Roundtable Recap: December 5 – AI Investment Thesis with Mo Islam, Threshold Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Mo Islam, Partner at Threshold Ventures discussing his firm’s AI investment thesis. We had an excellent discussion on AI-enabled drug discovery, AI-enabled medical imaging, etc.

DAS Med Hub

As for our entrepreneur pitches, Divine Sebukpor from Chandigarh, India, pitched DAS Med Hub, a platform for pre-diagnosis of symptoms.

CO2 Trust

Then Misty Burris from Portland, Oregon, pitched CO2 Trust, a carbon trading marketplace.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Three Co-founders Bootstrapped with a Paycheck, Now at Over $50M Revenue: Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of Responsive (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Until that million dollar point where you brought in institutional capital, did the three of you fund the company through your own savings?

Cloud Stocks: Salesforce Cashes in on the Agentic AI Market

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Three Co-founders Bootstrapped with a Paycheck, Now at Over $50M Revenue: Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of Responsive (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Okay, got it. You just took me through a bit of the pricing and ROI analysis. What did you price your product at?

Three Co-founders Bootstrapped with a Paycheck, Now at Over $50M Revenue: Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of Responsive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, you got to prototype in a bootstrapping with a paycheck mode. Your two co-founders who were doing the design and implementation work, stayed on working in a bootstrapping with a paycheck mode. You quit and went full-time. Then you got to a release in June of the next year, in six months. Which side did you decide to build the product for? Was it the buy side?

Ganesh Shankar: No, the sell side.

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Workday’s Evisort Acquisition

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Three Co-founders Bootstrapped with a Paycheck, Now at Over $50M Revenue: Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of Responsive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Got it. Let’s go back to when you started the company. What was the premise of the company? What were you going to do?