Podcasts about glasswing ventures

In this episode, host Asha Mehta, CFA, chats with Rudina Sesri, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, to explore AI's transformative role in financial services and beyond. Rudina shares her remarkable journey from immigrating to the U.S. as a teenager to becoming a leading investor in AI and enterprise technology. The discussion delves into how AI is reshaping industries like finance and supply chain logistics, the importance of curiosity in leadership, and the evolving global AI landscape. Rudina also offers insights on the competitive race between the U.S. and China in AI innovation and how professionals can adapt to an increasingly AI-driven world.   Pull Up a Chair is produced by Association Briefings.

Episode 351 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Meredith McPherron, CEO & Managing Partner at Drive by DraftKings. Legalized sports betting, NIL, transfer portals, college conference re-alignment, streaming, pitch clocks, new kickoffs, the explosion of pickelball, and so much more, there is no denying it, the sports industry is going through a rapid amount of transformation. But the number one area that I'm the most excited about is the explosion of women's sports… from college basketball, WNBA, NWSL, Olympic success, and more… there is so much going on! Thus, I couldn't pick a better person to have a conversation about how women's sports are having a moment than with Meredith and this topic is exactly how we kick off our interview. If you are not familiar with Drive by DraftKings, the firm invests in seed and Series A companies in the SportsTech and Entertainment industry specifically in Gaming, Fandom, and Human Performance. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * Meredith's background story including being a walk-on two sport Division 1 athlete at Harvard. * Getting her career started in investment banking and consumer products at General Mills and how she made the switch to the tech industry. * Running her own startup called Zipteva, which was early to market and would have been perfect in today's world of NIL deals. * Her role at The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS which was the segue into her role as a VC at Glasswing Ventures. * All the details about Drive by DraftKings and what she is targeting for investments, plus its all-star network. * Biggest challenges around building a startup in the sports industry. * And so much more.

In this special re-release, we dive into the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence with Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, as she reflects on AI investment and innovation. Rudina provides an analysis of the AI industry, addressing pressing questions on the technology's evolution and her assessment of its long-term potential to impact the enterprise.

SaaStr 738: How Shopify Implements AI Across Sales and Product with Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures At SaaStr AI Day, Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems. Mike and Rudina do a great job of explaining the complex AI terminology for everyday non-technical founders and leaders to understand and apply to their businesses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SaaStr hosts the largest SaaS community events on the planet. Join us in 2024 at: SaaStr Annual: Sept. 10-12 in the SF Bay Area. Join 12,500 SaaS professionals, CEOs, revenue leaders and investors for the world's LARGEST SaaS community event of the year. Podcast listeners can grab a discount on tickets here: https://www.saastrannual2024.com/buy-tickets?promo=fave20 SaaStr Europa: June 5-6 in London. We'll be hosting the 5th SaaStr Europa in London for two days of content and networking. Join 3,000 SaaS and Cloud leaders. Podcast listeners can grab a discount on Europa tickets here: https://www.saastreuropa2024.com/buy-tickets?promo=fave200 --------------   This episode is sponsored by Pendo, the all-in-one product experience platform. Pendo helps your users do the things you really want them to do. You can try Pendo for free at Pendo.io/saastr and check out Mind The Product, the community for product people like… us.   This episode is sponsored by: Remote.com Are international payroll regulations giving you a headache? Remote.com is your solution. With our best-in-class interface and expertise, we consolidate payroll for your employees, whether in one country or a hundred. Trust us with swift, secure payments for your team while you focus on scaling markets and driving business growth.   This episode is sponsored by: Northwest Registered Agent Get more when Northwest Registered Agent starts your business. They'll form your company fast and stand up your entire business identity in minutes. That means business free domain, business email, website, hosting, address, mail scanning, business phone app, all within minutes. Visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/saastr to get a 60 percent discount on your next LLC.

