Your Window Into the Innovation Economy

To help illustrate the diversity and promise of our Emerging Markets Fund, we wanted to turn the spotlight on two deals recently added to the portfolio: Matchwell and TripleBlind.

This series curates great content that folks interested in entrepreneurism and venture capital should explore. Some are from my own must list; others have been suggested by our community.

Today, we wanted to examine just a few of our co-investors who are leaning into emerging markets.

Companies are increasingly turning to compute-intensive applications such as AI and machine learning to improve customer experience, competitive advantage, security, and more. However, due to the growing intricacy of hardware processor models, achieving the high-performance these workloads require is difficult.

Fast Company’s annual World Changing Ideas Awards honor the businesses and organizations driving change in the world.

Earlier this week, Forbes released their third annual AI 50, a list of private, promising North American companies that are using artificial intelligence in ways that are fundamental to their operations.

In recent years, the manufacturing industry has been transformed by the introduction of robotics and digital tools. Now, the construction industry is poised for a similar transformation. However, the robotic advancements in construction have recently been stymied by issues that plague the ever-changing job site, such as labor shortages, safety concerns, and extreme building demands.

We are pleased to introduce two more companies in the Emerging Markets Fund portfolio, again illustrating the diversity of our investments.

In this whitepaper, we will focus on emerging U.S. markets. For an international view, click here to read our global emerging markets white paper.