Kwesi Acquay
@kwesi_acquay
Growth investor @redpoint | Interested in software & vertical AI | Previous stops: @jpmorgan tech IB, @HarlemCapital, @HarvardHBS, and @Cornell
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31-05-2020 22:46:12
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Some of the best companies started in a downturn, and we believe the next generation of founders will be revolutionary. TechCrunch’s Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Annie Kadavy and Erica Brescia to share the news of our $650M fund to support early stage companies: techcrunch.com/2022/08/01/tec…
Big shoutout to Omni for coming out of stealth with a total of $26.9M ($17.5M Series A)! Hear from Data veterans Jamie Davidson, Colin Zima and Chris about what they're building, and from Tomasz Tunguz about why we're so excited.
For my first 7+ years in vc (‘14-Jan ‘22), I did 1 podcast episode ever w/ Harry Stebbings in ‘15. Now I’ve done a few more but Harry & I finally ran it back. Cover a bunch of topics (why most b2b marketers suck, state of vc/how we compete Redpoint etc): thetwentyminutevc.com/logan-bartlett/
Had such a blast bringing together a 🔥 group of Harvard Business School enterprise VCs last night! While no one was cold called, the debates were lively about the future of AI 🤖& beyond. Specials thanks to the best co-hosts Molly Welch Kwesi Acquay Jackie Hyland
Enjoyed sharing thoughts with Business Insider about the next wave of fintech rising stars including Redpoint portco Proper Finance in addition to forage! businessinsider.com/top-best-finte…
Amazing new Unsupervised Learning with Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Patrick Chase on: - Moats in GenAI - The future of search - How Perplexity ships so fast - When to build your own models Spotify: spoti.fi/3H27UUJYT: YT: youtu.be/A2uBXF8iPKY
Sharing a brief presentation during my opening remarks to 400+ builders at Stanford's LLM x Law hackathon. Special thanks to Dr. Megan Ma, Jay Mandal, Roland Vogl and the entire CodeX Stanford team for putting on a great week of events! Enjoyed judging great technical projects