At Glasswing Ventures, Rudina Seseri wants to be able to answer the question: What has Glasswing Ventures done for the company beyond capital investment? She speaks to Jon Krohn about how her company uses data to assess venture capital investments, the secret sauce of successful AI startups, and why she feels generative AI is only the start of a much broader impact that AI will make in communities and businesses. This episode is brought to you by the DataConnect Conference (https://www.dataconnectconf.com/dccwest/conference), and by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility (https://www.readytensor.ai/). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit https://passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • Potential interest areas for Series A AI venture capitalists [12:22] • How Glasswing's AI Palette helps AI startups [23:06] • How data driven the venture capital industry is [27:21] • Advice for adopting services from AI providers [47:21] • Model collapse: Causes and concerns [58:44] • Glasswing's checklist for AI startups [1:04:59] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/763

In this episode we spoke with Brittany Hodak (author of Creating Superfans), Nate Henderson (CEO of BILT Intelligent Instructions), Carol Meyers (Partner at Glasswing Ventures) and Andy Cockburn (CEO and Co Founder of Mention Me).  Our expert panel discussed their top CX highlights from 2023 as well as the biggest challenges and lessons they'd encountered over the last 12 months. We then shifted our focus to 2024, where we discussed the key CX trends to be aware of next year and how to turn customer advocacy into a core marketing strategy.

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS The best product doesn't always win — the team that has the most conversations with customers, investors, and partners does. Every week — test an industry, persona, and problem in your early-stage outbound. Over 12 weeks, you need to rip through 12 market segments to find your ICP. Play laptop closed! See how long you can go without opening your demo to sell a deal. Don't worry about the two, three, or four-year deals. Win customers in year one, and if your product is right, you'll keep them in year two and beyond. PATH TO PRESIDENT'S CLUB Partner @ Glasswing Ventures Growth Advisor @ CloudTruth Growth Advisor @ Talla Co-Founder @ Reprise THE LATEST FROM 30MPC Tactic TV Toolkits & Templates Twitter YouTube THINGS YOU CAN STEAL Prospecting Lavender: Sales Email Frameworks ZoomInfo: 5 Plays, 30MPC Style Woodpecker: Nick's Sales Cadence Orum: 5 Cold Call Objection Talk Tracks Owler: 4 Multi-Channel Prospecting Touchpoints (Try Owler Max) Boomerang: Tactics for Peak Productivity Hireframe: Fast Track your Prospecting Discovery & Demo Clari: How to Sell to the CFO Calendly: Speed up your sales cycle & increase revenue Klue: Dismantling Competitors Sales Process Demandbase: 6 Templates to Accelerate Deals Gong: Master Class Qwilr: Multithreading Power Plays Outreach: 1 Sequence to Create and 5 Templates to Close Accord: Business Case Template Prolifiq: Relationship Mapping Playbook Salesloft: Selling to Power ONE ASK You know we feel a bit awkward asking, but if you made it this far, it would mean the world if you joined our newsletter. It will increase your chances of making President's Club by 227%. Okay maybe not, but we'd still really love you for it :)

In this episode we spoke with Carol Meyers, an experienced CMO and now venture partner at Glasswing Ventures. Carol discussed why more venture capital groups now look at investing in referable companies with high retention rates, and not just the ones bringing in the most new business. During our chat, Carol shared some examples of businesses she's invested in that were successfully growing through their biggest advocates and what they've been able to achieve as a result.

Blooming Health announced on Sep 6, 2023, they raised an over-subscribed $4.2M seed fund to enable service providers to engage older adults and their family members. This episode was recorded almost a year before the raise, on Sep 9, 2022, and is a conversation with AARP Foundation and Blooming Health in which we walk through the innovation program's success between the two firms. It's the perfect example of tangible innovation leading to growth for all involved.

Rudina Seseri is one of the top VCs in the world. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that are enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. She is Startup Boston's 2022 Investor of the Year, Business Insider's Most Important VC in Boston and Top VC investing in AI and Machine Learning. We talk about jumping the curve to a new paradigm, the mass consumerization of AI, vertical applications, tourist and hype investing, the role of open source, wrappers vs. native and why empires die slowly.

Cybersecurity is a great field because of the all the change, says Ted Julian. But to succeed, you have to be proactive about that change. Ted and Gene talk about how to keep up with the change, plus about his experience in the early days of cybersecurity, what it's like to work in product management, and why joining an early-stage company is so beneficial.Ted Julian has held leadership positions in several security companies, including Devo and Resilient. He is currently a Venture Partner at Glasswing Ventures. Ted Julian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedjulian/

