Texas may be The Lone Star State, we shouldn't have lone star entrepreneurs! The Texas Venture Fest (formerly Texas Venture Crawl), Oct 3rd brings together thousands of Texans to celebrate innovation across 18+ venues in 12 cities. Co-created by leaders in the startup ecosystem and hosted by BuildGroup and other venture firms, this is your chance to connect with dynamic startups and top investors. Don't miss this opportunity to engage in insightful discussions and shape the future of Texas entrepreneurship! https://lnkd.in/gMbuywt9
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BuildGroup is a venture capital investment firm based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2015, we are a team of former tech founders and executives who invest in emerging AI-enabled SaaS companies as they start to scale. Some of us are from our Rackspace and OpenStack days. Some of us are founders from BuildGroup’s portfolio companies who have started advising other portfolio companies. Together, we’re a collective of operators who work closely with leaders to solve operational challenges and build high-performing teams and businesses. Visit www.buildgroup.com for more information on BuildGroup, its leaders, investment strategy, and portfolio companies.
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- 风险投资与私募股权管理人
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- Austin，Texas
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- 2015
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- Modern Business Models、Permanent Capital、Investments、Venture Capital & Private Equity、Data Science、Platforms、Networks和SaaS
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At BuildGroup, we believe that investing in future talent is as crucial as investing in promising startups. This summer, we had the pleasure of welcoming three talented interns into our firm. In our latest blog post, Maahika Saini, Chris Wang and Coleman Cochran share their experiences, lessons learned, and the impact of their time with us. Read the full post on our blog: https://lnkd.in/eVTmdsPc
Builders of the Future: Meet BuildGroup's Summer Interns
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We are thrilled to announce that SoundHound AI has acquired Amelia! SoundHound AI and Amelia combine decades of conversational AI expertise and complementary product portfolios to deliver scalable customer service solutions to nearly 200 major enterprise brands, including top global banks and Fortune 500 companies. Thanks to all of the Amelians and to Lanham Napier, Brett Deware and Olivia Cannell for being a part of the journey so far to form a new category leader in the #ConversationalAI space.
NEWS ??: SoundHound AI Acquires Amelia, Significantly Expanding Its Scale and Reach In Conversational AI Across New Verticals and Hundreds of Enterprise Brands. Amelia is thrilled to join forces with SoundHound AI to deliver AI-powered experiences across even more verticals. Read the full press release here: https://hubs.li/Q02KyZHf0
SoundHound AI Acquires Amelia, Significantly Expanding Its Scale and Reach In Conversational AI Across New Verticals and Hundreds of Enterprise Brands
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ICYMI: Our Senior Associate Miguel Perez Jr. wrote this thought piece for our blog about how rapid advancements in AI have created unprecedented opportunities for businesses to leverage cutting-edge technology. Read the full post to learn about: ? Why this is happening now ? How it is impacting business models? ? Examples of AI apps with compelling enterprise?use cases ? What companies should keep top of mind as they navigate the changing business landscape
Harnessing AI: Evolving Business Models and the New World of Work
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You might have noticed that the BuildGroup website, LinkedIn, and blog are looking a little different. A bit newer, a tad crisper, and a lot more Austin. Our brand refresh emphasizes our identity as a different kind of venture firm. One that prioritizes long-term relationships over transactions and brings operational partnership to the table. Building sustainable businesses that customers love is what we love to do, and we wanted our brand to reflect that. Key elements of our brand evolution include a building blocks-inspired logo, a warm and modern color palette that echoes our Austin roots and home base (though we back great companies everywhere), and a super usable website and blog. Read more about our design and brand process on our blog: https://lnkd.in/d6AjMsxc What do you think? How’d we do? #Rebrand #VentureCapital #StartupInvesting #BuildGroup
BuildGroup’s Brand Refresh
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Congratulations to Dorian and the Squirro team on their acquisition of Synaptica | A Squirro Company! Learn about how this acquisition positions both companies at the forefront of the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven knowledge management and business process automation: https://lnkd.in/eUPC3yFa
We have been hiding something BIG, and today, we want to share it with you! AI data integrity and precision are of utmost importance to us, and for this reason, we are extremely excited to announce the acquisition of Synaptica, a renowned US-based SaaS provider of enterprise taxonomy management and knowledge graph systems. Discover the whole story here: https://lnkd.in/eJXjEkzB #squirro #acquisition #technews #krag #synaptica
