Sramana Mitra: I’ve recently talked to a number of people who are looking at the services aspect and the human-in-the-loop aspect. Have you invested in companies with human-in-the-loop?
Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures, has been in the industry for a long time and has an interesting perspective on AI investing.
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Sramana Mitra: I have one last question, Yash, before we adjourn. The SaaS industry has been around for 15-20 years. Around 2008 is when it started really hitting its stride. It’s 2024, so it’s been a while. Then AI came in around 2015-16. Generative AI came in last year. There are cloud companies, SaaS companies, and
Sramana Mitra: So I think the subtlety here is that if the decision makers are not adjacent decision makers, then the whole sales cycle has to be repeated. You may get a referral that, “Oh, we’re using this product and this product is doing well for us.” Right now, from a technology point of view, the
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Benjamin Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, discusses his AI investment point of view.
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