In this episode of B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth, Benedict sits down with Jennifer Leggio to discuss how attribution for marketing and sales needs to change with the buyer journey.Nowadays, it's extremely important for sales and marketing to work together to achieve the same goal of creating pipeline. However, it would seem many B2B businesses are functioning as if marketing and sales can be accurately measured with the same KPIs. Using the same metrics for marketing as sales will undoubtedly create incomplete or inaccurate data on how marketing contributes to pipeline. Additionally, with how fast the world changes, it's more important than ever to reevaluate how marketing and sales can tackle the buyer journey and what metrics to judge them by. So what needs to change?Jennifer Leggio is CMO of Netography, and she has been an innovative and tenacious B2B marketer for 23+ years. Her career has focused primarily on the cybersecurity industry, and she has significant experience in communications and growth strategy. Prior to joining Netography in 2022, Jennifer has held several senior marketing positions including as CMO & VP Revenue Operations at Virsec, CMO of Claroty, CMO & VP Operations at Flashpoint, and more. She has also served as an Advisor for MetroSITE Group, LLC, Infocyte, Inc., Glasswing Ventures, and more.You can find Jennifer Leggio on Linkedin.You can watch full video versions of the podcast on our YouTube channel.Ready to provoke the truth? Get in touch at alan-agency.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Picture this: you're attempting to make your favorite cocktail with a blender, the vital tool that promises to unify varied ingredients into a symphony of flavors. However, misusing this powerful device or misunderstanding its capabilities can lead to a catastrophic concoction, much like the unintended mess when AI is poorly incorporated into your business. In the B2B SaaS realm, AI mirrors this high-tech blender, capable of transforming your services, processing customer needs, and unveiling potential you never knew existed. But be wary, the allure of AI's mesmerizing whirl can deceive, causing more harm than good when the focus is on the technology's novelty rather than tangible outcomes.As we navigate this intricate landscape, our expert mixologist for this journey, Rudina Seseri, steps up to the bar. As the founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, Rudina has perfected the art of mixing AI into business operations. Under her guidance, we learn that leading with outcomes, rather than the mere fascination of AI, can help avoid misuse and leverage this tool to solve real-world problems effectively. In today's episode, Rudina unpacks the complexities of AI implementation, helping us avoid the common traps that turn AI dreams into nightmares. So, buckle up as we explore the exciting yet challenging world of AI in B2B SaaS with Rudina, transforming your approach to AI and setting you up for a taste of success.High-Level OverviewIt's crucial to lead with outcomes, not with the lure of AI: This means focusing on the results and value AI can bring to the business, rather than the novelty of AI itself.AI implementation requires strategic thought: It's not about embracing AI for the sake of it, but about a thoughtful integration strategy that aligns with business goals.AI should be used as a tool for competitive differentiation: It can allow companies to uncover hidden insights, streamline processes, and anticipate customer needs.Risks associated with AI need to be identified and mitigated: Without a clear understanding of potential challenges, AI can lead to more problems than it solves.A balanced approach is required when dealing with AI: It's essential to combine strategic implementation, human judgment, and automation to achieve the desired outcomes.Strategically Implementing AIStrategically implementing AI within your business is akin to a finely tuned orchestra, where each instrument plays its part to create a harmonious symphony. When done right, AI can be the maestro that harmonizes your processes, uncovers hidden insights, and anticipates customer needs, leading to a symphony of innovation and efficiency.Outcome-Centric Approach: Focus on the business outcomes that you desire, and use these as a compass when integrating AI within your business.Understand the Tools: A solid understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations allows for effective integration. Implement AI where it makes strategic sense and brings real value.Risk Assessment: Identify potential challenges and risks associated with AI implementation. Mitigation strategies should be in place before the onset of AI integration.Balance AI with Human Judgment: While AI can offer impressive automation and insights, it's important not to underestimate the role of human judgment in making key decisions.Continuous Learning and Adaptation: AI is a fast-evolving field. It's important to stay current and adapt your strategies as AI technologies and best practices evolve.In conclusion, implementing AI in your business is not a one-size-fits-all approach. It requires a thoughtful and nuanced strategy that aligns with your business goals, coupled with an understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations. The sweet spot lies in harmonizing AI capabilities with human judgment to achieve the desired outcomes. The magic happens when AI is not viewed as a novelty, but as an integral tool for business growth.Further LearningsFollow Rudina on LinkedIn.