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Businesses today are presented with unparalleled opportunities to harness innovations and transform their business models, with the surging demand for computational power, exponential growth of data creation, and continuous weekly breakthroughs in AI technologies. We @ BuildGroup are enthusiastic about the transformative impact of AI advancements at the application layer. Platform SaaS companies with proprietary data assets are uniquely positioned to deliver differentiated and innovative applications. Helping these kinds of companies scale is our primary focus. We are witnessing compelling use cases where AI is creating significant value for enterprises across various domains, including AI agents, search, analytics, design, and logistics. As we prepare for this new era, founders must consider several critical factors:? - How pricing models will adapt with AI solutions - The necessary talent to drive their organizations forward - The evolution of user interfaces - Leveraging multiple AI models effectively - Aligning their data strategy with their overall AI strategy You can check out our latest blog post on harnessing AI and evolving business models here: https://lnkd.in/gmyW5RpT
Harnessing AI: Evolving Business Models and the New World of Work
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It's that time of year when Vitamin D, along with sunscreen, become daily companions. For most of us in the innovation economy, however, there is still work, and even more learning, to be done in the summer. That's why the BuildGroup team, along with the leaders driving our portfolio companies forward, have recommended their favorite books for entrepreneurs. This curated list spans recent hits to older hidden gems, all surely to keep your brain active as the days get longer. Check out top picks from Amelia, Squirro, Vidmob and Cybrary here: https://lnkd.in/eaZGW8SR
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Our VP Eric Levine wrote about key learnings from his recent panel with SaaS leaders leveraging AI for their businesses. Read the full versions of his four takeaways on our blog: https://lnkd.in/d-anx7Nz
I interviewed four impressive leaders at the forefront of incorporating AI into product live at BuildGroup’s Annual Meeting this year:? - Ben Eachus (CEO) and Jason Harbert (CTO) of Flowspace, which powers fulfillment for merchants with software and a network of warehouses? - Mickey Alon (CTO/CPO) of VidMob, which helps enterprise brands measure & optimize creative effectiveness.? - Liam DeCoste (CTO) of PressW, a consulting firm which helps companies adopt AI into their workflows. Here are four takeaways from our discussion: 1. Tech execs should focus on real ROI for the power user as opposed to just leveraging cool technology for its own sake. For Flowspace, the power user could be a single person at a DTC company with all of the responsibility of ensuring the right product gets to the right consumers on time at minimal cost. The ability to tell a system to “freeze orders from this bad batch of dogfood” can save hours and improve consumer happiness.? VidMob’s brand manager power user can instantly interpret what creative ads are appropriate for different audiences and automatically ensure that all ads adhere to brand best practices. 2. I saw this at the Pablo Escobar museum: “El dinero fácil no dura" (Easy money doesn’t last). Putting a simple wrapper around GPT and up-charging customers is challenging to sustain. The hard work of automating workflow and building a proprietary data asset bolsters a company’s ability to provide outsized value to users. In the land-grab that the latest AI wave has kicked off, founders should take the high ground that they are uniquely capable of defending. For VidMob, this means leveraging 18 million analyzed videos and insights from the feedback loop of knowing which ads were successful. For Flowspace, this means leveraging millions of historical order history of addresses, warehouses, shipping times, and costs. 3. This Time Really Is Different: While prior innovative cycles in AI over the decades were followed by “AI Winters”, the current deep learning renaissance is different. Foundation Models are in the early innings and ordinary organizations can leverage a host of new off-the-shelf tools. 4. 3/4 panelists took a $100 bet that OpenAI will be worth over $100B in 10 years, but the first mover is not always the biggest winner. Accordingly it makes sense to plan for flexibility with multiple models. And the hardware paradigm that supports these models is shifting quickly. *Note: BuildGroup invested in Flowspace and Vidmob, & engages PressW for consulting. This content does not constitute an offer of any investment advisory services, nor does it constitute an offer to issue or sell, or of a solicitation of an offer to subscribe or buy, any securities or other financial instruments, nor a financial promotion, investment advice or an inducement or incitement to participate in any product, offering, or investment." https://lnkd.in/gk2msqeQ
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We’re pleased to announce our newly-launched talent network: https://lnkd.in/drmbvAXv Want to be considered for job opportunities with us or one of our fabulous portfolio companies, including Vidmob,?Flowspace,?Amelia, and Squirro? Head to our?talent page?to see openings, or upload your resume (and we’ll alert you when a relevant match to your profile comes up). #hiring #talent #jobs?