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In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 526th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs April 8, 2021
Sramana Mitra: The AI sector of the industry, which is not actually a sector but a horizontal technology that is being applied to all kinds of sectors, has exploded even with the downturn. The amount of money that has gone into AI startups globally is huge. It doesn’t seem to have missed any beat in
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Dean A. Stoecker is Executive Chairman and founding partner of Alteryx, a leading software developer and a pioneer of agile business intelligence technology with analytics. We had this conversation in 2012 when Dean was CEO. Prior to Alteryx, Dean led business development efforts for Integration Technologies,
Sramana Mitra: What are the kind of things that you have invested in AI? What is your investment thesis on AI? Rajeev Madhavan: In AI, we have a company called Reflection which has been doing e-commerce. Today, when you shop on many of the websites, you and I would get the same webpage. You may
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Sramana Mitra: What has been the experience at your fund in your existing portfolio companies as well as new investments? John Frankel: We were very concerned in March and April that our companies would be hit hard. Some were hit hard, however, since we predominantly invest in secular rather cyclical businesses our companies held up
Sramana Mitra: There are a couple of questions that come into my mind as I am listening to you. First in the battery company, how did you do technology validation in making this investment? What did the company come to you with? What was the decision to assume that this team can build this technology?