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Excellent panel on the societal, investment, startup/scaleup opportunities (and challenges) of AI with (L to R) ✅ 🦖 Christopher Lowe, CEO at NOTWICS ✅ Richard Potter, CEO at Peak ✅ George Mensah, Sure Valley Ventures - UK AI Investor ✅ Christopher Hill, MD at EdenBase - US AI Investor ✅ Tim Ryan, Partner at DAC Beachcroft Some good insights for the AI4C (AI for Charities) community and ScaleUp Group work with AI startups/scaleups. My notes :- ➡️ Foundational level is not where the value is. ➡️ General understanding of AI opportunities/impact is low … ”it took to Series C before I had to stop explaining” so clearly a big need to raise AI awareness/knowledge/education ➡️ Peak are already fine tuning LLMs so this option is available to incumbents. ➡️ Startups still have speed and agility so can be successful by addressing a real-world customer painpoints with excellent business metrics, speed on “go to market” ➡️ You need data (and domain expertise). Quality, not necessarily quantity of data. ➡️ Is there really a lot of “dry powder” out there ready to deploy ? LP conversations are very tough. Funds haven't necessarily delivered liquidity. ➡️ Buy in Europe, list in the US ➡️ Timing of IPO key, founders need to understand the reporting is/can be onerous - effectively every 6 weeks. ➡️ How to get value out in a reasonable time without affecting share price ➡️ If you're worth x2-3 in US - you can raise capital easier for organic/inorganic growth ➡️ Opportunities ➕ Ask how can AI augment human experience ➕ Personalised learning and Healthcare care ➕ Robotics ➡️ Challenges ⚠️ AI tools as a weapons of coercion ⚠️ Regulation - getting the best balance between enabling innovation and societal safety ⚠️ A lot of power in large private companies Many thanks to the 👏 panel 👏 🦖 Christopher Lowe for organising 👏 Tim Ryan and DAC Beachcroft team for hosting