ENTERPRISE 4.0 | AUGUST 2021

The BGV Beat

KEY TRENDS

Robotics-as-a-Service

Blendid: How AI-Powered Robots are Helping the Food Industry

Working closely with key partners like Walmart and Jamba kiosk locations in California, we’ve seen firsthand how robots are helping expand accessibility and availability at all hours of day to healthy food options, especially where hiring and staffing limitations would typically make it incredibly cost prohibitive.

EverestLabs: No Recyclable Left Behind

We believe that the artificial intelligence solutions being used by the world’s most successful companies can and should be applied to recycling. Experience tells us that AI solutions can be built from the ground up for the recycling ecosystem by spending time with the Materials Recycling Facilities (MRF) operators and by listening to MRF operators’ pain points from all angles that present core challenges in optimizing their operations.

DEEPER INSIGHTS

Cyber Security Automation

Spyderbat: Bridging the Chasm from Threat Detection to Response

While current triage and investigation methods leave security analysts concerned with what is missing, learn how Spyderbat’s attack tracing and intercept bridges the detection and response chasm with fast, accurate, and complete details to radically compress time.

Stack Identity: Re-Imagining AccessOps for the Cloud Native Era

When cybersecurity professionals are caught in a tsunami of cyber attacks, the last thing they need is to drown in more alerts. Imagine a self-aware prevention platform, optimized for cloud-native threats to access control, that continuously assesses risk in real time. Stack Identity puts security teams back in the driver’s seat.

Perspectives: Cross Border Investing

The Evolution of Western European Tech Talent

BGV General Partner Anik Bose sits with Adara’s Alberto Gomez to discuss B2B tech innovation and the evolution of Western Europe’s entrepreneurial talent landscape

Israel's Cross Border Startup Model

BGV Founder and General Partner Eric Benhamou hosted a fireside chat with JVP’s Yoav Tzruya on Israel’s Cross Border Startup Model.

France's Growing Cross Border Deals

Paris has emerged as the largest tech hub in the European Union, and is second only to London in all of Europe. BGV Principal Sarah Benhamou speaks with Hi Inov’s Valere Rames to discuss…

Entering the US: BGV's Playbook

To enter the US market and build a successful cross border company, consider the same three-legged stool framework you’d use to launch your venture at home: Team, Product and Market.

SPOTLIGHT

The Five Pillars of Ethical AI

BGV GP Anik Bose sits with IBM’s Senior Managing Partner for Strategy, Global Innovation and Corporate Development Jesus Mantas. Jesus sits on the World Economic Forum’s task force for AI and Ethics and is on BGV’s Enterprise 4.0 Industry Advisory Board. Here, the two discuss the five pillars of Ethical AI: 1) Explainability 2) Fairness 3) Robustness 4) Transparency 5) Privacy.