Carol Meyers is a partner at Glasswing Ventures, and independent board member, and an executive coach. She was formerly the CMO at Rapid7.Carol Meyers on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroljmeyers/ 

Sarah Fay is a partner at Glasswing Ventures a first-capital-in venture capital firm investing in the next generation of intelligent enterprise and frontier technology startups. She is a pioneer and leader in marketing being the former North American CEO of Isobar and Aegis Media. Learn how AI will help us all as individuals, completely change the way marketing is created, distributed and measured and the keys to being a successful investor including pattern recognition. Further reading links: Glasswing Venture: https://glasswing.vc/Sarah Fay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfayboston/

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Incept interest early by citing articles, years at role, X times they've had role, etc. Find and rank top triggers, then use the first one you find when doing outreach. Establish trust by pointing out challenges or differences with typical customer profiles. Find design partners by being honest upfront with where your vision / product gaps are. PATH TO PRESIDENT'S CLUB Operating Partner @ Glasswing Ventures Former Co-Founder @ Reprise Former VP Sales @ Chorus Former VP Sales @ InsightSquared RESOURCES DISCUSSED: Time is running out to register for our upcoming 30MPC Live webinar. Download our exclusive cold calling battlecard by signing up for the newsletter. Improve sales execution with Outreach. Click to watch our playbook on how to write better subject lines. Gong improves your win rates, starting with their Discovery Cheat Sheet + our top discovery tactics. Share demos, proposals, and customer stories that push opportunities over the finish line with Vidyard. See our top video tips + use promo code 30MPC to upgrade to a Pro account free for 30 days.  Dooly instantly syncs notes to Salesforce and automatically adds contacts to accounts. Access the sales template we use to qualify and close more deals, faster. Automate conversational texting for the entire customer journey with Skipio. Check out our best practices for texting prospects. HELP US OUT! What do you love about our podcast? Please consider leaving a rating and review for the show. We always enjoy reading your comments and feedback!

Guest Zach Servideo is an entrepreneur and the founder of Value Creation Labs® (VCL), a brand studio-growth accelerator. The 15-year consulting veteran has spent time in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Known for his boundless energy and storytelling prowess, Servideo is a sought out chief brand officer of sorts for companies looking to elevate their public presence and stoke growth. In 2021, he created VCL as a means to one day realize his vision to own and operate a venture studio. He's currently building toward that goal helping provide flexible consulting services to a range of companies. He also has an investor network betting on those same companies. Servideo nurtures a dynamic VCL talent consortium ranging from artists and writers to patent attorneys and bankers. He's currently working with a group of Boston-based tech journalists on a series of custom analyst reports for Silicon Valley Bank, New England Venture Capital Association, Glasswing Ventures and Accomplice. With Servideo serving as publisher, the reports shed light on innovations from Boston that are hiding in plain sight and yet driving global economic growth. VCL recently released its latest report on cybersecurity. Of course, he's also the founder and host of Boston Speaks Up (BSU), an innovation podcast visiting with inspiring people from all walks of life that is sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank. Founded in 2018, BSU helped catapult Servideo back into the Boston innovation community he spent much of the 2000s and early 2010s in, before a five year stint in Los Angeles. He began his career at Schwartz Communications in the mid 2000s before transitioning to a role at fama PR in 2009 which found him embedded in the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) community at One Broadway, Kendall Square. It was at fama/CIC where Servideo began honing the craft of developing brands and taking startups to market – Opower (acquired by Oracle in 2016), Suniva, TweetMyJobs, CloudLock, to name a few. By 2012, he took the entrepreneurial plunge, created his first LLC and developed a business plan to bring his abilities to Los Angeles at a time when ‘Silicon Beach' was just taking off. He spent 5 years between LA and San Francisco bringing companies to market and helping them reach successful exits – Klutch to eBay (2015), Epoxy to Vemba (2016), Watchwith to Comcast (2017), Beachfront Media to PSP Capital (2017), Whosay to Viacom (2018), Downstream to Jungle Scout/Summit Partners (2021) along with several more. For those listeners less familiar with Servideo's work behind the scenes, he's an active business development specialist working on an array of initiatives to support first time founders. For example, he serves as entrepreneur-in-residence at Endicott College's Angle Center for Entrepreneurship where he's a major catalyst behind the school's startup incubator and annual Spark Tank startup competition. He somehow manages to play soccer a couple times a week, coach his daughter's youth soccer team and train/compete in triathlons (with one 70.3 Ironman under his belt).

Twitter's board has armed itself against a possible takeover bid. Billionaire Elon Musk has made a 43-billion dollar offer. He says the social media giant needs to be taken private to grow and become a platform for free speech. But what would a possible takeover mean for this platform? Join host Kim  Guests: Tim Hubbard, Assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Jim Anderson, Social Media Sector Lead at Glasswing Ventures. William Cohan, founder of Puck News and a Former Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banker.  

