1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Yanni, you said you are investing in superintelligence. Tell me more about what you’ve invested in and your thesis on superintelligence.

Yanev Suissa: We have one key investment in a superintelligence company founded by the original CTO of OpenAI—the person who helped start the AI revolution. For us, it’s a smart bet on a brilliant technologist who understands how to architect the future.

AI technologies are tools for specific purposes. You can use superintelligence for many things—managing a broader business, making decisions, adapting, sensing. But there are cases where it’s unnecessary. For certain verticals, a smaller LLM can solve the problem more efficiently.

With superintelligence, challenges like time, compute weight, power, and latency must be addressed. The key is not just building superintelligence, but making it work from ROI and execution perspectives.

Sramana Mitra: So, what is your company doing? Is it going for a generic superintelligence or focusing on large but specific vertical problems? For example, Demis Hassabis’ vision with AlphaFold—curing all diseases—is a great application of superintelligence.

Yanev Suissa: I can’t share too much about what the company is building. It’s the most secretive company I’ve engaged with in my 20+ years in venture, given the founder’s background as OpenAI’s founding CTO.

The premise is that the current approach to AI may not be the best. There are other ways to build systems that are scalable and ethics-focused, with these principles built-in rather than layered on. That’s what they’re working on.

AI is already solving major problems. Healthcare, in particular, is one of the fastest-moving applications besides search.

Sramana Mitra: And in healthcare, the benefits are overwhelmingly positive, even with broader moral debates around AI.

Yanev Suissa: There’s always some ambiguity, but I agree—it’s predominantly very good.

Sramana Mitra: What are you looking to invest in? What excites you in terms of company types?

Yanev Suissa: Investments need to align with scalability and adaptability. Recognizing that the world is variable is key. Agentic AI is a hot area because it addresses that variability. The technology is finally catching up to our thesis. Modular components can now be connected with the right data at the right time for the right user.

But we still need solutions that can assemble, orchestrate, plan, secure, observe performance, and help businesses make real decisions.

Despite massive AI budgets, only around 3–5% has actually been used by businesses. The gap exists because the tech still has a long way to go in integrating with real business data and enabling decisions.

We need to move from information to knowledge to real intelligence—learning, action, and adaptation. We still have progress to make, but it’s moving fast, and I think we’ll get there.

One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) is the first global virtual accelerator in the world, founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley serial Entrepreneur Sramana Mitra. It offers a fully online entrepreneurship incubation, acceleration and education resource for solo entrepreneurs and bootstrapped founders working on tech and tech-enabled services ventures. 1Mby1M does not charge equity, offers an AI Mentor available 24/7 in 57 languages, and offers a compelling alternative to Y Combinator and other equity accelerators.

This segment is part 4 in the series : 1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures
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