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🏆 Award season! I got nominated!!! Women in AI Awards by VentureBeat 😍 Honored to be nominated in the AI Entrepreneur category Peeps keep saying "WHERE are all the women in AI?" HERE they are!! Who else are fabulous nominees? OMG check out this list 👇 Hype women!!! 💕 Follow, connect, and boost them! Bhavani Vangala, VP of Engineering at Onyxes Nicole Königstein, Chief AI Officer, quantitate Jenny Dearing, co-founder + CEO at 1137 Helen Gu, Founder and CEO, at InsightFinder Inc. Dani Grant, co-founder and CEO at Jam.dev Iya Khalil, VP and Head of Data, AI and Genome Sciences at Merk Me! Joan Palmiter Bajorek, CEO at HireClarity.AI Sneha Roy, co-founder & COO at Murf.AI Erin Rapacki, AI Robotics Leader at NVIDIA Kellye Kamp, Founder at Source Kamp Christina Lopes, CEO and Founder at FidoCure Allie K. Miller, Fortune 500 AI Advisor and Angel Investor at Allie K. Miller Inna Tokarev Sela, Founder and CEO at illumex Marguerite deCourcelle, Chief Executive Officer at Blockade Labs Sarika Garg, co-founder & CEO at Cacheflow Shelby Austin, CEO & co-founder at Arteria AI Charlene Putney, COO at Write with LAIKA Romy Rodriguez-Ravines Ph.D., Head of Research and AI at DeNexus Debbie Yu, co-founder and Board member, ISEE Barr Moses, CEO & co-founder at Monte Carlo Fariha Shah, CEO & Founder at Cominty Meghan Verena Joyce, Chief Executive Officer at Duckbill Ruth Poliakine Baruchi, Founder and CEO at MyndYou Angela Hood, Founder & CEO at ThisWay Global Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures Sarah Buchner, CEO & Founder at Trunk Tools Deidre Paknad, co-founder & CEO at Workboard Arina Curtis, CEO and co-founder at DataGPT Valerie Vacante, VP, Solutions Innovation at Dentsu Maryrose Lyons, Founder at Ai institute Sheyda D., co-founder, Chief Technology Officer at ViralMoment Megan Gray, CEO at @Moment.AI Andrea Constantinof PhD, Director, AI & Data Science at OpenText Rehgan Bleile (Avon), co-founder & CEO: AlignAI, Women in Analytics Shelmina Babai Abji, Founder and CEO, ShowYourWorth.ai Alisa Miller, CEO and co-founder of Pluralytics AI at Pluralytics AI Surbhi Rathore, CEO & co-founder at Symbl.ai Nicole Eagan, Chief Strategy Officer & AI Officer at Darktrace Wow, these are amazing Entrepreneurs around the world! What a fabulous day to be nominated alongside them! #WomenInAI #VentureBeat See all the categories and nominations! https://lnkd.in/gdQUjcsf Want more AI and cheerful content? —-—————————— 💸 Subscribe to Clarity AI Newsletter to get the latest AI, career, and money https://buff.ly/45LEW54 🔔 Follow Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek 🔄 Reshare to help your network grow in AI, career, and income

OpenAI’s governance saga might give leaders pause about alternative ways of organizing, but research shows hybrid governance models can be successful—with effective boards to lead them https://lnkd.in/eXzaiZvM #structuredvisualthinking #strategy #strategicthinking #decisionmaking #decisionquality #business #csuite #creativity #marketing #decisionmaking #decisionquality #ai Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Good morning friends! A fantastic recap from the Global Corporate Venturing discussion/webinar last week with some amazing industry leaders. "How to invest as Generative AI startups spread to every industry" Jeff Herbst, founding managing partner of GFT Ventures, Vibhor Rastogi, head of AI Investments at Citi Ventures, Marc d. Paradis vice-president of data strategy at Northwell Holdings, Gaurav Oberoi, chief executive of AI company Lexion.ai were the attendees. A strong statement to kick this off: “This is the biggest tech transformation that we’ve seen in our lifetimes,” Marc d. Paradis Is there still space for non-tech companies to invest in generative AI? Where are the best places for them to place those bets? Here are some of the insights shared: 1. Financial investors should be wary but this is the perfect time for corporates to place bets on generative AI “The new wave is around conversational and data,” says Jeff Herbst. And it is the corporates that have the data — businesses like financial services have mountains of unstructured data. “This is the age of corporates and AI because it’s all about data.” 2. Businesses need to step in quickly to steer generative AI companies Citi Ventures’ Rastogi said early-stage generative AI companies need a steer from corporates to make sure they develop the technology in the right way. “We can really be a design partner for these generative AI companies as they think about taking a technology developed for the consumer world and look to apply it to enterprise use cases." 3. The real money and opportunity is coming from tailoring generative AI “I think the underrated business plan is now we have to actually make [generative AI] useful in specific use cases and specific verticals,” said Jeff Herbst 4. Companies will need to guard their data If data is the essential ingredient in generative AI, it is crucial for companies to safeguard. “Your data is your code. I wouldn’t let anybody steal my code, so ’m not going to let anyone steal my data,” says Herbst. 5. Yes, IP rights are going to be a problem “There’s a whole host of issues and the chatter [around IP rights} is starting. I think a year from now, everyone’s going to be talking about this,” said Herbst. Rastogi said technology companies may increasingly be asked to provide guarantees to users of their technology to make sure they don’t face any intellectual property disputes. The future? “The world is going to run on data and pattern recognition on data and AI,” said Herbst. “I think from a financial and strategic standpoint, the biggest opportunities are still yet to come.” Tune into the webinar replay and listen to the full discussion. Global Corporate Venturing GFT Ventures Jeff Herbst Jay Eum Jenny Hamin Park Jocelyne Cooke https://lnkd.in/gVHmzA8m