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on December 8 outlining a multi-billion-dollar plan for the federal government to achieve ‘net zero' by 2050, The Verge reports. Under the plan, the US government will switch to electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings, and use the power of the government to shift to cleaner forms of electricity. The government will stop purchasing petrol-powered passenger cars in 2027 but would only achieve 100 percent electric vehicle purchases by 2035. Biden's order will direct the government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent by the end of the decade before reaching full carbon neutrality by 2050. Amazon has been fined € 1.13 billion ($1.28 billion) by Italy's anti-trust regulator, CNBC reports. The Italian competition regulator, AGCM, has found that Amazon abused its market dominance by promoting its own logistics service, called Fulfilment Amazon. It claimed businesses had to use the FBA service to access benefits such as selling products with Prime delivery and participation in Black Friday sales. Amazon said, it "strongly disagrees" with the decision, and would appeal. Instagram's chief Adam Mosseri has called on US lawmakers to help regulate the platform, at a Senate hearing on December 8, which examined the harmful impact of social media on the mental health of teen users, BBC reports. Mosseri argued that Instagram is actively working to address the app's negative effects. However, he called for the creation of industry-wide regulations to police how social media platforms can operate. Inrupt, a startup co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee—widely credited as the leading figure in the creation of the internet—has raised about $30 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch reports. Forte Ventures led Inrupt's new round, the two said on Thursday, but both declined to disclose the size of the deal. The round saw participation from all existing investors, including Akamai Technologies and Glasswing Ventures, as well as new investors Allstate and the Minderoo Foundation's Frontier Technology Initiative. At Inrupt, Berners-Lee, the creator of the standards of the world wide web, and co-founder John Bruce are attempting to “reshape the internet” by building a platform that gives users control of their data. Miro, a visuals-based collaboration software maker, is seeking $17 billion in a new round of venture capital funding, Financial Times reports. The 10-year old startup describes itself as an online whiteboard platform for team collaboration. Miro's ‘infinite canvas' enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, and brainstorm ideas. Miro claims 25 million users worldwide, including more than 100,000 enterprise customers and 95 percent of the world's 100 biggest companies. Miro was founded by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in 2011. Meanwhile, Pleo, a Danish startup that makes expense management tools aimed at SMBs, has raised $200 million in fresh funding that doubles its value to $4.7 billion, TechCrunch reports. Jeppe Rindom, Pleo's co-founder and CEO, said it will use the money for acquisitions, accelerating expansion to new markets, adding more functionality to its product. Pleo helps SMBs issue company cards and better manage how employees spend money. Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for 2022, Dezeen magazine reports. Awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and personally approved by the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal celebrates those who have shaped the "advancement of architecture”. Doshi was selected in recognition of his 70-year career and his influence on the direction of architecture in India.

Guest Rick Grinnell is the Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies in AI and frontier software technologies. Grinnell is one of the most reputed cybersecurity investors in venture capital land. For the last 21 years, he's been investing in the various evolutions of security, storage, and SaaS-based startups out of his home base in the Boston area. He's become such a local staple in the Boston innovation ecosystem that if you're in venture capital and ever make your way to Boston, it's an absolute must that you meet him--not simply out of business reasons but out of the plain fact that he's one of the most interesting, multifaceted characters you could ever meet in venture capital. Grinnell is someone who defies categorization. If you get to know him a little more, you'll learn that he's a phenom on the pipe organ and skilled at enough instruments to form a one-man band if he really wanted. Check out his LinkedIn page, and you'll see not just the standard listing of past roles and accomplishments, but a bio populated with his current music playlist: Twenty One Pilots, Alan Walker, Michael Franti, Sharon Jones, and the Dap-Kings. In fact, it was his passion for music--specifically a fascination with the creation of digital sounds through electronics--that prompted him to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. While Grinnell is a venture capitalist by title and reputation nowadays, he very much remains the same essential spirit as before: a lover of great music, a self-described tech “nerd” and a gravitational center for those around him.

Today, we have the great pleasure of chatting with Rudina Seseri, Founder of Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI-powered software companies. With over 17 years of investing and related experience, Rudina has led investments in companies such as Celtra, Crowdtwist, ChaosSearch, Plannuh, Reprise, Inrupt, and Zylotech (recently acquired by Terminus).Prior to moving into venture capital, Rudina was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft Corporation and started her career as an investment banker at Credit Suisse. Rudina was appointed by the Dean of the Harvard Business School (HBS) for four consecutive years to serve as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Business School and has most recently been named to the HBS inaugural group of Rock Venture Capital Partners. Get on the email list at ventureunlocked.substack.com

Kleida Martiro is a Senior Associate on the investment team at Glasswing Ventures. Kleida has 6 years of entrepreneurship, product management and data science experience. Previously, she served as Head of Data Science at SocialFlow, where she led the machine learning efforts for the software platform, including its AI-powered proprietary content classifier for automating editorial content categorization. Prior to SocialFlow, Kleida was an analyst at Digitas, where she oversaw the utilization of new technology tools to enhance performance, including advanced analytics and the creation and implementation of digital content across social channels. Kleida graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Economics and Mathematics and holds an MBA with honors from the Kellogg School of Management.

