Fresh off the heels of his triumphant AI House Davos debut at the World Economic Forum last week, Dr. Rasmus Rothe is my guest today, discussing how to successfully found your own A.I. startup, attract venture capital and scale up!

Rasmus is a co-Founder of Merantix, the comprehensive ecosystem that finances, incubates and scales A.I. companies, transforming existing industries and spawning new ones. Merantix includes:

• A "venture studio" that builds transformative A.I. startups from the founding team up.

• A venture-capital fund that invests in A.I. startups.

• Merantix Momentum, a consulting partner for A.I. development and operation.

• The Merantix AI Campus, a slick physical location in Berlin that is Europe's largest A.I. co-working hub. It houses over 1000 entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and policymakers.

In addition to Merantix, Rasmus:

• Co-founded and co-leads the German A.I. Association, a role that has him regularly providing policy guidance to Europe’s top politicians.

• Scaled, to 150 million users, a deep-learning powered service that analyzes faces.

• Studied computer science at Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zürich, culminating in a PhD in machine vision.

Today’s episode will be of great interest to anyone interested in commercializing and scaling A.I.

In this episode, Rasmus details:

• What makes a great A.I. entrepreneur.

• How to best raise capital for your own A.I. company.

• How to ensure your A.I. company is well-defended from competitors.

• What the future of work could look like in the coming decades as A.I. and robotics overhaul industry after industry.

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