Must-read report from Andreessen Horowitz: "Over the past couple of months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders,2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI. We were shocked by how significantly the resourcing and attitudes toward genAI had changed over the last 6 months. Though these leaders still have some reservations about deploying generative AI, they’re also nearly tripling their budgets, expanding the number of use cases that are deployed on smaller open-source models, and transitioning more workloads from early experimentation into production." The second part is targeted at startups and We are pleased to see that CognentAI's new platform is right in the sweet spot! This is a massive opportunity for founders. We believe that AI startups who 1) build for enterprises’ AI-centric strategic initiatives while anticipating their pain points, and 2) move from a services-heavy approach to building scalable products will capture this new wave of investment and carve out significant market share.

The talent landscape is increasingly unpredictable, particularly within volatile industries like tech and life sciences. Securing leadership roles is key to navigating the industry effectively. Fortunately, insights like these offer invaluable information on the latest industry trends. To truly thrive, businesses must adeptly harness this data and make more informed decisions.

Super interesting article from Reuters on the fight to attract AI talent in Europe. If there's already high demand and lack of talent for the tech industry, how will sectors such as e-commerce be able to compete? More students are taking up courses on AI and machine learning but it will be a while before we see that influx of talent out in the market. Going back to your question Jay Thandi, should brands start to think ahead and up skill in house teams on how to use Generative AI?

HumanX, a new forum for AI leadership created by the founders of HLTH and Money20/20, announced its official launch today alongside its inaugural conference set for March 2025 in Las Vegas. With over $6 million in funding led by Primary Venture Partners and supported by Foundation Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, HumanX aims to address AI's complexities with actionable solutions for global industries. The conference will unite C-suite leaders, policymakers, and AI practitioners to explore AI advancements and challenges. Brad Smith of Microsoft will join the HumanX board, underscoring the strategic alignment between industry giants. HumanX will also introduce a Data-Driven Advisory Service and advocate for ethical AI practices through its nonprofit wing, promising a comprehensive approach to integrating AI across sectors. https://lnkd.in/e2RMP5Kt #HumanX #AI #TechLeadership #InnovationConference #PrimaryVenturePartners #FoundationCapital #AndreessenHorowitz

Generative AI technologies are being suffused into a host of software applications aimed at businesses and consumers alike, and the financial results of all that investment are starting to show up. That’s good news for the plethora of startups building in the fast-expanding space. A close-reading of Alphabet and Microsoft’s 3rd quarter results shows that new AI tech is helping some of the world’s biggest companies grow their revenues.

Who are the diverse founders in Generative AI? Harlem Capital’s Asian, Black, Latino & Women Founders in Generative AI report analyzes the 138 Asian, Black, Latino & Women Startups that have raised $1M+ in Generative AI from 2012 to 2023. Insights from our report👇 1. Asian men make up 45% of total diverse founders in Generative AI, but Asian women have a higher median raise of $10M. 2. Within the top 8 sub-industries among diverse founded Generative AI companies, the majority fall within Developer Tools. The median raised within Healthcare and FinTech is the largest among sectors. 3. Black and Hispanic founded companies were largely within 5 sub-industries, the largest being Enterprise SaaS and Media & Entertainment, respectively. Asian founded companies raised the most in Developer Tools. 4. Among diverse founders in Generative AI, the largest amount of capital raised by women is in the Developer Tools sub-industry while for men it is in Enterprise SaaS. 5. Among the 19 states represented, a majority of diverse founded Generative AI companies are headquartered in CA & NY. 6. Majority of companies are still in early stages with 41% having a latest funding round at the Seed stage.  7. Most diverse founded Generative AI companies had their most recent fundraising round in 2022 and 2023. Majority of recent rounds were by Asian founders and 70% were from male founders. 8. Among diverse founded Generative AI companies, $1.6B was most recently raised in 2023, of which 63% was from female founders and 45% was from Asian founders. At Harlem Capital, we are proud investors in 3 Generative AI companies - Chatdesk (founded by Andrew Olaleye & Aneto Okonkwo), Superstorm (founded by Edward Lando & Emil Pitkin) and DocDraft (founded by Anish Dalal and Taher Hassonjee). The 3 companies have raised a total $14.8M in capital. We’re excited to celebrate their success as they pioneer pathways for many others. Huge thank you to our very own Gabby Cazeau (Partner) for creating this report with help from Nina Prabhu (Summer Intern 2023). If we missed anyone, please fill out this form: https://lnkd.in/exJfzS5h