Roundtable Recap: August 7 – 1Mby1M AI Star Data Poem’s Investor Pitch

During this week’s roundtable, first we had Jean-Philippe ‘JP’ Persico, Cofounder and Managing Partner at shuckerVC, discuss his firm’s investment thesis.

Data Poem

As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Bharath Gaddam from New York pitch Data Poem. Bharath is a premium member of the 1Mby1M program and has bootstrapped an AI venture to $5M in revenue and repeatability. You can read his Entrepreneur Journeys interview and learn more about the company.

Satlights

Next, we had Rishab Dhar from Basel, Switzerland, pitch Satlights, an AI recruitment software.

RAIDU

Then we had Shiva Ganesh, from Wilmington, Delaware, pitch RAIDU, an AI solution for regulated industries to manage their data infrastructure.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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