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Jon Sakoda
Jon Sakoda is the Founding Partner of Decibel Partners, an independent venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies. He has a background as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, having previously served as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates, where he led investments in the consumer internet and enterprise software sectors.
Before his venture capital career, Jon co-founded IMlogic, Inc., where he held the roles of Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Products until its acquisition by Symantec Corporation. He also worked in the private equity group at Goldman Sachs, investing in software, internet, and communications sectors.
Jon graduated from Harvard College and is known for his commitment to helping startups identify their unique advantages. He is also passionate about spending time with his family and exploring new adventures together.123
Highlights
We were excited to host many AI industry leaders and investor friends from the US and Singapore to discuss the “New Frontiers in AI” this week
How can a country innovate and regulate at the same time? We were very grateful to be joined by Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive of Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), and Oliver Jay, Managing Director of OpenAI International, who discussed the early successes seen across finance, healthcare, and public sector as AI has moved from pilot to production and is ready for ubiquitous use
Will frontier foundation models continue to scale, or are we reaching a plateau? Many thanks to my partner @FanaHOVA and @latentspacepod host for dispelling the myths of the AI scaling laws
We expect many big announcements in the coming months which will remind us that we are still in the early innings of unleashing the power of foundation models, large AND small. Thank you all for a great event!
We hosted our annual AI Pioneers Summit this week to celebrate the technical leaders at the forefront of deploying AI and LLMs in production today! 🚀
Over 170 notable product and engineering execs from 136 companies gathered to celebrate this year’s award winners:
Expanding the Frontier of LLMs Olivier Godement (@oliviergodement), Head of Product, API, Open AI
Innovation in Open Source AI Kari Ann Briski (@karibriski), VP Gen AI Software, Nvidia Sergey Edunov (@edunov), Director of Engineering, Gen AI, Meta Lin Qiao (@lqiao), Founder and CEO, Fireworks AI
Full Stack AI Innovation Ramine Roane, CVP for AI, AMD Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm), CEO, Modular AI Vipul Ved Prakash (@vipulved), CEO, Together AI
Scaling AI Agents Mike Conover (@vagabondjack), Founder and CEO, Brightwave Aatish Nayak (@nayakkayak), Chief Product Officer, Harvey AI Subho Mukherjee (@subho_mpi), Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Hippocratic AI
Creating ROI in Gen AI T.R. Vishwanath, Founder and CTO, Glean Aparna Chennapragada (@aparnacd), CVP, Microsoft Clara Shih (@clarashih), CEO, Salesforce AI
Gen AI Exit of the Year Yaron Singer, Founder and CEO, Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco) Jeetu Patel (@jpatel41), Chief Product Officer, Cisco DJ Sampath (@djsampath), VP of AI Products, Cisco
Consumer AI Products of the Year Tony Jebara (@TonyJebara), VP of Engineering and Head of AI/ML, Spotify Uzma Barlaskar (@uzmabarlaskar), Director of Generative AI, WhatsApp
Founders' Choice Award: Building Our Silicon Brain Drew Houston (@drewhouston), Founder and CEO, Dropbox Hiten Shah (@hnshah), Founder and CEO, Nira (acquired by Dropbox)
This year we also announced the launch of "Win AI", our community for women pioneers in AI that are paving the way for the next generation of female technologists 🔥
We look forward to celebrating and expanding this community with @latentspacepod @swyx @FanaHOVA in the years to come!
