1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Yes. In all our discussions last year on AI, human centric AI was front and center. AI is in enterprises, AI is in small businesses, but it’s either a human using AI as whether it’s a co-pilot or an assistant, whatever; but it’s the human making the decisions. It’s the human using the AI to do his or her job faster, more efficiently, et cetera.

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May 1 – 683rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 683rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, May 1, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to Pitch and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to Attend to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

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682nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Piyush Kharbanda, Vertex Ventures

Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

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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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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.