682nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: April 24 – AI Investment Thesis with Piyush Kharbanda, Vertex Ventures

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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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Google’s Wiz Acquisition

Yesterday, Alphabet aka Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced its first quarter results that soared past market expectations. The stock climbed 5% in the after-hours trading session post results announcement.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I think what you’re saying is, the entrepreneur team’s domain knowledge is really what you’re putting the premium on to build something that is intense in workflow or domain-related value add. The AI is an enabler of that value add but not the critical piece. The AI technology itself is not the big enabler.

682nd 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 15 Minutes

Today’s 682nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 15 minutes, on Thursday, April 24, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Cloud Stocks: IBM’s AI Services Focus

Yesterday, IBM (NYSE:IBM) reported its first quarter results that outpaced market expectations. Despite the cautious operating environment, IBM reiterated its outlook as it expects its focus on AI initiatives to drive growth.

1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors (Part 1)

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.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a New Age AI Services Venture

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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