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“Investing in AI is as much about assessing the underlying technology as it is about understanding people. I gravitate towards applications that amplify and augment human abilities.”

Simon Menashy

General Partner

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“Investing in AI is as much about assessing the underlying technology as it is about understanding people. I gravitate towards applications that amplify and augment human abilities.”

Simon Menashy is a Partner at MMC. He specialises in AI-related investments, and has led deals such as Ably, Senseye and Signal AI.

Simon joined MMC in 2011. He is a member of the Investment Committee and co-leads the investment team. As one of the most active AI investors in the European early-stage venture market, Simon has led, sponsored or worked on close to 150 deals with more than 60 companies over the past decade.

He believes AI innovation will happen at multiple layers of the tech stack, and is focused on investments from the application layer down to the data pipelines that feed the models. For more details, see Simon’s recent blog post on the topic here.

Simon’s background is in tech and media strategy consulting at Deloitte. He holds a degree in Physics and Space Research and previously started an IT consulting business.

Outside of work, his favourite activities are travel, strength training, hiking, scuba diving and playing with shiny tech.

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