1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of check sizes are we talking about? Evangelos Simoudis: Low hundreds to maybe half a million. Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk a little bit more about the portfolio companies. Let’s actually talk about the two that you talked about that have exited already. Give us a window into what kind of company

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What fund size are we talking? What size of checks are we talking? Evangelos Simoudis: The second part of the question is more important. We invest in every stage if they have a little bit of revenue. We like to see some proof of revenue, some proof that what the company is developing

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Michel Morvan, Co-Founder of Cosmo Tech (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you how. There are certain core technical decisions or choices you have made here to enable this kind of decision making. Could you give us some insights into what those are? Michel Morvan: I mentioned the fact that we created a modelling and simulation platform that is dedicated to the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Dror Ben Naim, CEO of Smart Sparrow (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are the emerging trends in the space and what are the open problems? If you were starting a company today, where would you start one? Dror Ben Naim: I’m a CEO of a company and I’ve got lot of people working for me. They would be very unhappy to hear that their

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Evangelos Simoudis was recorded in November 2018. Evangelos Simoudis, Founder and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, takes us on a deep dive into AI investing. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get acquainted. Tell us

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Michel Morvan, Co-Founder of Cosmo Tech (Part 3)

Michel Morvan: The CEO has to decide to delay these investments and to use the money for some maintenance for some other equipment. To solve it, they have to make choices. This is the first problem. At the same time, you have the renewable energy entering the system. This changes the way some types of equipment

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How Can We Continue to Use Facebook Without Facebook Manipulating Us?

The media is currently rife with articles about Facebook’s various nefarious practices and sinister violations of user privacy. Against that backdrop, I would like to invite my readers to a slightly different discussion: How can we use Facebook without Facebook manipulating us? I am interested in continuing to use Facebook. In various ways, I find

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Dror Ben Naim, CEO of Smart Sparrow (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are you seeing in terms of adoption in the school systems? Dror Ben Naim: Everywhere we look, we’re seeing great interest in the area of personalized learning. It’s not just a buzzword. It’s a reality. What we also see is that certain schools are ahead of others. The classic example is to

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