9]
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