Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.
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The rise of AI in the recent past has exposed some interesting use-cases across industries. One such example is that of Wilmington, Mass.-based software and robotics maker Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM), who has successfully leveraged AI to build an offering of Warehouses-as-a-Service.
>>>During this week’s roundtable, we had Gus Tai, Investor, Board Member and Retired General Partner at Trinity Ventures discuss ideas and opportunities in Education with an AI-augmented framework.
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As for our entrepreneur pitch, Naveen Chandupatla from Atlanta, Georgia, pitched HiringKit, a resume-screening product.
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Sramana Mitra: Yes, definitely. I also want to ask you about your current strategy of investing in AI companies. It sounds like this is a team that you really liked; and you invested in that team and the concept. How often do you do that? Do you invest in concepts much?
>>>Sramana Mitra: So, tell me, what AI companies have you invested in? Let’s do a few case studies and as you are describing them, talk about why you have invested in those companies.
>>>Veeva’s (NYSE: VEEV) recently announced quarterly results continue to impress the market. Veeva is adding AI capabilities to several of its offerings as it continues to successfully migrate its customers over to Vault CRM.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Very good. Just as ChatGPT broke into the mainstream consciousness and really put AI at the center of discussions, The first wave of startups that came out of that euphoria are mainly wrappers. To your point, wrappers don’t have a deep moat in terms of being an AI centric company that is really going to be able to take advantage of AI and build significant defensive advantage to in enterprise applications.
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