Jean-Philippe ‘JP’ Persico, Cofounder and Managing Partner at shuckerVC, discusses his firm’s investment thesis.
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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.
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Enterprise collaboration solutions provider Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM) announced its results yesterday that outpaced market expectations. However, a weaker outlook did not please the market.
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Sramana Mitra: What are you looking for? If you were to project out what excites you, what kind of trends are you monitoring that you would like to see deal flow around?
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