Today's guest is Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures. Rudina has been a previous guest on The AI in Business Podcast, and today she speaks with us about how AI startups are pivoting their strategy by restructuring their business models and potentially changing who they are selling to in light of COVID-19. Rudina also shares her perspectives on emerging AI trends and how to identify them, which is an essential skill for consultants and vendors. If you'd like to explore one of Emerj's resources for spotting AI trends and making the most of them in your own business, download our free PDF brief, “3 Ways to Discover AI Trends,” at emerj.com/t3.

Today's guest is Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures, a VC firm in the Boston area focused on AI and startups. This week, she's here to share her insights on what smart data infrastructure represents and how it could shape the future of enterprise AI. Rudina delves deeper into this topic and focuses more precisely on the ecosystem needed to breathe life into AI and bring it ever closer to companies. This hypothesis-oriented interview is probably one of the most exciting so far as we discuss the future of technology with Rudina. If you're an AI consultant and want to drive more value for your customers or a business leader and want to know what AI can do for you, join Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1

When you think of the greatest athletes, like Serena Williams or Tom Brady, you are in awe of their success and the number of championships that they have won. In the business world, success is often measured by an exit - either an acquisition or an IPO and one could also argue that the IPO is many times the harder hill to climb. Well… when you look at Carol's track record, it is extraordinary. She has been part of 4 companies (yes 4) that have all gone public: Shiva Corporation, Unica, LogMeIn, and Rapid7. In addition to her success as an executive, Carol has also made a major impact as a member of the Board of Directors at several startups and as an advisor to many entrepreneurs. And, on top of all of this… Carol recently joined Glasswing Ventures as a Venture Partner. Needless to say, we had a lot to talk about - not only about all the stories from her professional career, but it was an exciting opportunity to do a deep dive into the world of marketing. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * Advice on how to build your personal brand. * Carol's background growing up and how she pivoted her career from finance to sales to marketing. * Her professional journey including lots of great stories from scaling companies. * How marketing has evolved through the years and her thoughts on the current state of B2B marketing. * Lots of great advice on how to hire marketers and how to shape your own career path to a CMO position. * And so much more.

In this episode, Hall welcomes Rick Grinnell, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that are enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. They are laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for our ecosystem. Whether they are helping their portfolio companies build the best teams, acquire their first customers or brainstorm about strategic opportunities, or scale their operations, they are there for their founders and CEOs in the good times and the bad times on their journey to success. Rick has led investments and serves on the Board of Directors of Allure Security, Armored Things, Black Kite, and Terbium Labs. As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has invested in some of the most dynamic companies in security, storage, analytics, and SaaS applications during his 20 years in the venture capital industry. In his previous role as Managing Director at Fairhaven Capital, Rick led investments and served on the Board of Directors of Digital Guardian, EqualLogic (acquired by Dell, a unicorn and fund returner), Prelert (acquired by Elastic), Pwnie Express, Resilient Systems (acquired by IBM), TrackVia (acquired by Primus Capital) and VeloBit (acquired by Western Digital). He also has deep operating experience having held senior marketing and engineering roles at Adero (acquired by Inktomi), ClearOne Communications (acquired by Gentner Communications, later renamed as ClearOne), and PictureTel (acquired by Polycom). Rick is a member of the Educational Council at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is active with the entrepreneurial programs at Harvard and Tufts Universities, and is a frequent judge at MassChallenge. Rick’s contributions to the broader community include serving as a member of the Board of the Advanced Cyber Security Center, New England’s public/private security collaboration, and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Advisers at the Museum of Science in Boston. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay. Rick has been recognized by New England Venture Network with the Community Leadership Award for his philanthropic work and contribution to the community. Rick holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from HBS. Rick advises investors and entrepreneurs and shares his investment thesis. You can visit Glasswing Ventures at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .   Rick can be contacted via email at , and via LinkedIn at .    Music courtesy of .

Join us for a conversation with Rudina Seseri of Boston-based Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture firm funding visionary entrepreneurs focused on AI and frontier technologies.

