In Episode 176 of The Robotic Report Podcast, we characteristic an interview with enterprise capitalists Juliette Chevallier, Precept at Scale Ventures, and Jasmeet Singh founding father of JMOON Ventures.
It’s VC week right here on the podcast.
This episode options interviews with Juliette Chevallier from Scale Ventures and Jasmine Singh from Jay Moon Ventures and covers funding tendencies in robotics, emphasizing the significance of execution danger over technical danger.
Juliette Chevallier, Principal, Investments, Scale Enterprise Companions
Juliette Chevallier has a background in autonomous automobiles and robotics, having beforehand labored at corporations like Google Chauffeur (now Waymo) and MIT spinoff Optimus Trip. She joined Scale Enterprise Companions about 2 years in the past to guide their funding thesis on robotics, AI functions, and cybersecurity. Scale Enterprise Companions’ method focuses on investing on the level of execution danger reasonably than technical danger, on the lookout for corporations with a working product and confirmed product-market match. Juliette emphasizes the significance of understanding the client ROI and enterprise mannequin as key standards.
In her position as a VC, Juliette prefers to have a deep, hands-on involvement with portfolio corporations, performing as a strategic sounding board and collaborating carefully with founders to work by powerful issues. She sees her position as serving to founders navigate the operational and go-to-market challenges. Juliette notes a renewed curiosity in robotics from VCs, although she is cautious about some “wild” valuations and funding rounds, preferring bottoms-up market evaluation over top-down figures.
Juliette is bullish on the potential of robotics basis fashions (RFMs) to drive transformation, emphasizing the necessity for extra multi-modal AI fashions that combine imaginative and prescient, motion, and communication. She is happy in regards to the potentialities of AI to reinforce robotics, however cautions in regards to the dangers of AI growth burning by funding. General, Juliette’s method focuses on de-risking execution and operational challenges for robotics startups, leveraging her deep technical and enterprise experience to assist founders.
Study extra at: www.scalevp.com/
Jasmeet Singh, Founder, JMOON Ventures
Jasmeet Singh has a various background spanning robotics engineering, founding startups, and investing since 2012. As an investor at J Moon Ventures, he focuses on “bodily AI” startups – these combining {hardware}, electronics, and AI in areas like robotics, IoT, and 3D printing.
Jasmeet emphasizes the significance of fixing actual issues, not simply constructing cool expertise. He appears to be like for startups with a robust understanding of the consumer and enterprise mannequin, noting operational challenges like scaling manufacturing and discovering the precise enterprise mannequin.
In comparison with the extra risk-averse Canadian market, Jasmeet sees the US as a greater setting for robotics fundraising. He advises founders to focus on giant, underserved issues and deal with customer support and assist.
A few of Jasmeet’s investments embody Orange Wooden Labs, Brisk AI, and Rural Hologram. As he launches J Moon Ventures, he’s significantly enthusiastic about alternatives in agriculture, development, medical, and sustainability.
General, Jasmeet brings a novel perspective as an investor with deep technical experience and operational expertise in robotics. He’s targeted on backing founders fixing real-world issues with modern hardware-software options.
Study extra at: jmoon.ventures/
Present timeline
- 8:40 – Information of the week
- 26:38 – Interview with Juliette Chevallier
- 1:03:00 – Interview with Jasmeet Singh, AKA The Bearded Maker
Information of the week
Humanoid video of the week
@plugfc7 Kai’s 1X Robotic didn’t final lengthy after getting rebooted #kaicenat #1x #1xrobot #fyp @Kai Cenat
Latest movies that includes web influencer Kai Cenat and his 1X EVE robotic have sparked a big dialogue in regards to the readiness of humanoid robots for home use. In a single explicit incident (seen within the TiKTok video above), the robotic abruptly powered down and fell over, elevating issues about potential security hazards and the present limitations of humanoid expertise. This occasion highlights the necessity for rigorous testing and growth earlier than deploying such robots in houses, versus the extra managed industrial environments the place they’re presently being trialed.
The ASTM F45 subcommittee is creating a brand new commonplace to guage the agility of cellular manipulators. This commonplace goals to supply a standardized testing process much like automotive evaluations, permitting producers to benchmark their options and determine areas for enchancment. The proposed exams contain monitoring a selected path on a desk floor and inserting pegs, assessing the robotic’s precision and coordination between arm and base actions. This initiative and different ASTM F45 efforts in cellular robotic testing underscore the rising significance of standardized analysis strategies for advancing robotics expertise.
Locus Robotics and GEODIS have reached a significant milestone with over 10 million items picked utilizing autonomous cellular robots (AMRs) at a GEODIS distribution middle in Pennsylvania. Locus’s AI-powered platform, LocusONE, optimizes employee productiveness by directing them to the following choose location, decreasing wasted time and boosting effectivity. This partnership highlights the rising adoption of warehouse automation to satisfy rising e-commerce calls for and enhance operational effectivity.
2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards open for nominations
Now you can submit nominations for the 2025 RBR50 innovation awards. They are going to acknowledge expertise and enterprise improvements within the calendar yr 2024, and the awards are open to any firm worldwide that produces robotics or automation.
The classes embody:
- Applied sciences, merchandise, and companies: This class contains main or utilized analysis specializing in robotics and supporting applied sciences reminiscent of movement management, imaginative and prescient, or machine studying. It additionally contains new merchandise and enterprise, engineering, or expertise companies.
- Enterprise and administration: This class covers initiatives positioning an organization as a market chief or a company as an necessary thought chief within the robotics ecosystem. Important mergers and acquisitions are related, as are provider, companion, and integrator relationships.
- Functions and markets: The RBR50 may even acknowledge improvements that enhance productiveness, high quality, and cost-effectiveness, in addition to those who automate new duties.
As well as, the 2025 RBR50 awards will have a good time the next:
- Startup of the Yr
- Utility of the Yr
- Robotic of the Yr
- Robots for Good Award
The deadline for submissions is Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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