Early-Stage AI: Fundraising and Trends, Obvious Ventures

02.27.2024 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM | CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship

Please join us for an interactive presentation and discussion led by Kahini Shah and Vishal Vasishth from Obvious Ventures. 

Vishal & Kahini will talk about and answer questions about fundraising and trends that were seeing in this fast-moving category of AI. They will have a focus on “Generative Science” i.e. companies tackling big ambitious problems in healthcare, biology, robotics, industrials, future of work.

Obvious is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs reimagining every sector of the economy through a world positive lens. Since launching in 2014, Obvious has backed over 100 purpose-driven companies building transformative solutions to the systemic environmental and social challenges of our time. Obvious, one of the first firms in the world to become B Corp Certified, has over $1 billion AUM.

Select investments include Virta, Devoted Health, and Galileo in healthcare; Zymergen, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and Inceptive.life in computational biology; Proterra, Lilium, and Dexterity Robotics in industrials; Hedvig, One Finance, Corvus, and Openly in fintech; and Incredible Health and Gusto, platforms helping people thrive at work.

For more head to www.obvious.com.

Lunch will be provided to registered attendees as a part of the session.