Interview with Ash Fontana - Ventures Investor and Author
Channel: Robotics Australia Group
Date: 2021-06-14

~~~ A friendly chat with an AI first VC & Author  ~~~

In this episode we speak with Ash Fontana, an AI first ventures investor & author based in the Silicon Valley. Ash has been successful in the startup game as an investor and as a founder for quite a while now. Ash is the Managing Director of an extremely well known and successful VC in San Francisco that specialises in investment in AI-first companies with B2B business models. Ash is extremely well positioned to provide meaningful commentary on how to build and run a successful AI underpinned company. His ‘manual’ for how to build a successful and investible deep tech company – The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence – should be on all of our bookshelves. Ash has very kindly given us some of his time to provide insights into the landscape from a very successful VC’s perspective - click below to listen and remember to leave comments!

This talk is part of our ongoing engagements with the Australia relevant ventures community to challenge the belief that is ‘sooo hard’ for Australian companies seeking capital investment in robotics to secure support and that venture capital in Australia won’t fund the world leading technologies emerging right here.

Robotics Australia is committed to unpacking and challenging this for our Network of members over a series of casual chats with key players to gauge the realness of the claim that funds and appetite to invest into homegrown technologies exist, and to get direct feedback into how we can make Australian robotics opportunities more investable!