At 1Mby1M, we believe in learning from case studies of successful entrepreneurs. These case studies involve discussions on opportunities and challenges specific to the domain such as Generative AI, E-Commerce, Digital Health, Cyber Security, and FinTech.
>>>During this week’s roundtable, we had Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures discuss his firm’s AI investment thesis.
KLVIN
As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Vinay Kumar Kolusu from Hyderabad, India, pitch KLVIN, an India-facing B2B SaaS play.
Prosperity CoPilot
Then we had Martin Athanas from Mumbai, India, pitch Prosperity CoPilot, a B2C Freemium play.
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Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, discusses his firm’s AI Investment Thesis. We have a very strategic discussion on SaaS, Marketplaces and Agentic AI.
>>>CEO Anji Maram has bootstrapped CriticalRiver to $50M in revenue and is introducing AI into his services business model. We expect to see a lot of this happening all over the tech services ecosystem. AI Services is going to become a massively valuable category.
Sramana Mitra: All right, Anji, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of background?
Anji Maram: I’m originally from India as you can tell by my name. I’m from a small village in Andhra Pradesh in South India. It has a very small population that is pretty much into farming community. My parents did not study, my siblings did not study. I somehow ended up studying.
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Jonathan has found a great, very large niche within the AI-powered Developer Tools space.The idea was born out of deep domain knowledge and customer exposure. VCs love such depth of technical insights and have funded Moderne lavishly.
>>>David Hornik, Founding Partner at Lobby Capital, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis. This is an excellent discussion spanning Agentic AI and Ultralight startups.
>>>Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, discusses his firm’s AI Investment Thesis. We have a very strategic discussion on SaaS, Marketplaces and Agentic AI.
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Anupam Rastogi, Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
Welcome to the program, and let’s talk about what you are up to with Emergent Ventures and AI. We started with this watershed moment of generative AI coming into the picture in 2023 and now almost two years hence, AI has moved at a breakneck pace.
So, my first question is, where is your head vis-a-vis AI? How are you parsing all the happenings of the world? How are you framing your investment thesis and so on?
>>>The global AI healthcare market is projected to expand at 38.5% CAGR from $19.27 billion in 2023 to $187.7 billion by 2030 driven by the increasing demand for enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and improved patient outcomes. Palo Alto-based Hippocratic AI has emerged as a significant player in this evolving landscape.
>>>The high growth agentic AI market has attracted several players with startups gaining traction as enterprise interest shifts from passive co-pilots to more autonomous systems. Palo Alto-based Ninjatech AI is one such player in the market.
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