Comcast Ventures

📣🚨The #GCVPowerlist 2024 is here. And it's not just a list of names — it is a guide to different CVC models. For the last decade, we have been recognising the most inspiring leaders in the #CVC industry through our renowned annual Powerlist, which is compiled through community nominations and rigorous research by our selection committee around community engagement, deal activity, and innovative approaches to venturing. Not only are we celebrating these leaders in #corporateventuring, we're exploring key insights into what exactly makes them so successful. Congratulations from the entire GCV team to those featured! We can’t wait to celebrate with you at the #GCVSymposium 🎉 See the entire list here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gbpQD5-A Jim Adler Alokik Advani Shiri Ailon MAHDI ALADEL Daniel Ateya Roy E. Bahat John Banta Adam Bazih Marcus Behrendt Gareth Burns Amy Daniels Burr Eve Burton Dr. Nazim Cetin Andrew Chang Alex Clavel Rajeev Misra Carsten Coesfeld Rob Coppedge Thomas d'Halluin Scott Darling Terry Doyle Juergen Eckhardt Jenna Foger Jim Gable Stefan Gabriel

From shaking it up and mixing with the early-stage #founder and #VC ecosystem in Soho to reconnecting with the #Breezin crew on Pier 66, we had a blast cohosting 2024 #NYTechWeek! Big thanks to our fantastic partners & fellow cohosts: Everywhere Ventures, Eniac Ventures, The Venture Collective (TVC), Axiom Space, Four Acres Capital, Oceans, Brex, Struck Capital, TECH WEEK by a16z

🌴 Back by popular demand, the NYC Breezin’ crew threw an outdoor mixer on the Frying Pan for #NYTechWeek featuring #founders, #funders and folks from the #NYC tech ecosystem! ⛴The event was cohosted by a group that really knows how to rock the boat: Jenny Fielding from Everywhere Ventures, Nihal Mehta from Eniac Ventures, Allison Goldberg of Comcast Ventures, Cat Middleton from The Venture Collective (TVC), Tejpaul Bhatia from Axiom Space, Jenny Friedman from Four Acres Capital, Steven Rosenblatt from Oceans and Shai Goldman from Brex. 🙏 A big thanks to the partners and sponsors who ensured smooth sailing from start to finish: Vouch Insurance, Fidelity Private Shares, Axiom Space, Brex, Comcast Ventures. Sea you next year! cc Scott Hartley, Conor Harbeck, Vir Kashyap, Eileen McRae, Fran Brzyski, Tough Day, Katherine von Jan, Alberto Escarlate Oola Technologies, Amr Darwish, Brendan Mahony, Becky Yang, Benjamin Hass, Dylan Lew, Ginny Yang, Marty Ringlein, Shahriar Kabir, Vivian Graves Zeledón

Really enjoyed bringing together NYC's corporate venture capital community last night! Such an important time for the ecosystem and loved trading insights with 18 other venture groups 💪🙌 Huge *thank you* to Jon Barad and our friends at Capital One Ventures for partnering with us on a special event. Also thanks to friends who joined us from CVS Health Ventures, ADP Ventures, PayPal Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Amex Ventures, IBM, Hearst Ventures, BDMI, Synchrony, Amazon, Nasdaq, Citi, Samsung Next, J.P. Morgan, BNY Mellon and more. Excited for the next one! (cc Comcast Ventures)

Big news from Team SafeBase! We’re thrilled to share that we have secured $33M in Series B funding led by Touring Capital with participation from Zoom Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Y Combinator, Comcast Ventures, and Cerca Partners. We're on a mission to simplify security reviews, and we're just getting started. Read more about this investment here: https://hubs.ly/Q02vw_gY0

Congrats to Resemble AI on the launch of Rapid Voice Cloning! 🗣️

We're hiring for a lot of roles at Hume AI right now! We have a lot of exciting projects developing around our new Empathic Voice Interface which aims to revolutionize the way we interact with technology by understanding and responding to human emotions. We're looking for talented individuals across multiple disciplines including software engineering, UX/UI design, data science, and more to join our innovative team and help shape the future of our products. • Core Services Engineer  • Senior Data Engineer  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer  • Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer  • Senior/Staff Product Designer • Staff Distributed Systems Engineer  • Staff Frontend Engineer https://lnkd.in/epXm7RYb

We’re thrilled to announce that we raised a $50m Series B to support the launch and development of our newly released flagship product: Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first AI with emotional intelligence ✨ We’re grateful for the continued trust from EQT Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Northwell Holdings, Comcast Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, and Metaplanet. EVI is the world’s first emotionally intelligent voice AI. It accepts live audio input and returns both generated audio and transcripts augmented with measures of vocal expression. By processing the tune, rhythm, and timbre of speech, EVI unlocks a variety of new capabilities, like knowing when to speak and generating more empathic language with the right tone of voice. These features enable smoother and more satisfying voice-based interactions between humans and AI, opening new possibilities for personal AI, customer service, accessibility, robotics, immersive gaming and VR experiences, and much more. To learn more about our fundraise and the features that make EVI truly special, read our recent announcement: https://lnkd.in/gvnJhS_Y If you’re interested in working on EVI and aligning AI with human well-being, we’re hiring: https://lnkd.in/gaDnibAc

We’re incredibly excited to announce our investment in HealthSnap as part of the company’s Series B, led by Sands Capital!   Our team is thrilled to partner with Samson Magid and the rest of the HealthSnap team in this next phase of the company’s growth. To learn more on why we invested, read our blog post below. https://lnkd.in/d4TXuJH8

We're incredibly excited to announce our investment in NLX as part of the company's Series A! We are looking forward to the journey ahead and supporting their mission to transform how people interact with brands through natural language. 🚀 Learn more about why we invested ⬇️