Sramana Mitra: Let me just comment on what you said. The problem with the venture capital model that we have arrived at this point over the last, let’s say 30 years, is that it is all consuming. The investors expect the entrepreneur to put everything aside except for making the venture a success; and that
Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures, discusses a non-Unicorn chasing investment thesis.
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Jonathan has found a great, very large niche within the AI-powered Developer Tools space.The idea was born out of deep domain knowledge and customer exposure. VCs love such depth of technical insights and have funded Moderne lavishly.
Anupam Rastogi, Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis. Welcome to the program, and let’s talk about what you are up to with Emergent Ventures and AI. We started with this watershed moment of generative AI coming into the picture in 2023 and now almost two years hence, AI has moved
Sramana Mitra: What else are you looking at, thinking about, interested in investing in in terms of AI companies? What are you looking for? Raju Reddy: For me, Sramana, pretty much all my investments have been at a very early seed stage.
Sramana Mitra: The other really interesting area that I find very promising is that there are a lot of services companies out there and there’s so much AI technology right now to make services efficient. You almost can productize your services. If you have a hundred clients that you’re providing services to, you should be
Sramana Mitra: You know, we’ve had several discussions on AI-enabled drug discovery in, towards the end of last year. We have covered AI-enabled drug discovery on our blog quite extensively. It’s an area that I think is super exciting and super promising. Now, the conclusion that was coming out of those discussions was that drug