MMC Ventures

MMC's coaching for founders playbook is live! For founders, coaching can offer more than support—it provides clarity, fosters better decision-making, and accelerates both personal and professional growth. Whether you're scaling your startup, strengthening team dynamics, or just curious about coaching, this playbook has you covered offering insights including: ✅ What coaching is (and isn’t!) ✅ Different coaching styles tailored for founders ✅ How to choose the right coach ✅ Maximising the impact of your coaching experience Backed by the expertise of the MMC network and Jennifer Clamp from the Founder Coaches Network, this guide will equip you with all the information you need to decide if coaching is right for you. Access the playbook here: https://lnkd.in/eR4kZpei Huge thanks to the founders and operators who shared their experiences with us to help create this playbook 🙌 Timo Boldt, David Benigson, Aron Gelbard, Ben Gutkovich, Lilly Riber 🙌 #Coaching #ExecutiveCoaching #FounderCoaching

Ethical AI: Featuring the Exemplars ✨ We're excited to share our latest research which spotlights the startups and companies setting the standard for ethical AI practices: ⚖️ Builders of AI models who ensure compensation, credit and control for content creators and/or data rights holders 🚀 Providers of tech tools that enable ethical AI development These exemplars are paving the way for a future where AI works for everyone. See the full map and our analysis here: https://lnkd.in/edgJEYNx #EthicalAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

We launched our report on Ethical AI with a bang! 🚀 It was incredible to have a room full of content creators, media houses, GenAI developers and Ethical AI startups — each stakeholder offering diverse perspectives and solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing us today around compensation, credit and control for artists + data rights holders while empowering AI developers to build responsibly and affordably. ⚖️ Besides presenting our research, we were delighted to host Kane Hippisley-Gatherum (Signal AI), Alexandru Voica (Synthesia), Rafah El-Khatib (NVIDIA) and Owen Meredith (News Media Association) in an engaging and insightful panel discussion. All of this against the backdrop of a beautiful AI-generated art exhibition in collaboration with our official art partner Exactly.ai 🎨 A big thank you to all those who attended - we really enjoyed hosting you, and like the song in our report, this is just the End of The Beginning. 🎧 Link to our report in the comments 👇

Against the backdrop of copyright infringement lawsuits like The New York Times vs. OpenAI and mega-licensing deals (such as Google paying Reddit, Inc. c.$60m a year to train its AI models on Reddit data) - how is an AI startup supposed to legally and affordably train and deploy its AI models? How do content creators and data rights holders get fairly compensated, exercise control over their data and get credit for their work? Advika Jalan and Charlotte Barttelot explore this and much more in our latest report on Ethical AI: https://lnkd.in/eUPKvRT8

We are delighted to have won VC OF THE YEAR at the 2024 Growth Investor Awards! 🔥🔥🔥 The awards celebrate the role of the investment community and all those involved in supporting the growth of innovative UK start-ups. 🚀 🚀 🚀 We are proud to be part of a fantastic event - and thank you to all those who helped to make it such an enjoyable evening.

MMC portfolio company, Multiomic Health has built a computational platform leveraging AI and proprietary multi-omic data to uncover novel biomarkers (patent pending) of diabetic kidney disease within selected patient cohorts, where they can better track progression of the disease. A key discovery in breaking down the complexities of diabetes and related co-morbidities. Read more about it here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJeHT-Fu We can’t wait to see what they do next! 🚀 #datadrivenhealth #futureofhealthcare #AI #precisionmedicine

Big news from the Copper.co team as they announce the appointment of Amar Kuchinad as its new Global CEO 🎉 Amar takes over from the founder of Copper, Dmitry T. We backed Dmitry and the team for the first time in 2019. We have watched him build this exceptional business for the past five years and we know he will continue to drive excellence in his role as the board’s founder director. Copper's current success is a testament to his leadership and we're excited to see what comes next 🚀 #fintech #scaleup #digitalassets https://lnkd.in/e4vrePuZ

Interesting fireside chat with Victor Riparbelli, Co-founder & CEO of Synthesia and MMC General Partner, Mina Samaan on backing the business from its early days to its current unicorn status 🦄 MMC first backed Victor and the Synthesia team in its 2019 Seed round and the company has gone on to raise from some of the best known investors in in the world. If you're at the #GlobalInvestorSummit, reach out to Mina ✉️ #founderstories #scaleup #venturecapital #ExpandNorthStar

We're delighted to have been shortlisted for the VC of the Year at tonight's GP Bullhound Investor Allstars 🙌 Good luck to everyone else who has been nominated. We're looking forward to catching up with old and new friends at tonight's event! Look out for Bruce Macfarlane, Mina Samaan and Daniel Barrett-Nembhard representing the MMC team.

We're excited to announce our investment in the $4.6 million Seed round for Blecon 🛜 The Blecon team is leveraging all the investment in tried and tested Bluetooth technology and unlocking that potential for commercial IoT deployments. We're excited to partner with Simon Ford and the Blecom team as they bring Bluetooth's technical and commercial success to the enterprise space. Read more on the Story via Tech.eu https://lnkd.in/embcGJsm #IoT #FundingNews #CloudConnectivity #Startups