'AI' Tag
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Martyrdom in the age of AI
February 24, 2024I followed with fascination the recent parliamentary elections in Pakistan this month. Candidates backed by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, won 99 seats, the most of any party. The strong showing in and of itself was not necessarily a surprise. Khan, a former cricket star turned Islamist politician with a significant grassroots following, […]
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AI Frameworks infographic
November 14, 2018Although I am the proud investor in one promising AI startup in Japan already, most of my deal flow involving innovation in AI is still coming from Europe nowadays, most predominantly from France. France’s prowess in AI might be one of the best kept secrets in innovation these days globally. As I find myself explaining […]
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Japan Tech Leaders Spring 2018 Winners
April 25, 2018Congratulations to all the AI and blockchain entrepreneurs selected for Japan’s prestigious Tech Leaders Summit which took place earlier this month in Tokyo ! Arianee Dablock eToro Platform.sh Re:Infer Snippet Snips Wirex Below is the full infographic of all startup finalists chosen by corporate Japan for Japan Industry 5.0. It was interesting to see that […]
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Japan’s prestigious Tech Leaders Summit returns
March 20, 2018Japan’s prestigious Tech Leaders Summit returns on April 6 in Tokyo. The JTL Summit is an invite-only event for internationally-minded Japanese corporates looking for foreign startups. The Japanese corporates present have expressly declared an interest in meeting innovative global startups for partnership or acquisition potential. The themes tend to center on deep tech innovations — […]
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Japanese AI investors coming to Europe
February 15, 2018Our VC friends behind Japan’s AI Tech Leaders Summit will return next week for another mini-European scouting tour. They’re looking for investment opportunities in advanced technology areas such as deep learning, machine learning, robotics, and RPA in particular. There remains some space open at the informal meetups as follows [updated]: London: fully booked Berlin: fully […]
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Why Europe should be on Japan’s corporate innovation agendas
January 21, 2018[This post paraphrases an interview I gave last week to Japan’s ITmedia group. The original interview is here.] Over the past decade Europe has witnessed such a dramatic transformation in innovation and entrepreneurship that I submit that the region now represents one of the most compelling areas of the world for investment from Japan. This […]
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VC’s squirrels this year
January 16, 2018The Chairman of one my portfolio companies shared this with me the other day. The best jokes are those that touch closest to the truth, and this one is no exception.
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Five takeaways from Japan’s AI Tech Leaders Summit
August 26, 2017Some of the Asia’s leading experts in artificial intelligence mingled yesterday with a small group of corporate acquirers, startups, and investors at the first ever Japan AI Summit. Here are my five takeaways from the interactions: 5. The sovereign gap is widening In advanced AI research, the U.S. still has the lead, but China has […]
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Yet another signal of how far France’s startup ecosystem has come
August 17, 2017I recall how when I first moved permanently to Paris over 16 years ago, finding people in the office during the month of August was highly unusual. It seemed that after the long weekend of July 14th, one couldn’t count on scheduling a meeting again before September 1st. This shutdown extended to the startup sector […]
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A day without AI is like a day without wine
January 23, 2017As I mentioned in my predictions post, I believe 2017 will be a breakout year for deployment of Artificial Intelligence. By this I mean that AI companies will start to master the processes of expectation management and social engineering in order to bring AI across the chasm of consumer perception. Several VCs smarter than I […]