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👻 CSMs: How many times have you been "ghosted" by a client this year? ❓ Have you tried sending a video to your executive point of contact? 💡 Research shoes that 59% of senior executives report they’d rather watch a video than read text. Furthermore, CSMs can expect a 8x higher open-to-reply ratio with video messages. 🎇 That's why Gemma Cipriani-Espineira, other CS Angels, and I have invested in Sendspark! We believe in the mission that Bethany Stachenfeld & ✨ Brandon Escalante are driving to bring personalized AI videos at scale to the market. Read more about the investment below and visit Sendspark.com to try it for free. https://lnkd.in/gMU5bvv6

"I'm deep in #AI and I believe in the next 10 years all #software will become intelligent. So, we won't see companies whose software doesn't have intelligence embedded succeed." Cristina Fonseca, Indico Capital Partners In this #4YFN24 Opening Session, founders & leaders make sure you understand the depth of hashtag #innovation over the last 🔟 years and are ahead of the game on the incredible opportunities that await us in the future 🔮 Watch the full session on-demand 👉 https://lnkd.in/eY_Su5XY

"Good intent, bad outcome." Jason Calacanis, This Week in Startups Common maintenance methods are destroying infrastructure. We don't need to build new assets — we need to sustain better. Watch the full episode with Jake Loosararian: https://lnkd.in/eamGEYk3 #Software #AI #PredictiveMaintenance

Excited to finally announce BREVIAN's seed round! For the most critical questions, business users have historically been forced to either spend heaps of time manually searching for answers or rely on someone technical as a conduit to the data. Those days are long gone, as Brevian now puts the power of production-grade AI agents into the hands of every business team. Users can create agents to automate specific tasks, analyze specific data sources, and train these agents to improve over time. Brevian does all of this while leveraging security guardrails, a concept made popular by Jason Chan and Travis McPeak at Netflix (also both investors). Given their unmatched experience working with enterprises at the intersection of data, ML, and trust and safety, we at Felicis couldn't be more excited to partner with Vinay Wagh, Ram Swaminathan, and the Brevian team as they make secure and customizable agents more accessible. https://lnkd.in/g5tDXwru

❓ "How can we transform vast amounts of raw data into business-related decisions that can make a difference?" 📊 This was the question Maximilian Hahnenkamp and Felix Beissel pondered when they recognized a common problem faced by companies of various sizes: producing large amounts of #data without the #time or #tools to convert them into #insights for predicting market trends, streamlining operations, and delivering exceptional products and services to customers. 🚀 Thus, Scavenger AI was born, a startup we were delighted to welcome into batch VIII of our #acceleration program and which has now secured €1.1M in pre-seed #funding. Scavenger's software cleanses the #data, automatically analyses it statistically based on the user's questions, and presents the analysis in simple language, crucially, within #seconds. 🗣️ We caught up with Maximilian and Felix again to hear about the #journey that led them to create Scavenger and the #goals they aim to achieve. Watch the interview in our new video and subscribe to our #newsletter by clicking the links in the first comment and keep following us to stay updated with the #B4i world ⏬

🚀 Exciting news from BlueRider.Software ! 🚀 Let's go Tomasz Roszko ! Looking forward to hearing Tomasz's insights on the competition between early-stage AI startups and LLMs in specific verticals—it's like getting insider knowledge on our own AI journey. Best of luck to Tomek at the conference! 🌟 #BlueriderSoftware #AIInnovation #TrueGlobalVenturesConference #AICompetition 🤖💡 P.S. - Couldn't miss this even if it's 01:00 at night! The world of AI never sleeps, and neither do we! 🌙🌍 #LateNightInnovation 🚀

Within the domain of small and medium-sized businesses, there is a prevailing inclination to draw inspiration and guidance from established corporate models that have shown success. The OpenAI episode stands as a poignant reminder that the complexities of human interaction and alignment surpass the influence of any artificial, professionally crafted corporate framework. While organizational structures are vital as a foundation for success, it is crucial to acknowledge that long-term success is contingent on individuals prioritizing the success of all stakeholders. #smallbusiness #familybusiness #successionplanning #openai #humaninteraction #alignment #organizationalculture #stakeholders #businessadvisory https://lnkd.in/ebzKnfE9

AIQCon is happening next week! We only have a few left so get your ticket now! "THE DOLLARS AND CENTS BEHIND THE AI VC BOOM" Natasha Mascarenhas from The Information will be moderating a panel of leading VCs who have backed the top AI companies and understand the correction within the boom, flight to quality and what happens when OpenAI eats your lunch; how founders should think about giving big tech a spot on their cap tables, and generally how to invest at the speed of innovation right now. Panelists include: Oana O., SignalFire James Cham, Bloomberg Beta Erica Brescia, Redpoint Eric Carlborg, Lobby Capital https://lnkd.in/gxTzZSXR Use code "KolenaFriend40" to save 40%!

If you've been a leader in a startup, you've likely seen your fair share of dirty data. Band-aids, workarounds, inconsistencies, unscalable, and generally no good, very bad, hard to reconcile data. It makes everything exponentially slower, unnecessarily complicated, and difficult. Time machine back to the earliest stage of your startup and think back to the first time the decision was made for a cheap, quick, or rapidly deployed solution. Then the next... Then the next... ...and so on until you're in a dirty data quagmire. It's so very tempting to think of immediate turnaround, fast movement, and easy data solutions early on, but don't hobble both knees before you can run.

Hampton, a private community for startup founders, polled 100+ founders on how they’re using AI within their businesses and how they see it impacting hiring, roles etc now and in future. This slide from the report showed which tools they are using most. Any surprises?