The Best A.I. Startup Opportunities, with venture capitalist Rudina Seseri

How should an A.I. startup find product-market fit? How do some A.I. startups become spectacularly successful? The renowned (and highly technical!) A.I. venture-capital investor Rudina Seseri answers these questions and more in today's episode.

Rudina:

• Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures in Boston.

• Led investments and/or served on the Board of Directors of more than a dozen SaaS startups, many of which were acquired.

• Was named Startup Boston's 2022 "Investor of the Year" amongst many other formal recognitions.

• Is a sought-after keynote speaker on investing in A.I. startups.

• Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

• Holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Today’s episode will be interesting to anyone who’s keen on scaling their impact with A.I., particularly through A.I. startups or investment.

In this episode, Rudina details:

• How data are used to assess venture capital investments.

• What makes particular AI startups so spectacularly successful.

• Her "A.I. Palette" for examining categories of machine learning models and mapping them to categories of training data.

• How Generative AI isn’t a fad, but it is still only a component of the impact that AI more broadly can make.

• The automated systems she has built for staying up to date on all of the most impactful AI developments.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

How to Found and Fund Your Own A.I. Startup, with Dr. Rasmus Rothe

Fresh off the heels of his triumphant AI House Davos debut at the World Economic Forum last week, Dr. Rasmus Rothe is my guest today, discussing how to successfully found your own A.I. startup, attract venture capital and scale up!

Rasmus is a co-Founder of Merantix, the comprehensive ecosystem that finances, incubates and scales A.I. companies, transforming existing industries and spawning new ones. Merantix includes:

• A "venture studio" that builds transformative A.I. startups from the founding team up.

• A venture-capital fund that invests in A.I. startups.

• Merantix Momentum, a consulting partner for A.I. development and operation.

• The Merantix AI Campus, a slick physical location in Berlin that is Europe's largest A.I. co-working hub. It houses over 1000 entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and policymakers.

In addition to Merantix, Rasmus:

• Co-founded and co-leads the German A.I. Association, a role that has him regularly providing policy guidance to Europe’s top politicians.

• Scaled, to 150 million users, a deep-learning powered service that analyzes faces.

• Studied computer science at Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zürich, culminating in a PhD in machine vision.

Today’s episode will be of great interest to anyone interested in commercializing and scaling A.I.

In this episode, Rasmus details:

• What makes a great A.I. entrepreneur.

• How to best raise capital for your own A.I. company.

• How to ensure your A.I. company is well-defended from competitors.

• What the future of work could look like in the coming decades as A.I. and robotics overhaul industry after industry.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.