Yevgenia Dubinskaya is a venture partner with 13 years of experience in investing, a community member, and the 2023 partner at San Francisco Innovation Hub. We asked Yevgenia to talk about investments in AI startups and to share the strategies that help club members achieve significant profits from their investments and discover startup companies that become “unicorns” in the financial market.
“In 2024, each of us has two ways to earn significant money with artificial intelligence. The first way is to implement AI into your own company. With the help of new technologies, we can improve our business, automate processes, enhance predictive analytics, and ultimately increase efficiency and competitiveness in the market. The second way is to invest your own capital in startups that develop products based on artificial intelligence. These projects create value, improve lives, and solve various problems in fields such as medicine, education, finance, and many others. From my perspective, this second approach is the most promising. For example, in our investment portfolio, we already have companies actively using AI for breakthrough technological solutions. Here are a few companies that enable both options by offering products that optimize costs when implementing AI and also provide investment opportunities: Zeely Zeely is a Ukrainian startup that raised $2 million last year. It is an application that rapidly creates web stores and enables businesses to quickly and easily promote themselves on social media. ArkiFi AI ArkiFi AI secured $2 million in funding. It offers an AI-based financial analysis solution that helps create more accurate forecasts and strategic plans. Elai.io Elai.io raised $3 million and is a platform that utilizes AI technologies for the rapid creation of videos from text and the development of artificial intelligent avatars based on photos. There are companies making significant strides in space exploration thanks to the collaboration of teams and artificial intelligence. Here are some examples: Buddy.ai Buddy.ai raised $2.2 million and is developing an educational platform that teaches English to over a million children worldwide using a virtual voice tutor. Altris AI Altris AI secured $3 million and is revolutionizing the field of ophthalmology by aiding in the early detection of pathologies that can lead to blindness. Bavovna AI Bavovna AI received $1 million in funding and is working on innovative navigation solutions for situations where GPS signals are unstable or in places threatened by electronic warfare. These are just a small portion of the companies we have invested in, and they actively use artificial intelligence to improve the quality of life and address global challenges. Additionally, here are examples of companies where investors have seen substantial returns, and these success stories unfolded in the past year: OpenAI OpenAI secured $10 billion from Microsoft. The company is renowned for developing cutting-edge AI, including models like ChatGPT, and focuses on creating safe and ethical AI systems. Anthropic Anthropic received approximately $7 billion in funding, including $4 billion from Amazon and $2 billion from Google. The company is dedicated to building reliable and interpretable AI systems and competes with OpenAI in the field of generative AI. Inflection AI Inflection AI closed a $1.3 billion deal with participation from Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Nvidia. The startup is developing large-scale language models to enhance human interaction with AI assistants. This is how, by investing small amounts in a large number of startups, you can catch unicorns and earn your multiples. Join our community of investors to gain access to the most promising and rapidly growing projects.” Join the Future Focus Club
