Ashley:Thanks for having me, Spiffy! I am a venture capital investor. Through Flucas Ventures, I invest money in startups (companies that are early on in their journey, but have the potential to be large, impactful companies one day). Some of the companies that are a big part of your everyday life were once startups that once upon a time needed investment from people like me to grow their business—like Uber, Snapchat, or Facebook.
Ross:It’s great to be here, Spiffy!Inspired by nature's remarkable ability to reuse "waste",TômTexare working to build next-generation sustainable materials sourced directly from waste. Our first product, aimed at the leather market, is made from seafood wastes like shrimp or crab shells, and is 100% bio-based with no plastics or petrochemical components. We believe in a future where our clothing, accessories and other materials are circular, sustainable, and sophisticated nature-inspired biomaterials.
Ketan:Thanks for having me, Spiffy!Machine Learning is a transformative technology that has the potential to drastically improve and impact the way we live and grow. Machine Learning is when a machine learns to answer questions for you; examples can be to recognize faces in the picture, understand voice, and so on. But this technology is very hard to work with today, especially when deploying safely and reliably in production. AtUnion.ai, we are working on ways to make it easy and reliable for most users to deploy complex ideas to production and make this process repeatable. So that, if we discover a vaccine and publish a paper and accompany it with some code, it can be simply replicated by any other entity in the world.
