Brighteye Ventures

📣 AI for L&D and People Leaders – please join 📣 We kicked off our “bootcamp-like” series of online working events on AI for L&D and People leaders last week. In Session 1️⃣ we looked at Unlocking AI's potential in L&D. You are invited to join our remaining 3 online sessions to understand and get practical learnings from our experts on how to integrate and make the most of AI within your organisation’s Learning & Development function. ‼️ Coming up this week - Thursday 3 April: Session 2️⃣ Exploring AI-powered solutions, with specific use case studies and proving return on investment. We'll hear from: 🎙️ Lavinia Mehedințu, co-founder of Offbeat, one of Europe's leading voices on L&D practice 🎙️ Rita Azevedo, reimagining learning at Sana and formerly Head of Learning at Klarna 🎙️ Rafael Guper, co-founder of UJJI AI ✨ 🎙️ Rhys Spence, Head of Platform and Research at Brighteye Coming up later in April: Session 3️⃣ Building an AI-powered L&D Strategy - 15 April Session 4️⃣ Gaining executive buy-in for your strategy - 22 April 🔗 Details of Learning Objectives, Speakers, expected Key Takeaways – and Registration to all Sessions on the Calendar here: https://lnkd.in/dgkPq2ec 🔗

🎓 Our Annual Minerva Visit 🎓 Getting a March 🍃 visit from a group of Minerva University students has become a tradition at our Notting Hill office! Isabella Vahdati & Hege Tollerud spent the morning talking to the cohort from the University’s Graduate Program in Decision Analysing about working in VC and backing companies that help people learn, work and thrive. Thanks for bringing your students once again, Geneva Stein, Ph.D. ☀️

🥐 Female VC Breakfast - Berlin 🥐 Next week, our Associate Isabella Vahdati will be in Berlin, where she's partnering with Alena Redeker at Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund on Co-hosting a Female VC Breakfast. We’ve hosted similar events in London, with a great turnout and 💥 energy. Will we see you in Berlin 🇩🇪 on 3 April? Please find full details and register interest here: ▶️ https://lu.ma/tgzciptr

🐝 AI for Enhanced Productivity 🐝 "AI for Enhanced Productivity - Learning in the Flow of Work" is the third and final article in our Series on AI for Corporates. It covers the evolution of productivity in corporate environments, divided in: 1️⃣ How is AI transforming productivity in Corporates? 2️⃣ Market map and analysis of opportunities 🔗 You can access it in full now, here: https://lnkd.in/dhYiqdsJ In the past few weeks, we have also published articles on AI for Hiring and AI for Training (links in comments 👇🏽), completing the full Series.

🔖 AI for Corporates - Productivity Article is live 🔖 The third and final article in our Series on AI for Corporates is out 💥 NOW! We are super happy to share the "AI for Enhanced Productivity - Learning in the Flow of Work" piece. It covers the evolution of productivity in corporate environments, divided in: 1️⃣ How is AI transforming productivity in Corporates? 2️⃣ Market map and analysis of opportunities – please check it all out here: https://lnkd.in/dhYiqdsJ In the past few weeks, we have published articles on AI for Hiring and AI for Training (links in comments ⬇), completing the full Series.

🎊 AI for Corporates Celebration 🎊 In the past few weeks, we have published articles on AI for Hiring and AI for Training (links in comments ⬇) in our 3-piece Series on AI for Corporates. ‼️ The final paper is due out tomorrow, Friday 21 March – please check back in to not miss it With a lot of exciting content to share and discuss, we took the opportunity to invite a great group of people to a little launch event at our London 🏡 office last night. We enjoyed an evening of exploring 🔍 some of the findings, hearing from experts in the space – thanks Olivia Elf from Sana and Ian Walker from Salesforce & Benoit Wirz and Rhys Spence from the Brighteye team! We love it when the office is buzzing, thanks to all who joined us!

🧩 Learning Product Evening 🧩 Full attention 💡 was turned to building learning products at our London office last night, as we teamed up with Matt Walton at Product for Learning to host an evening of sharing knowledge and experience in this space. Thanks to Geoff Stead (ex Babbel & MyTutor.co.uk) for an inspiring talk about creating healthy habits and product-led growth for learning – and to the 20+ attendees for excellent questions and buzzing ✨ energy.

🎧 Podcast: Investor Updates – how to craft the best! 🎧 Why keep investors posted on your latest progress? And how? Don't miss the latest episode of our Sidekick podcast, hosted 🎙️ by Partner David Guérin, where he addresses how top-performing 🥇 Founders don't just send investor updates - they proactively use them to build trust with existing and new investors by communicating strategic assets that help maintain transparency, build trust, and unlock 🔓 and secure future funding. David shares: 🔹 How to structure investor updates - making them effective yet simple 🔹 Two investor update templates – monthly and quarterly 📻 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dPvESNPt

📂 AI for Corporates Series – Part 2: For Training 📂 The second of our three 3️⃣-part series focused on the use of AI in Corporate environments is out! In “AI for Training - the Evolution of Corporate Training,” we explore 5 ways in which AI is transforming corporate training, examining how companies use AI to: 📌 Build personalised learning paths 📌 Automate content creation 📌 Track performance in real-time 📌 Reduce training costs 📌 Identify future skill gaps We have comments from a selection of experts in the area, including Lavinia Mehedințu at Offbeat, Claudio Erba at Docebo, Nicolò Santin at Gamindo and Hannah Seal, Partner at Index Ventures – who said: ❝AI now handles 80% of routine work, allowing employees to focus on the remaining 20% - the high-value, strategic tasks that require human insight.❞ 🗺️ A Market Map in a living “draft” version is, as usual, part of the publication. Check it all out here: 🖇️ https://lnkd.in/dN3FUUjj 🖇️

🎈 Welcome to our AI for Corporates Launch Evening 🎈 For our AI in Corporates Series of articles – on AI for Hiring, Training and Enhancing Productivity – we’ve had some great input from Sana’s President Jon Lexa. Check out his ✨ comments on AI in Training and Development below. Next week we’ll do a dive 🤿 into the content of all 3 articles - and hear from a few experts in person - at an AI for Corporates Evening in 🇬🇧 London. 🙋🏼♀️ Want to be part of it? Full details and registration here: https://lu.ma/muu9agfb