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.
>>>Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
>>>Lisa Chai, Co-founder and General Partner at Interwoven Ventures, discusses her firm’s investment thesis.
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Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
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If you have an interest in artificial intelligence, as well as a strong interest in entrepreneurship and starting a business, this is the internship for you.
One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) is the first global virtual accelerator, headquartered in Silicon Valley. We aim to nurture a million entrepreneurs to reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs.
Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
>>>Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures, discusses a non-Unicorn chasing investment thesis.
>>>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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