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🚀💡 Revolutionizing VC & PE: The YunoAI Way 💼🎉 In the bustling world of Venture Capitals and Private Equity, the quest for innovation never ends. Traditional methods, like wading through the sea of Codici Ateco, often feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack - with the needle constantly moving! 😅 Enter YunoAI, where we're flipping the script on investment processes. Imagine a world where searching for companies is as easy as asking your smart assistant where you left your keys. With our NLP-powered search, we're making complex codici seem like a relic of the past. 🚀 Here are a few ways YunoAI is setting a new standard in the VC and PE arenas: - Automated Data Capture & AI Search: Say goodbye to manual, time-consuming searches. YunoAI's platform ensures you're always a step ahead, identifying outliers and opportunities with ease. - Data-Driven Approach: Leveraging both structured & unstructured data, we deliver insights that drive down miss rates and spotlight potential unicorns. 🦄 - Simplified Process: With YunoAI, navigating through investment opportunities becomes as simple as browsing your favorite news site, but with the added thrill of uncovering the next big thing. As cited in the "Data-driven VC Landscape 2023," efficiency and precision in sourcing and evaluating investments are key to staying competitive in today's market. YunoAI embodies this principle, providing a solution that not only streamlines the investment process but does so with a level of insight previously unimaginable. In a world where time is money, and information is power, YunoAI is your new best friend in the investment landscape. Let's make the search for the next big investment as enjoyable as discovering a new favorite song. 🎶 Join us on this exciting journey. Follow our LinkedIn page for the latest updates and dive deeper into how we're transforming the VC and PE sectors. Your next investment could be just a search away. #YunoAI #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #Innovation #DataDrivenInvesting #NLP #FutureOfInvesting

In the dynamic landscape of today's business world, the power of #ai is not exclusive to big players. AI is a game-changer for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) too! Embracing AI can bring efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness to your business. Whether it's automating routine tasks, enhancing customer experiences, or optimizing decision-making, AI offers a myriad of possibilities tailored to the unique needs of SMEs. It's not about the size; it's about the strategic advantage AI brings to businesses of all scales. Check out Yuno AI, you won't be sorry!

Drilling down on #AI Depth - The 31 questions to figure out for every VC. This is an article I wish I had written 1 year earlier but hey, better late than never. At Peak, we have a set of 100 questions along our 4 T's (Team, Thesis, Traction, Timing) to answer before making a decision to invest. Now, let's extend this list for AI ventures and drill down on their AI Depth. Read the full article including the question list here: https://lnkd.in/d_AtBisu Take out the gut feeling and guesstimation around AI and start making your assessment more tangible. Also, a big thank you to my dear colleague Maximilian Serfling for your input. What did I miss?

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Agentic AI is the top trend in this space heading into 2025. There are some massive bets being placed as evidenced by Reflection AI receiving 100 million dollar seed investment from Sequoia Capital. The industry heavyweights all predict a future with tens of millions of Agents performing a myriad of tasks autonomously. So how does one build an agent. Check out the infographic below for a short easy tutorial. Repost if this was useful to you and follow me for more curated AI content. Credit AI Fire

Is the AI market a big bubble set for bursting? And will jumping on the bandwagon, contribute to the burst? This a great video by Sky News and worth a watch, exploring the potential of the AI market being a bubble waiting to pop. It doesn’t matter which camp you sit in when it comes to the AI debate, it won’t take away the fact that AI is here to stay. But what puts the market at risk of becoming a burstable bubble, is companies building AI products for the sake of building AI products. We at Loopin made this mistake, getting caught in the hype of it all, and deviating off track to a degree, early last year. But what changed our thinking, was going back to our core mission and the problem that we solve, looking at AI as not something that we need to build and be part of, but instead, invest in how it makes us better at solving the problems we originally set out to solve for our customers. Loopin aims to understand how people are at work and give them what they want when they need it, across a wide range of people areas. This has and always will be, what we look to achieve. Where AI comes in for us, is helping our customers and users better understand sentiment data, provide digital coaching, give faster access to learning and training materials, personalise the development journey, and give quicker access to information from across a company. This can be used to improve well-being, boost engagement, drive high performance and increase operational efficiencies. Core problems that have been, and will always be there. In my eyes, what puts the market at risk, is too many companies building and deploying AI products for the sake of it and just trying to be part of the 'hype'. What will make the market stronger, is companies and startups sticking to solving their true problems, and augmenting themselves, using an AI application layer to solution for the problems they solve, even more effectively. What are your thoughts? Boom or bust? https://lnkd.in/eEFPBxdt #ai #tech #bubble #people

Important point from Bessemer Venture Partners on commercialization of generative AI. https://lnkd.in/g38Umv6k We can no longer afford to conflate AI-first and AI-enabled companies. For founders, knowing what kind of company you are building is essential for recruiting proper talent, partnering with aligned investors, securing sufficient capital, and deploying a viable business model. AI-first companies require deep AI research acumen, investors willing to take a long view, materially more capital, and potentially less conventional business models than AI-enabled peers. In reality, this distinction is a spectrum, not a binary. Impactful companies will be built with both approaches, and far more will be AI-enabled than AI-first. For AI-first companies, though, we believe the fruit will be worth the labor. Influence over the technology stack from the ground up enables tight control over cost structure, immeasurable product optionality, and greater defensibly relative to AI-enabled companies that defer the exercise of scientific inquiry to those that are AI-first. #AI #aipricing #aimonetization #aicommercialization #pricing

We’re still in the very early stage of the AI cycle, and the potential ahead is enormous. Eric Sheridan from Goldman Sachs explains that AI is in "build mode," and we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of what’s possible. "If you look at every computing cycle, there’s always a product that captures imagination, followed by a build cycle.” For investors and business leaders, this is a moment to have patience. Those who understand the cycle know that transformative technologies require time to fully realize their impact. Companies investing in AI today - particularly those with access to capital, engineering talent, and data - are positioning themselves to lead the next wave of innovation. #ai

While this piece looks at the impact genAI is having on investors specifically, a lot of their learnings are broadly applicable. I found the paragraph below particularly interesting because it makes a call back to a similar sentiment of all companies becoming technology companies. "AI is a value-creation opportunity. AI’s value creation opportunity will only grow as it becomes more powerful and cheaper to deploy. As investment rises and costs decline, expect new applications and AI agents powered by various AI models to emerge. These will pave the way for broader genAI adoption across the consumer and enterprise landscape. Implementing AI across entire portfolios was repeatedly identified as a value creation and stewardship opportunity for investors; at some point, all companies will be considered AI companies."

I just read an interesting article (link in comments below) on TechCrunch that I thought I'd share. It read, in part, that "Gartner released a report suggesting that around a third of generative AI projects in the enterprise will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept phase by year-end 2025. The reasons are many — poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating infrastructure costs and so on. But one of the biggest barriers to generative AI adoption is the unclear business value, per the report.” "Unclear business value." That feels important...especially in light of the venture dollars chAIsing the AI dream (see what I did there?). I'm not saying that AI - and in reality, ML (at least today) - is akin to the previous hype cycle themes that Camber Creek stayed away from. AI/ML (MAIL?) is/will be a fundamental step change for the building blocks of software. But venture investors, and especially angels, should be careful to avoid investing into the hype rather than focusing on the business value. #venturecapital #AI #ML #themoreyouknow