Roundtable Recap: May 29 – AI Investment Thesis with Warren Packard, AI Fund

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.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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685th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Manu Rekhi, Inventus Capital Partners

Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures (Part 1)

Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

680th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Mark Phillips, 11 Tribes Ventures

Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures, discusses a non-Unicorn chasing investment thesis.

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679th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Shripati Acharya, Priven Ventures

Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, discusses his firm’s AI Investment Thesis. We have a very strategic discussion on SaaS, Marketplaces and Agentic AI.

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2025 Resolution: Secure Meaningful Investor Introductions for Your Startup

Will you be seeking investor introductions for your startup in 2025?

Top VC funds operate in the 98% rejection rate zone.

Let’s avoid the pitfalls of wasting time and money without achieving results.

If you are looking for investor introductions, you have to be READY.

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2025 Resolution: Make VCs Pursue YOU to Fund Your Startup

Please post this on your wall in 2025:

“Startups: Do NOT Go to VCs as Beggars. Go as Kings.”

This is the 1Mby1M mantra and it works.

Over 99% of founders chase funding before they are fundable.

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AI Investor Forum: Gus Tai on AI in Healthcare (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s shift to medical imaging, which is another area where AI is having lots of impact. There are lots of companies working in this field, and lots of entrepreneurial efforts going on in this field. The question that I’m of thinking about is that, are these going to be unicorn style opportunities?