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€10tn sits in German private capital. Almost none of it flows to long-term startup growth.
Investors still call venture too risky, too hard to regulate, and weaker than buyout. Earlybird & 23 other VCs published the data that busts all three myths.
Recap from the GVGF Forum 👇
Investors still call venture too risky, too hard to regulate, and weaker than buyout. Earlybird & 23 other VCs published the data that busts all three myths.
Recap from the GVGF Forum 👇
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The first-ever Gradient Descending Summit has begun at Beaverbrook.
After a year of Gradient Descending roundtables, today expands the series into a deeper discussion on where AI is heading, and what it takes to build enduring companies as the technology continues to evolve.
al Partner at Earlybird, opened the day by welcoming our guests and setting the scene for the conversations ahead, while also recognising the partners supporting this year’s Summit.
More from the Summit throughout the day.
Cc: @stripe, @NotionHQ, @deel, @HSBCInnovation
After a year of Gradient Descending roundtables, today expands the series into a deeper discussion on where AI is heading, and what it takes to build enduring companies as the technology continues to evolve.
al Partner at Earlybird, opened the day by welcoming our guests and setting the scene for the conversations ahead, while also recognising the partners supporting this year’s Summit.
More from the Summit throughout the day.
Cc: @stripe, @NotionHQ, @deel, @HSBCInnovation
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@OpenAIi@coherec@AkashBajwa96 actually scale?
Anjor Kanekar, Kevin Hillier, and Boaz Francis took on that tension in a discussion on forward deployed engineering, from deeply tailored customer implementations to repeatable software.
The conversation explored where customization creates valuable product insigimit scalability, and how teams can turn hands-on customer work into something that compounds across the product.
Anjor Kanekar, Kevin Hillier, and Boaz Francis took on that tension in a discussion on forward deployed engineering, from deeply tailored customer implementations to repeatable software.
The conversation explored where customization creates valuable product insigimit scalability, and how teams can turn hands-on customer work into something that compounds across the product.
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@OpenAIh@coheret@AkashBajwa96of software, and pricing models will have to evolve with it.
In his keynote, Mayank Pant (@stripe) explored one of the b@stripechallenges facing AI companies: monetization. While AI companies are reaching revenue milestones three times faster than traditional SaaS companies, unts, margin pressures, and rapidly evolving products are making pricing increasingly complex.
To address these challenges, he introduced a five-step pricing framework: define the value your product delivers, select a charge metric that reflects that value, choose the right pricing model, introduce safeguards for customers, and continuously adapt pricing as the product evolves.
Together, these steps reinforce the idea that pricing should be treated as an evolving part of the product, with flexible infrastructure that allows companies to test, learn, and scale sustainably.
And with that, our stage programme from the first ever GD Summit comes to a close. Thank you to everyone who shared their perspectives and made today's conversations so engaging. We'll be sharing more highlights and takeaways from the Summit soon!
In his keynote, Mayank Pant (@stripe) explored one of the b@stripechallenges facing AI companies: monetization. While AI companies are reaching revenue milestones three times faster than traditional SaaS companies, unts, margin pressures, and rapidly evolving products are making pricing increasingly complex.
To address these challenges, he introduced a five-step pricing framework: define the value your product delivers, select a charge metric that reflects that value, choose the right pricing model, introduce safeguards for customers, and continuously adapt pricing as the product evolves.
Together, these steps reinforce the idea that pricing should be treated as an evolving part of the product, with flexible infrastructure that allows companies to test, learn, and scale sustainably.
And with that, our stage programme from the first ever GD Summit comes to a close. Thank you to everyone who shared their perspectives and made today's conversations so engaging. We'll be sharing more highlights and takeaways from the Summit soon!
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From AI agent security and AI-driven sales to industrial robotics and inference economics.
October's Gradient Descending sessions took us to Turin, Berlin, Zurich, and London to explore what it takes to make technology work at scale.
