Alexandre Momeni
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Venture Capital Investing in AI | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Antoine Blondeau, James Wise, Alexandre Momeni, Dr. Charles Roberts, Nicolas Granatino
Paris has rapidly displaced London as Europe's primary AI hub, yet investors now prioritize product-first founders who solve specific customer ROI problems over high-risk foundational model builders. The strategy is shifting toward securing competitive moats through proprietary data, particularly in biotech where clinical trial scale and regulatory frameworks offer stronger defensibility than internet-hoovered information. Despite Europe's regulatory advantages, the ecosystem faces critical hurdles including a lack of corporate early adoption, a defense tech capital gap, and the need for startups to adopt a bi-continental mindset to overcome high inference costs and impending market saturation.