Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
by Connie Loizos
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, but like all good things, it ran its course and by the end of 2017, having accomplished what he wanted at the company, he left.