In the past year, 330 out of 1200 Unicorns have lost status. You read a lot about Unicorns that raise lots of VC money and then fail to scale. Cynthia Chen tells a very different story. She has raised about $43M and built a highly profitable $100M+ ARR company called Kikoff. Read on to learn how.
>>>David Evans, Managing Partner at Sentiero Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
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Felix Hartmann, Managing Partner at Hartmann Capital, discusses his firm’s investment thesis. This segment triggered an excellent discussion on Human Augmentation.
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Lisa Chai, Co-founder and General Partner at Interwoven Ventures, discusses her firm’s investment thesis.
>>>Ganesh has executed on a textbook case study of building a vertical AI company in Healthcare with a clear human-in-the-loop strategy that VCs are salivating over. Read on, much to learn.
>>>Warren Packard, Partner at AI Fund, discusses his firm’s investment thesis. Instead of founders pitching, the AI Fund operates as a Venture Studio and recruits repeat entrepreneurs with domain knowledge to build ventures based on their ideas.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had Warren Packard, Partner at AI Fund, discuss his firm’s investment thesis. Instead of founders pitching, the AI Fund operates as a Venture Studio and recruits repeat entrepreneurs with domain knowledge to build ventures based on their ideas.
Revive Analytics
As for our entrepreneur pitches, we first had Modi Daryani from Pune, India, pitch Revive Analytics. Modi needs to validate and position before spending more time building the product.
APL System
Next, we had Laurence Gontariu from Bucharest, Romania, pitch APL System, a semiconductor process innovation.
Eco Genie Services
Then we had Gitanjali Chandrasekharan from Mumbai, India, pitch Eco Genie Services, a green business services idea.
Digital Ads Idea
And then Jabeer Hussain from Hyderabad, India, pitched a texting platform.
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Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
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