1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you an interesting question. We have companies like this in our portfolio—really interesting, exciting companies. There is a question these companies have to answer: which go-to-market strategy, which business model do they go with? Do they sell software to clients, or do they sell services to end customers? Because in

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a broader trend question based on this case study you just took us through, which is really exciting and interesting. There is a lot of talk right now in the industry about full vertical AI solutions in various industry spaces. How do you see that playing out?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take a few of your investments through Geek Ventures that fit into these three buckets of your investment thesis, and do some case studies. As you talk about them, explain how they found you or how you found them, and what made you decide to write the check.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I want to understand how you find companies. You talked about five unicorns that you invested in as an angel investor, two of which we’ve had here in our Entrepreneur Journey series — People.ai and PandaDoc. I know those companies well. How did they come to you, or how did you find them?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures (Part 1)

Ihar Mahaniok is Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. We have an excellent discussion on AI trends and startup opportunities.

701st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures

Ihar Mahaniok is Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. We have an excellent discussion on AI trends and startup opportunities.

701st 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Roundtable Recap: September 4 – AI Investment Thesis with Ihar Mahaniok, Geek Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ihar Mahaniok, Managing Partner at Geek Ventures. We had an excellent discussion on AI trends and startup opportunities. AvQuint Innovations As for pitches, first up we had Shantanu Sonawane from Pune, India, pitch AvQuint Innovations, a hardware product for automatically covering cars. Jaovi-Go Then we had

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