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Anamcara Venture Partner Gary Turner (Co-Founder, Xero UK) delves into the importance of prioritising customers over technological advancements in today's AI-driven environment. He shares important advice for founders on integrating AI into products and services in ways that serve customer needs "Does deploying AI in your product or service simply augment an existing workflow or completely flip it on its head? If it’s the latter, be wary of following traditional thinking regarding how you price or sell your product" Read Gary's article on customer-centricity versus tech-centricity here - https://lnkd.in/dSECRXm3.

?? SO excited to announce our investment in Anam's $2.3m pre-seed round led by Concept Ventures. Anam is launching their real time AI personas ?? This technology is set to transform customer interactions, product interfaces, and user experiences across industries. Key features: - Real-time interactions, latency 700-1200ms - Photorealistic, expressive human-like personas - Scalable to match your demand Check it out and test it for yourself here - anam.ai Thank you Caoimhe Murphy and Ben Carr for allowing us to come along on this journey. I'm blown away by all the progress in such a short time and impatiently waiting to see whats ahead! Excited to partner on this with our dear friends Reece Chowdhry Concept Ventures Jonathan Keidan Torch Capital and incredible angels such as Mati Staniszewski (ElevenLabs), Zeena Qureshi (Sonantic) ?? Anamcara https://lnkd.in/dD5zirBu

Special one incoming... proud to announce our participation in Ameba $7m seed round led by Hedosophia ???? I first met Cedrik Hoffmann a couple of years ago and we immediately clicked. What was supposed to be a brief 30 minute intro call quickly turned into a 2 hour long conversation about supply chain, venture and life. And as it so happens.. I know the space well due to a close family connection in retail & distribution (i.e. my twin Evelien Kahn) and I was immediately excited by the mission. Ameba uses generative AI on top of existing supply chain software to give retailers insights into their global supply chains, extracting data from a wide range of sources in order to predict disruptions and react to bottlenecks. Cedrik Hoffmann and Craig Massie make a stellar founding team and have since gathered incredibly talented people around them to support on this journey. It's a huge privilege to be part of this crew and to work once more alongside Hedosophia Sarra Zayani Putt Rodchareon and Visionaries Club Isabella Yamamoto Marton Sarkadi Nagy Thank you for believing in us LETS GO ! https://lnkd.in/dacvMcb6 Anamcara

?? Explore vs Exploit ? As a startup, how do you think about resource allocation in product development & engineering? Anamcara 's Venture Partner Philip Reynolds uses concepts such as the Bee Algorithm (and others!) to make sense of it all. Another great one by his hand. Not to miss https://lnkd.in/dBaYQnKh

Beyond proud and excited to announce our portfolio company Anterior (formerly Co:Helm) raised a $20m Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) ?? Anterior is on a mission to unlock administrative efficiencies for healthcare payers. At the core of the platform is, Florence, an AI-powered clinical co-pilot designed for every administrative workflow a clinician needs to perform. The U.S. healthcare system spends?$950 billion each year on administrative costs, largely driven by the expensive labor of clinicians whose clinical expertise is required for a variety of workflows. By starting with prior authorization, Anterior is solving an expensive and time-consuming component of the payer workflow, while also helping patients receive care faster. Its is a huge privilege to continue to support Abdel Mahmoud, MD, Zahid Mahmood, Tahseen Omar and the team as part of the Anamcara family. Many many congratulations !! ?? Thank you for having us on this journey ?? New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Mohamad Makhzoumi Sequoia Capital George Robson Blue Lion Manu Gupta Nebular Finn Murphy Mustafa Suleyman Imran Mahmud, MD Dorothy Chou Mehdi Ghissassi Joshua Browder

?? So very proud to announce our portfolio company Nory raised a $16m Series A led by Accel ?? Huge congratulations to Conor Sheridan and the team! Nory has created a proprietary AI-powered platform for hospitality businesses to manage and scale operations, and vitally increase profitability through centralising all of the key operational data into a unique single source of truth. The platform has delivered nearly 20% cost reduction and a consistent EBITDA increase of 50% for its customers. Nory works with brands such as Buns From Home, Jamie Oliver Group, and Roasting Plant Coffee across the UK, Europe, and the US. In 2023, the company boosted its own revenue by 400% Since we met Conor in 2021, he has been a league of his own. Resilient, visionary, and always moving forward. He built all this as a solo founder, a rarity, alongside a stellar team. It has resulted in a fantastic product that customers absolutely love ?? Very excited to continue partnering with Conor Sheridan and the Nory team. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be part of this amazing journey ?? we are so grateful Anamcara Cavalry Ventures Playfair Triple Point Samaipata Luca Bocchio Alessandra Mazzilli Bj?rn Loose Seb Wallace Chris Smith