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Sajith Pai
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Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
Early-stage at our core - a growing family: VHxLFxGC I am thrilled to welcome Venture Highway to our General Catalyst family, bolstering our team with one of India’s most well-known early-stage firms to Venture Beyond. In Venture Highway, we found a mission-aligned partner to intensify our work and amplify the ambitions of India's founders. Only a few months ago, we at La Famiglia took the same step because I fundamentally believe that an entrepreneurial journey is defined by a vision that may just be a faint idea at the outset and that one gets to will into being. My idea was, and is, to turbocharge our thesis of creating meaningful change and strengthening European resilience. As we think about European resilience, the collaboration between Europe and India will be critical, especially in areas like manufacturing and supply chain. Thinking about Europe‘s core industries such as Automotive, Defense, and Energy, a strong alliance between the world’s largest global democracies will be key to ensuring long-term success. The merger with Venture Highway is an important milestone in our global ambitions. I am particularly thrilled to now officially be partnering with Neeraj and Priya as mission-aligned entrepreneurial investors in that journey. "Combining our US seed team with Venture Highway in India and La Famiglia in Europe, we are committing deeply to becoming great at supporting the world's best founders at the earliest stages." GC’s CEO, Hemant Taneja. We’re energized to be on this journey to drive enduring transformation together.
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Russell Dalgleish
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J Michael Heynen
The generative #world #order: #AI, #geopolitics, and #power by Jared Cohen, George Lee, Lucas Greenbaum, Frank Long, and Wilson Shirley Executive summary The emergence of generative AI marks a #transformational moment that will influence the course of markets and alter the balance of power among nations. Increasingly capable machine #intelligence will profoundly impact matters of growth, productivity, competition, national defense and human culture. In this swiftly evolving arena, corporate and political #leaders alike are seeking to decipher the implications of this abrupt and powerful wave of #innovation, exploring new opportunities and navigating new risks. The world is facing a narrow window of opportunity – what we call the inter-AI years – to shape the AI-enabled future. This window will be brief – a few years at most – then views and strategies will harden; norms, values, standards will be embedded within the technology; and the costs of changing course will rise. While AI-enabled technology will continue to progress, decisions made today will determine what is possible in the #future. A generative world order will emerge. The US and China are the world’s top AI competitors, but they are also the top AI collaborators. However, in generative AI, most of the cutting-edge innovations today are coming from the US, and China faces an uphill in training LLMs, for now. This technology competition will see geopolitical priorities drive economic decision-making, including through export controls, sanctions, tariffs, industrial policy, investment screening, and other measures deployed to increase absolute and relative advantages. Geopolitical swing states will have a meaningful role in shaping the AI-enabled future. In particular, UK, the UAE, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, and India are the key players in the category. Moreover, these players may form innovation blocs, creating alliances and partnerships with more dominant states or cooperating with each other to pursue common goals. The technology’s development will shape its geopolitical effects. New capabilities will lead to novel use cases and broader impact. We expect generative AI models to become increasingly multimodal, seamlessly reckoning with text, images, audio and video. Focus will also shift toward performance and value engineering, making this technology less costly and more sustainable. The incorporation of persistent memory will enable better long-range planning and true agentic scenarios. Perhaps the timeliest question is whether generative AI will follow a scale up trajectory, with models increasing in size and likely dominated by large commercial enterprises, or whether they will scale down, favoring a broader set of providers and open source approaches. ... https://lnkd.in/etDEngak
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Gyan Barik MAICD
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Dennis Price
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Anna Robertson
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Tazin Shadid
Partnering for a Healthier Future: AmarLab and Spreeha Foundation Navigating the healthcare landscape in Bangladesh is fraught with challenges, from limited medical resources to the prevalence of unregulated diagnostic centers. With only 7 doctors for every 10,000 people, patients often face rushed consultations and delayed diagnoses, exacerbating health issues and financial burdens. In this context, AmarLab and Spreeha Foundation are joining forces to bring much-needed innovation to healthcare through the Sneho Urgent Care Centers. With seven centers already in operation, this initiative aims to establish a network of 100 hyper-local urgent care centers, ensuring accessible and high-quality healthcare for underserved communities. Since 2013, Spreeha has been at the forefront of community healthcare, providing vital services to slum populations. Now, with AmarLab as the exclusive technology and diagnostic service provider, this partnership will leverage advanced logistics and data-driven solutions to enhance care delivery. As highlighted in a recent Global Washington article, these centers will be staffed by local health professionals, ensuring quality care while reducing the strain on tertiary hospitals. By promoting proactive healthcare and utilizing technology for efficient service delivery, we aim to reduce costs and improve health outcomes for millions. Together, AmarLab and Spreeha are committed to creating a sustainable healthcare model that empowers communities and transforms lives. This partnership not only addresses immediate healthcare needs but also builds a foundation for a healthier future. #HealthcareInnovation #UrgentCare #AccessibleHealthcare #Partnership #AmarLab #SpreehaFoundation #SnehoUrgentCare https://lnkd.in/gkrs5GPC
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Shantanu Ghosh
The “chiriakhana (zoo)” of angel investors The Angel investor ecosystem WA is abuzz with debates about Vinod Khosla’s recently made statement that 90% investors add no value to their investment and 70% detract value. They inspired the title from the legendary director Satyajit Ray’s old thriller movie about the idiosyncrasies of a highly heterogeneous group of people in one contained colony… aka the angel investment ecosystem. Here’s my take on the different types of Angel investors. Any resemblance to anyone specific in my angel networks is, of course, purely coincidental if not totally unintended. 1. The “Divine angels”- they are the God’s gift to founders - those who strike up a close relationship with founders and get involved on a regular basis from making connects, to brainstorming ideas to being an agony aunt/uncle. They are a rare breed. 2. The “main bhi CEO”s- these are the ultra intrusive folks who gun for 100% credit of success, 0% of failure with 5 % of effort. Founders suffer them due to SHA constraints before being compelled to rudely refuse the persistent advances. 3. The “impact players” - these investors only get deeply active during critical events like fund raises, big business pivots etc. Founders may dislike them when challenged but sometimes grudgingly respect them post facto. 4. The “main bhi angel”s - they are typically the victims of peer pressure in funding someone familiar with a “change the world” story, usually having to write those initial (mis)adventures off and retreating into inactivity before falling again for FOMO. Failed founders, if contactable, have to deal with their “how could this happen” lament. 5. The “equal opportunity” investors - blessed with large corpuses they invest in anything that sounds interesting … law of averages inevitably catches up with them. Founders love them as much for the money as for their indifference. 6. The “probability punters” - they follow their own versions of optimum portfolio size aspiring to improve the abysmal probability of success by leveraging multiple levels of curation through experts and platform processes in addition to their own instincts. They may wear the hats of “impact players” and “divine angels” for a few of their investments. 7. The “Shashi Tharoor” investors - typically tenured large company professionals who have ill adjusted to the start up ecosystem…they attempt to apply mega businesses idioms to fledging startups leading to incredulous founders and co investors. 8. The “consultant uninvestor” - they love the sound of their own voices and on angel platforms typically ask questions which are longer than the answers and, unsurprisingly, find very few ventures worthy of investing in. Many angel investors are like chameleons.. they can change their colours for different founders. But all of them are convinced that they are at least always in the 30% and on a good day in the 10% as per Mr. Khosla’s definitions. We are all exceptions.
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