Our latest Perspectives recap: go.earlybird.com/zNYeuth8Wc
October's Gradient Descending sessions took us to Turin, Berlin, Zurich, and London to explore what it takes to make technology work at scale.
Our latest Perspectives recap: go.earlybird.com/zNYeuth8Wc
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Go team @obligatecom!
oTFY is now live on @Morpho
Investors can use trade finance yield as collateral for liquidity, while keeping exposure to real commodity shipments.
Built with @TradeflowM (financing), @redstone_defi (pricing) & @RockawayX (risk).
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Earlybird VC retweeted
oTFY is now live on @Morpho
Investors can use trade finance yield as collateral for liquidity, while keeping exposure to real commodity shipments.
Built with @TradeflowM (financing), @redstone_defi (pricing) & @RockawayX (risk).
Investors can use trade finance yield as collateral for liquidity, while keeping exposure to real commodity shipments.
Built with @TradeflowM (financing), @redstone_defi (pricing) & @RockawayX (risk).
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For frontline work, hiring is only half the job.
Firstwork (@firstworkhr) is building the operating layer that turns ‘hired’ into ‘ready to work’ across compliance, onboarding and everything in between. We're proud to be backing Vardhan, Shubham, and the entire team on that re backing Firstwork’ & more coverage below.
Firstwork (@firstworkhr) is building the operating layer that turns ‘hired’ into ‘ready to work’ across compliance, onboarding and everything in between. We're proud to be backing Vardhan, Shubham, and the entire team on that re backing Firstwork’ & more coverage below.
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Earlybird VC retweeted
A couple of weeks ago we hosted @FactoryAI for a roundtable on the future of software engineering.
One of the most impressive features Factory has is it's Missions offering - up to 22 days (!) of long-horizon coding agents working on large codebase refactoring as one example. Missions and their harness.
One of the most impressive features Factory has is it's Missions offering - up to 22 days (!) of long-horizon coding agents working on large codebase refactoring as one example. Missions and their harness.
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AI for VC Fund Operations, put to work.
Three days in Berlin with real fund-ops challenges. Teams working across reporting, deal flow, portfolio monitoring and institutional knowledge with workshops, build sprints and plenty of comparing notes along the way.
Thank you to ed and to our partners!
Three days in Berlin with real fund-ops challenges. Teams working across reporting, deal flow, portfolio monitoring and institutional knowledge with workshops, build sprints and plenty of comparing notes along the way.
Thank you to ed and to our partners!
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Europe needs to try more AI in its factories.
In our latest Founder Spotlight, Siddharth Khullar, founder & CEO of @ArisMachina, joined us to talk about industrial AI, getting customers on board, and hiring people for hard problems.
A look inside the conversation with @sidk_
In our latest Founder Spotlight, Siddharth Khullar, founder & CEO of @ArisMachina, joined us to talk about industrial AI, getting customers on board, and hiring people for hard problems.
A look inside the conversation with @sidk_
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The demo is where the easy story ends.
September at Gradient Descending moved from Barcelona to Munich to London, with discussions on what production AI actually needs once the demo is over.
Check out our full recap here: go.earlybird.com/PvNjwY4h3U
September at Gradient Descending moved from Barcelona to Munich to London, with discussions on what production AI actually needs once the demo is over.
Check out our full recap here: go.earlybird.com/PvNjwY4h3U
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finmid (@wearefinmid) raised a €17m Series A extension and launched two major products with Bolt and Skroutz.
The bigger story: platforms are becoming the place where business financing actually happens. From fleet vehicles to merchant loans, the team is building the t.
All in since Day One!
The bigger story: platforms are becoming the place where business financing actually happens. From fleet vehicles to merchant loans, the team is building the t.
All in since Day One!
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Our portfolio company @MarvelFusion just spun out Caelora, a wholly owned subsidiary that will commercialize high-energy laser systems. The systems are designed for continuous, industrial-grade operation.
Read more on the thread
Read more on the thread
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