What are the risks when large companies dive into the venture capital game? To answer that question and more, we sat down with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures. Amish Parashar, Co-founder of the Yamaha Motor Exploratory Fund, also explains why corporate venture is like a two-tiered cake and how the venture capital world has responded to COVID-19.

In our latest Affectiva Asks podcast, we talk about human-centric AI with six speakers at Affectiva’s 2019 Emotion AI Summit: Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures, Dr. Cory Kidd of Catalia Health, Dana Lowell of Faurecia, John Suh of Hyundai CRADLE, David Woessner of Local Motors, and Terah Lyons of The Partnership on AI.

It's the first episode of the new style of AI in Industry, in which we spend a month at a time on a specific theme. This month is AI adoption. This week we speak with Vlad Sejnoha at Glasswing Ventures, an AI-focused VC firm. Sejnoha spent many years as the CTO at Nuance Communications. He talks to us about the table stakes AI insights the C-suite have to know and the dangers of relying entirely on consulting firms and vendor companies for these insights. In addition, Sejnoha discusses the need for a "BS-o-meter" for when someone is making a claim about AI to determine if it's real or hype. Lastly, Sejnoha discusses how he would go about choosing a first AI project.

I had the distinct honor to work for Sarah Fay in my agency career at Carat North America and Sarah is an inspirational leader in advertising, marketing and now AI investment. She has a great perspective on what areas of focus are for investing in the "intelligent enterprise" and she explores some of those insights in this episode.

Welcome to Episode 96 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures. Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the next generation of AI-powered technology companies. The firm announced its $112 million debut fund last July and Rudina has invested in companies like CHAOSSEARCH, Inrupt, Talla, Zylotech, and others. In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of topics, like: -Rudina's inspirational background story and how at the age of 15, she came to the US by herself for school and what that taught her about independence. -Her professional experience and how she got into the world of venture capital. -The story of how Glasswing got started and all the details on the firm. -The current state of AI and other sectors. -Common mistakes entrepreneurs make. -Advice for founders on trying to get early customers. -The current state of diversity in the workplace. -Plus, a lot more. On the first Monday of every month, we publish the latest edition of Career Forward. It is a roll-up of the hottest jobs in the Boston tech scene. This month's edition features over 120 jobs across all functional areas such as engineering, product, UX, sales, marketing, and more. Go to venturefizz.com/careerforward for more. Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!

Disruption isn’t an option. We can disrupt ourselves, or someone else will. Large companies face this modern dilemma every day. Enterprise businesses can embrace their own disruption by reinventing and transforming themselves ... or they can be surprisingly disrupted by an external force. Rudina Seseri laid out the podcast. She’s been in every camp: She worked at Microsoft, founded her own startups, and is now Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, where she’s funding the future of AI, ML, and predictive. In her words: “Today's large incumbents, maybe tomorrow's fallen empire.” But the answer for enterprise isn't surrendering. It’s collaboration. Find out how on this episode.

Welcome to Episode 74 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Les Yetton and Tom Hazel, Co-Founders at CHAOSSEARCH. If there's one thing to say about today's guests, it's that you'd be hard-pressed to find two more qualified people to run a startup like CHAOSSEARCH than these two co-founders. Les is an experienced executive with multiple exits under his belt at companies like DynamicOps, Neocleus, Softricity, and others. Tom, is not only a serial entrepreneur with his own level of success, but he is also an inventor of technology, which always fascinates me in terms of how people are actually creating things like, in Tom's instance, new computer science algorithms for big data. Their current startup, CHAOSSEARCH, is the first log search and analytics platform built for AWS S3. The company recently announced $9M in Series A funding, which was co-led by .406 Ventures and Glasswing Ventures with participating from Stage 1 Ventures. In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of great topics like: -Les and Tom's early background before CHAOSSEARCH, and how the two co-founders met. -The story behind how CHAOSSEARCH was founded. -All the details of the company in terms of its technology, how they are helping companies, and the market opportunity. -Why they each keep building companies. -Advice for first-time founders raising capital. -The qualities they look for when hiring. -Plus, a lot more. Lastly, we have some exciting news to share! You can now listen to The VentureFizz Podcast on Spotify! Last week, Spotify announced their belief in podcasting and will be dedicating a lot of effort to this category, thus I was excited to have our show added. You can follow up by searching for VentureFizz in Spotify. Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!

