More than 100 studies citing @Google 's #AlphaFold are being released each month according to the New Scientist. The protein structures and open-source tools previously released by @DeepMind have already accelerated many areas of research.
@Google@DeepMind Interestingly, the way AlphaFold models proteins resemble the way NLP algorithms make sense of sentence structures, as you can see from the chart in the head tweet above.
@Google@DeepMind I invested in a few AI companies over the last couple of years and continue to think that it's key to continue backing infrastructure players like DeepMind was in the early 2010s.
@Google@DeepMind I.e: We need to back more companies that are coming up with their own novel R&D based approaches to solving complex problem ─and not just slap a couple libraries and heuristics on a database.
@Google@DeepMind If you're angel investor, LP or fellow VC general partner with equal strong ideas on the sector, I'm always happy to have a virtual coffee about the topic :)
Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) ─founders' friend or foe?
Would be interesting to see what the experience out there has been on getting investment from a corporation.
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In my limited experience as a VC firm founder and much longer one as a tech community co-founder, I've heard of both horror stories and happy entrepreneurs who found it valuable.
For now, based on CB Insight data, what we can say for sure is that:
💸 The number of deals with CVC participation rose for an eighth consecutive quarter although the funding amount decreased from 2021
At least one immigrant or a child born to first-generation immigrants in the founding team behind 9 out of the UK's top 10 unicorns (companies valued at $1bn or more)
"immigrants are far more likely to be entrepreneurial than people born and brought up in the UK… three times as much in fact."
But sure, let's keep on with divisive rhetoric across Europe 🤦
Just leaving it out there since far right seems set to take over my home country of Italy (that could do with a bit more unicorns than just... one) and as for the UK... I mean, since 2016 it's all been a downhill descent.
When venture capital and deep tech startups meet to solve the global Climate challenge...
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On our side we announced our first official deal as a VC, Silicon Roundabout Ventures! (But we could not release the details just yet 😜 not even to our LP investors for now!!)
and...
I was blown away by the quality of technologies and solutions presented by our selection of Silicon Roundabout (@SiliconLondon ) community startups last night:
Before I started my Startup investment journey I had no clue how to turn my gut feeling and broader market beliefs into a coherent investment strategy. Or at least how to communicate it succinctly.
Then I discovered the importance of coming up w/ a strong Investment Thesis. One that not only I believe capable of actually delivering returns, but that it also fits with my vision of where the tech world is going and the "spacial sauce" I can bring to the VC world.
Below is how I came up with mine over the course of the start of my startup investing between 2020 and 2021: It wasn't easy at first.