AI Unicorns: Mistral AI Brings Stiff Competition to Other LLMs

In a market where Open AI and Anthropic remain the giants, there is a relatively new entrant in the space, that is causing quite a stir. Paris-based Mistral AI has been building an alternative to the large language models, and it is being rewarded with a significant market valuation.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve recently talked to a number of people who are looking at the services aspect and the human-in-the-loop aspect. Have you invested in companies with human-in-the-loop?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures (Part 1)

Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures, has been in the industry for a long time and has an interesting perspective on AI investing.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Peruvian Entrepreneur Bootstrapped to $200 Million

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

We hear a lot from Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs. We hear some from Europeans. But thus far, not as much from Latin American entrepreneurs. WEI President Belisario Rosas is Peruvian, and is also interested in fostering further entrepreneurship in Latin America. This is our conversation from 2015.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and what kind of background?

Belisario Rosas: I was born in Lima, Peru.

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Colors: Lighthouse II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Lighthouse II

Lighthouse II | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Yash Hemaraj, General Partner at BGV (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I have one last question, Yash, before we adjourn. The SaaS industry has been around for 15-20 years. Around 2008 is when it started really hitting its stride. It’s 2024, so it’s been a while. Then AI came in around 2015-16. Generative AI came in last year. There are cloud companies, SaaS companies, and vertical SaaS companies that are much further along, that have some heft. But now there are AI companies coming into the same markets with AI-enabled solutions, competing with those somewhat hefty vertical SaaS companies. And the answer from the incumbents is, we do co-pilots to introduce AI into the process.

What are you seeing in the market? It’s not a sufficient solution to produce an AI-enabled SaaS application. What is your perspective? What are you seeing in your portfolio?

Colors: Lighthouse I

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Lighthouse I

Lighthouse I | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 8  x 8, On Paper

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Yash Hemaraj, General Partner at BGV (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So I think the subtlety here is that if the decision makers are not adjacent decision makers, then the whole sales cycle has to be repeated. You may get a referral that, “Oh, we’re using this product and this product is doing well for us.” Right now, from a technology point of view, the same technology can be applied to a lot of different things. Your agent technology, for instance, can be applied to various use cases—like marketing, human resources, or engineering—but these aren’t adjacent use cases. They’re far apart within an organization, and in a larger enterprise, that adds complexity.