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 autos and robotics, having beforehand labored at firms like Google Chauffeur (now Waymo) and MIT spinoff Optimus Experience. She joined Scale Enterprise Companions about 2 years in the past to steer their funding thesis on robotics, AI functions, and cybersecurity. Scale Enterprise Companions’ method focuses on investing on the level of execution danger relatively than technical danger, in search of firms with a working product and confirmed product-market match. Juliette emphasizes the significance of understanding the shopper ROI and enterprise mannequin as key standards.
In her position as a VC, Juliette prefers to have a deep, hands-on involvement with portfolio firms, appearing as a strategic sounding board and collaborating intently with founders to work by robust 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 worked up concerning the potentialities of AI to reinforce robotics, however cautions concerning the dangers of AI improvement 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.
Be taught 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 know-how. He seems to be for startups with a powerful understanding of the person and enterprise mannequin, noting operational challenges like scaling manufacturing and discovering the correct enterprise mannequin.
In comparison with the extra risk-averse Canadian market, Jasmeet sees the US as a greater atmosphere for robotics fundraising. He advises founders to focus on giant, underserved issues and give attention to customer support and assist.
A few of Jasmeet’s investments embrace Orange Wooden Labs, Brisk AI, and Rural Hologram. As he launches J Moon Ventures, he’s notably keen on alternatives in agriculture, building, 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 revolutionary hardware-software options.
Be taught 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
Current movies that includes web influencer Kai Cenat and his 1X EVE robotic have sparked a big dialogue concerning 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 know-how. This occasion highlights the necessity for rigorous testing and improvement earlier than deploying such robots in properties, versus the extra managed industrial environments the place they’re presently being trialed.
The ASTM F45 subcommittee is creating a brand new normal to guage the agility of cell manipulators. This normal goals to offer a standardized testing process just like automotive evaluations, permitting producers to benchmark their options and establish areas for enchancment. The proposed assessments contain monitoring a particular 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 cell robotic testing underscore the rising significance of standardized analysis strategies for advancing robotics know-how.
Locus Robotics and GEODIS have reached a serious milestone with over 10 million models picked utilizing autonomous cell robots (AMRs) at a GEODIS distribution middle in Pennsylvania. Locus’s AI-powered platform, LocusONE, optimizes employee productiveness by directing them to the subsequent 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 may acknowledge know-how and enterprise improvements within the calendar 12 months 2024, and the awards are open to any firm worldwide that produces robotics or automation.
The classes embrace:
- Applied sciences, merchandise, and providers: This class contains major or utilized analysis specializing in robotics and supporting applied sciences equivalent to movement management, imaginative and prescient, or machine studying. It additionally contains new merchandise and enterprise, engineering, or know-how providers.
- Enterprise and administration: This class covers initiatives positioning an organization as a market chief or a corporation as an essential thought chief within the robotics ecosystem. Vital mergers and acquisitions are related, as are provider, associate, and integrator relationships.
- Purposes and markets: The RBR50 may also acknowledge improvements that enhance productiveness, high quality, and cost-effectiveness, in addition to people who automate new duties.
As well as, the 2025 RBR50 awards will rejoice the next:
- Startup of the 12 months
- Software of the 12 months
- Robotic of the 12 months
- Robots for Good Award
The deadline for submissions is Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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