SBT Investor Spotlight - Siddharth Gupta, Managing Director, Samsung Ventures - Full conversation

Описание: In this installment of the C Suite Spotlight, President Justin Kinsey talks with Siddharth Gupta, Managing Director of Samsung Ventures America.

Siddharth is Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America, where he leads investments in cutting-edge sectors including semiconductors, AI, datacenter infrastructure, display technologies, and sustainability.

Before stepping into the world of venture capital, he spent over a decade as a technologist, designing chips and architecting systems at some of the world’s most respected hardware companies. His journey began as an ASIC engineer at Maxim Integrated and from there, he joined Apple as a platform architect, playing a key role in developing early-stage products that spanned across iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBook, and Apple TV.

After a successful track record chip design, Siddharth wanted to pivot his career to leverage the lessons he learned as an engineer to help drive the semiconductor industry forward from a business perspective. A fortuitous opportunity came up to work with an early-stage investment firm, and the rest is history.

Now, he's helping the next generation of deep tech founders succeed and serves on the boards or as a board observer for a range of innovative startups including EnCharge AI, Figure, Ionomr Innovations, and Oculii.

Here is the list of questions and timestamps:
00:00 - Opening
00:34 - Can you give the audience an overview of your career background?
01:26 - Was there a particular moment in your life when you knew you wanted to become an engineer?
03:08 - Was there an inflection point in life when you recognized you wanted to take your career in the direction of investing?
05:16 - Are there certain signals or key factors that you focus on when performing diligence on a potential investment?
07:03 - How do you assess founders to determine their likelihood of success?
09:21 - As an investor, you have to be able to see farther ahead tan your competitors. Are there certain ways you coach the founders you work with to do the same?
12:14 - We are likely going to see more acqui-hire situation in the AI/ML hardware space. Can you give our audience some insight about how this affects primary investors?
15:18 - Are there certain traits that you have found, or seen, among the most successful startups founders you have worked with?
18:30 - When you're evaluating a company to invest in, what steps do you take to assess the technical talent of the existing team and how much weight does that carry on whether you invest or not?
19:59 - What advice do you give founders that are approaching "Phase 2" of growth and getting ready to scale their team through rapid hiring?
21:50 - AI will likely continue to dominate headlines... that said, what technologies do you believe have the potential to become "the next AI"?
24:47 - Do you have a memorable story about spotting a startup before they gained broad recognition. If so, what drew you to them?
26:53 - Can you share about how you support the founders and companies that you advise, beyond just capital?
29:03 - What advice would you give to a founder who is looking to get their company funded? And is there anything you would caution them to guard against?
31:21 - If someone wanted to reach out to discuss funding or some other form of partnership, how should they reach out to you?
31:01 - Signoff

For more details about the work that Siddharth and the team at Samsung Ventures are doing, visit:
https://www.samsungventure.co.kr/engl...

You can find and request to connect with Siddharth on LinkedIn:
  / siddharthgg  

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