by Atscale Operating Partners | Jun 7, 2024 | Asking CEOs, Perspectives
Par Tristan Vie, VP Sales at JobTeaser As we stride into the latter half of 2024, startup founders find themselves navigating an environment not vastly different from the previous year. Uncertainty remains a constant companion, challenging the resilience and...
by Atscale Operating Partners | Jun 7, 2024 | Asking CEOs, Perspectives
Par Saskia Fiszel, Founder & COO at Virgil For Series A startup founders and beyond, navigating the current landscape to finish 2024 on a high note requires two seemingly contradictory — yet logical — approaches. For one thing, we all have now shifted the focus...
by Atscale Operating Partners | Jun 7, 2024 | Asking CEOs, Perspectives
Par Peter-Paul de Leeuw, Founder & CEO at Amberscript Ever since LLMs gained popularity, the defensibility of AI-first startups has been questionable as LLM AI APIs are available to well-established SaaS players with existing competitive advantages. I am...
by Atscale Operating Partners | Jun 7, 2024 | Asking CEOs, Perspectives
Par Jean-Bernard MELET, CEO at Eldo I think that everybody is now looking to reach profitability and efficiency towards growth. What allowed us to get close to it in 2023 is very counterintuitive as we managed to do it due to an M&A synergy and international...
by Maya Noël | Jun 7, 2024 | Perspectives
Par Europe had warned us when the new Commission was set up, back in 2019, that it wanted to make Europe “fit for the Digital Age”, to quote Ms Vestager’s title position. Indeed, the European Union has been extremely active on that front in the last five years, with...
by Marc Fournier | Jun 7, 2024 | Perspectives
Par Venture capital has long been a driving force behind innovation and entrepreneurship, providing crucial funding to promising startups. Recent years have offered an overabundance of cash, creating several market distortions that are being corrected. In the first...