Welcome to Episode 33 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Rick Grinnell, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures. Glasswing, which is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in next-generation AI startups, just announced its $112M debut fund. Rick has a proven track record of success in the venture capital industry where many of his investments have led to an exit. His investment in EqualLogic led to an acquisition by Dell for $1.4B, which at the time, was the largest cash transaction of a venture-backed company. In this episode, we cover: -How music led him down the path to a career in the tech industry, and how he transitioned into venture capital -The story behind EqualLogic and the massive acquisition -The launch of Glasswing Ventures -The details around his area of focus in terms of making investments -Advice for founders who are looking to raise venture capital -Plus a lot more! Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!

Episode summary: There are many challenges to bringing AI into an enterprise for example the lack of skilled AI talent, or issues around data organization. In this week's episode, we focus on AI adoption in the enterprise from an investor's perspective. We expect that founders looking to sell B2B enterprise AI-products and people in enterprises who are looking for the right qualities in an AI firm which would ease integration, would find this episode relatable. We speak with Rudina Seseri from Glasswing Ventures about what are the pain points for AI integration in the enterprise and at the other end of the spectrum, some factors that are aiding AI adoption. Interested readers can see the full interview with Rudina here: https://www.techemergence.com/reducing-friction-ai-adoption-enterprise-rudina-seseri/  

Martha Goldberg Aronson '89, Corporate Director and President of North Arm Partners, Rudina Seseri '00, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, and Jenny Brandemuehl '85, Chief People Officer of Chegg, Inc.

Kendall Allen interviews Sarah Fay, Managing Director of Glasswing Ventures

Kendall Allen interviews Sarah Fay, Managing Director of Glasswing Ventures

Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, Boston's own AI focussed fund. Prior to Glasswing, Rudina was a Partner at Fairhaven Capital, sering as lead investor and Director on the Boards of Celtra, CrowdTwist, Jibo, SocialFlow and Statisfy. Before Fairhaven, she was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft where she was responsible for sourcing, structuring, and negotiating Microsoft's acquisitions and strategic investments. Rudina has served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for Harvard Business School for 4 consecutive years and is an advisor for L’Oréal USA Women in Digital.  In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Rudina made her way from Microsoft into VC with Fairhaven and then Glasswing? 2.) Why is now the time for an AI fund? What technological advances have happened to allow narrow artificial intelligence to come to the foreground in such a prominent way? 3.) Does the potential incumbency advantage in AI concern Rudina? How can founders look to mitigate this and gain access to substantial data sets? 4.) In terms of disruption cycles, where does Rudina believe we are in current cycles? How does this affect adoption cycles of technology? Why will this be the fastest ever? 5.) Predictions: How long till artificial super intelligence comes to the forefront? How long until mass adoption of driverless cars? Will this be a winner take all market? Items Mentioned In Today’s Episode:  Rudina’s Fave Blog: Paris 1919 Rudina’s Fave Book: Wait But Why As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Rudina on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. The Twenty Minute VC is proudly sponsored by Luma, Luma is the world’s first ever Surround WiFi system that brings speed, security and control to the home network. And Unlike traditional routers, Luma comes in a pack of two or three sleek devices to place in different rooms in your home. Luma then creates a mesh network that work together to create an outrageously-fast, ultra-secure Surround WiFi network.  Lastly, Luma’s app lets you easily see and control which devices, users and content are on your network. To buy your Luma, simply dead to getluma.com or amazon.com. So many problems start with your head: stress, depression, anxiety, fear of the future. What if there was some kind of exercise you could do, that would help you get your head in shape. That’s where the Headspace app comes in. Headspace is meditation made simple. The Headspace app provides guided meditations you can use whenever you want, wherever you want, on your phone, computer or tablet. They have sessions focused on everything from dealing with stress and depression, to helping you eat more mindfully. So download the Headspace app and start your journey towards a happier, healthier life. Learn more at headspace.com/20vc. That’s headspace.com/20vc.

Live Broadcast from the MADE for Broadcast booth from Adtech NYC 2016. SHIFT Innovation and disruption are the building blocks for change and they rarely happen quietly - so what is making waves of change, today? Shift is about learning from those on the forefront of emerging trends and beginning to shift your mindset on what is possible when it comes to staying connected and engaged with your evolving customer.

Live Broadcast from the MADE for Broadcast booth from Adtech NYC 2016. SHIFT Innovation and disruption are the building blocks for change and they rarely happen quietly - so what is making waves of change, today? Shift is about learning from those on the forefront of emerging trends and beginning to shift your mindset on what is possible when it comes to staying connected and engaged with your evolving customer.