New Course – How VC Investors Think About AI Startups + Coupons

Our new course, How VC Investors Think About AI Startups, cuts through the hype surrounding AI to offer entrepreneurs real insights into what drives investor decision-making in this space. It shares the perspectives of venture capitalists who are actively investing in AI startups, with a focus on how machine learning is influencing their strategies. Through

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc (Part 1)

Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc, discusses his AI investment thesis and shares his firm’s use of AI in monitoring investment-worthy startups.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Rajeev Madhavan, Clear Ventures (Part 1)

Rajeev Madhavan, Founder and General Partner at Clear Ventures, discusses how he is investing in AI startups and what he is learning from the market.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital (Part 1)

Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital, discusses how he is thinking about investing in AI. There’s a lot of confusion around AI right now. The hype is astronomical. Amidst this noisy environment, we’re trying to bring you some signal, some wisdom.

Bootstrapping a Generative AI Venture Using Services: Abhinav Girdhar, Founder CEO of Appy Pie (Part 1)

Abhinav has built a $15M+ ARR business by bootstrapping using services. Of his three products, one is a GenerativeAI design tool. Read on for more nuance. Sramana Mitra: All right, Abhinav, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, where were you born, raised, what kind of background?

Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about the next round of financing now. You went from $1 million to $4 million, and then you raised another $12 million round of financing, where were you expanding? Where were you investing at this point?

Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, when you raised $3.5 million, what did you determine as the place where you needed to invest? Was it people? Was it a certain go-to-market strategy where you were doing customer acquisition? This is a sales-based business, right? It’s a business where you have to actually do the selling. It’s not a

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Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So it took you four or five years of bootstrapped business building – building the product, getting the POCs going and so forth to get to $1 million ARR. How many POC customers or the $60,000 ARR kind of range customers did you have in the pipeline when you went out to raise

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