Roundtable Recap: July 10 – AI Investment Thesis with Ray Wu, Alumni Ventures AI Fund

During this week’s roundtable, we had Ray Wu, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures AI Fund, discussing the fund’s investment thesis.

Axon Network KI

As for our entrepreneur pitches, first we had Antony Alappatt from Chennai, India, pitch Axon Network Karmic Intelligence.

Q3D Sensing, Inc.

Next we had Tainyue Yu from Santa Clara, California, pitch Q3D Sensing, Inc.

MeloMatch

Then we had Nandini Zunder from Bangalore, India, pitch MeloMatch.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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