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Blueprint announces Blueprint 2.0! "Designed by therapists, powered by AI" "Therapists enter this profession to help people, not to drown in paperwork. But today, they’re spending up to 30% of their time on documentation just to meet insurance demands. It’s not just draining their energy—it’s impacting the very care they’re working so hard to provide." We're so happy to see the hard work from Danny Freed and Blueprint materialize into Blueprint 2.0, which now surfaces AI-powered insights and suggestions to enhance care delivery across the entire client journey. Read Danny's post here: https://lnkd.in/gFxdYcPu

Khosla Ventures joins Loti AI’s mission to combat deepfakes on the front lines. We’re excited to welcome KV to an already great group of investors in Loti AI’s seed round. Luke Arrigoni is truly an amazing founder on a generational mission: to protect the integrity and authenticity of online identities. The company applies advanced facial and voice recognition capabilities to monitor the web for deepfakes and other inappropriate uses of likenesses online. Luke is supported by a uniquely sophisticated team, and his career in the entertainment industry puts Loti in prime position to access the all-important Hollywood market, where the use of likenesses according to contract is of paramount importance. Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/g2YjUfNk Conrad Shang Collin West Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D FUSE Bling Capital K5 Global Alpha Edison

Thrilled to see Gopi (Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D), our Head of Data Science, join Jason Scharf on the Austin Next podcast to dive into the finer points of data-driven venture. If you have a chance to listen, you'll see Gopi isn't just the brains behind the data science and machine learning -- more importantly, he's the foremost expert in designing practical, repeatable investment processes using data analysis. From the outside looking in, it can seem like data-driven venture is about constructing a "black box" model that automatically identifies winners. The truth is that data is only a starting point -- a foundation that allows human investors to do the hard work of underwriting opportunities more effectively. A must-listen for anyone interested in the future of venture capital. Thanks to Jason Scharf for his relentless support of the Austin venture ecosystem! Collin West Conrad Shang Ian Heinrich Lilly Vernor Nesta Lenhert-Scholer Nicole Harbert Stump Rooney Pitchford

If you are in the VC space, you should know one of the early drivers of "Moneyball for VC". That's Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D Gopi partnered with the Kauffman Fellows Fund on implementing these concepts in their investment process. The results were staggering. 50% of the investments the fund made became unicorns. In Gopi's words ???? "We knew something was working, so we thought: Let's build this a little bigger." What did that look like in practice? 1?? Gopi's firm uses a single ‘source of truth’ platform to centralize information, improving decision-making and consistency. 2?? They maintain an even 50/50 split between data engineers and investors to ensure they leverage data to gain insights into teams, markets, and products. Want to learn more about what Gopi and the team at Ensemble VC has implemented at their firm? Check out the case study that our sponsor Harmonic published about the firm -->

?? READ HERE ?? Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D is back in the press, this time with an exclusive investor case study from Harmonic AI.? _____ A key framework for implementing a data-driven investment strategy is: which jobs are better done by computers, and which ones should be left to humans? From the outside looking in, it’s tempting to imagine that data-driven investing is about creating a “black box” model that picks unicorns from the very start (taking investors out of the picture). As you’ll read in this piece, the aim of data-driven strategies should be to get real-life investors MORE involved, NOT less. Gopi is a leading authority on designing tangible, actionable processes that allow data to augment the investor’s decision-making ability on a deal-by-deal basis. In this article, he provides the insight that escapes many data-curious investors: **process is just as important as data.** Read more below!

Ensemble is excited to announce our investment in Loti AI, a platform that protects the integrity and authenticity of online identities. The company applies advanced facial and voice recognition capabilities to monitor the web for deepfakes and other inappropriate uses of likenesses online. We sat down with founder Luke Arrigoni to chat about the deep mathematical background that informs his approach to problem-solving. Among other great quotes, Luke shared that when he identified the opportunity to create an effective internet watchdog, he thought, "I have a problem and I know that I'm the only one. So I'm just going to build it. I have to build it." Loti's mission is incredibly timely. In just the last few months, computer-generated likenesses have emerged as the headline legal battleground of the AI era. From voice actors identifying their own voices used in ads without compensation, to a public spat between OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson, the ease with which unauthorized likenesses are generated calls for an effective watchdog. Thanks to Luke Arrigoni for sitting down with Ensemble! We look forward to a long and impactful relationship. #lotiAI #EnsembleVC #deepfake #startups

Ensemble’s founders #inthenews once again! #Didyouknow Ensemble founder Collin West is a Guinness World Record holder? It usually takes a while to get Collin to tell you his full life story, but it’s all in one place in this interview with Mitchell Brown and The 1911 Group. Collin discusses his journey from Plano, to SMU, to the Arctic and back, and details the origins of Ensemble’s philosophy and execution. Conrad Shang Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D #DataDrivenVC #SMU #PonyUp #1911Group #ACC #Mustangs #VC

?????? Gopi’s legend grows! ?????? Ensemble’s Head of Data Science Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D is the latest investor to be featured in Harmonic.ai’s content series. It’s a testament to our belief that Gopi is the premier data scientist in VC. If you’ve ever been curious about how to incorporate data strategies into your investment process, this is the place to start. In this blog post (the first in a two-part series), Gopi discusses Ensemble’s approach to leveraging data for investment decisions and the process-oriented approach that drives our data architecture. The piece gives a detailed look at how we prioritize and manage lists of potential investments to optimize time and resources. Gopi talks sprint cycles, process innovations, balancing data insights with human judgment, and the value of continuous feedback to improve data models. Thanks so much to Max Ruderman and Harmonic for the feature, and stay tuned for a profile on Gopi! Collin West Conrad Shang Ian Heinrich Lilly Vernor Nesta Lenhert-Scholer #Innovation #VentureCapital #DataScience #DataDriven #AIinVC #FutureTech #InvestingInData #VCInsights

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