Roundtable Recap: June 26 – AI Investment Thesis with David Evans, Sentiero Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had David Evans, Managing Partner at Sentiero Ventures, discussing his firm’s AI investment thesis.

Espotz

As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Parshavv Jain from Ontario, Canada, pitch espotz.

Inflahormony

Next, we had Yamini Bynagari from San Ramon, California, pitch Inflahormony.

Void

Then we had Venkat Kalyan from Brisbane, Australia, pitch Void.

We also had extensive discussion on equity versus non-equity accelerators. If this topic interests you, please follow my blog series The Accelerator Conundrum.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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