Portfolio

Long-term partner Acton Capital (for whom I act as a venture partner for North-America) has just announced their first investment of their new late-stage consumer internet fund joining Index Ventures and Highland Capital Partners as an investor in Glasses Direct. UK-based Glasses Direct is Europe’s largest online prescription glasses retailer and will use the funds […]

Long-term partner Acton Capital (for whom I act as a venture partner for North-America) has just announced their first investment of their new late-stage consumer internet fund joining Index Ventures and Highland Capital Partners as an investor in Glasses Direct. UK-based Glasses Direct is Europe’s largest online prescription glasses retailer and will use the funds to expand the UK business and to support a significant push into the US market. It was the second round of financing for Glasses Direct; total amount of the roudn was £10m (about 18 million Canadian dollars).

Data / AI / ML

This November marks three years since the launch of ChatGPT. That moment brought AI into the mainstream, with large language models (LLMs) seen as the breakthrough technology powering it. Since then, innovation in AI has been relentless — perhaps one of the fastest cycles we’ve ever witnessed in tech. It’s worth pausing to reflect on […]