Dave Anderson & Erasmus Elsner: Early Stage Tech & AI Investing
Episode description
Dave Anderson is the founding partner of Beat Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that use AI to enhance humans in overlooked legacy industries. Early checks into Ziva Dynamics (acq. by Unity), Bipi (acq. by RBI), AEYE (NASDAQ: LIDR), Common Sense Machines, Drishti, Operant AI, Volur, Stack AI, Oxen AI, Bitpart AI, Bolo AI, Middleware, Hireguide, Treehouse, Fishtail, Clockwork, Safe, Mentorcam, Dropverse, Truewind, Athenic AI, Universal Hydrogen, Carbice, Nauto, Metawave, Realtime Robotics, May Mobility, Skip, Clubhouse, Firefly, and SoftDrive. Featured in Crain’s Detroit Business 20 in their 20s, Huffington Post, Blac Magazine, and ABC’s 20/20. Harvard MBA, Michigan Engineer. Erasmus Elsner is the founder of Sand Hill Road, which is a maker studio that builds, advises and invests in Seed/Series A startups. Partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs in infrastructure, cloud, open-source, devops and ML/AI at the earliest stages of the climb. Topics:
- Early-Stage Investing Trends
- Overlooked Industries and Applied AI
- Keys to Building and Scaling a Successful VC Firm
#VentureCapital #AI #Fintech #InvestmentTrends #AugmentedIntelligence #CommunityBuilding