ENTERPRISE 4.0 | Q1 2023

The BGV Beat

KEY TRENDS

AI is Enabling Sustainable Development

Nothing Wasted

Sims Municipal Recycling installed four EverestLabs.AI robots in its New York City MRF and plans to add up to four more in 2023, bringing the facility into the AI age. 

AiDash wins SEAL Award

The SEAL Business Sustainability Awards honors leadership, innovation, and commitment to sustainable business practices.

DEEPER INSIGHTS

Enterprise Perspectives

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Selling Into the Enterprise

System integrators (SI’s) are the handmaidens between innovative startups and large enterprises. Both parties benefit from the relationship, as does the SI itself.

EAIGG
Responsible AI in the Enterprise

With Big Tech under the microscope, enterprises have awoken to the very real threats their AI systems can pose to privacy, accountability and transparency.

Financing Events

MadKudu, the Product-Led-Growth (PLG) leader disrupting the software industry closed its $18M Series A led by Felicis with participation from BGV, Alven, Techstars, and notable angels in the PLG space. 

MadKudu is powering Product-Led Growth companies like Miro, Figma, Algolia, Lucid, and Amplitude to identify their highest value users and accounts, increase win rates, optimize spend, and achieve their revenue goals sustainably and at scale.

Constella Intelligence is a leading global Digital Risk Protection business that works in partnership with some of the world’s largest organizations to safeguard what matters most and defeat digital risk. Its solutions are broad, collaborative and scalable, powered by a unique combination of proprietary data, technology and human expertise—including the largest breach data collection on the planet, with over 100 billion attributes and 45 billion curated identity records spanning 125 countries and 53 languages.

Perspectives on AI & Data Management

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Miriam Vogel,
Chair of NAIAC

Ethical AI Regulation is coming – Vogel presents practical insights for the startup, enterprise and VCs as they seek to adapt.

Anik Bose

Anik Bose,
GP at BGV

With the adoption of AI and data-driven technologies, data ethics is becoming an essential area of risk management for enterprises.

Patrick Bangert, VP at Samsung SDS

The elements in the architecture of an AI Cloud provide an ecosystem of tools so that you can focus on building your model. 

Dr. Sigal Shaked CTO Datomize

Sigal Shaked,
CTO at Datomize

Generative AI can produce more accurate prediction models by optimizing training data. The ability to normalize data and mitigate bias brings ethical AI advantages as well.

SPOTLIGHT

Generative AI - An Enterprise Investor Perspective

Human-centric AI is a foundational core of our investment thesis. With ChatGPT taking the world by storm, BGV General Partner and EAIGG Founder Anik Bose digs into the Generative AI disruption. In this analysis, Bose combines BGV investment thesis work around Enterprise 4.0 and ethical AI governance to generate a contrarian perspective on the generic media narrative around Generative AI.