Patents are often misunderstood in the startup world. In this practical guide, Alchemist mentor Will Allen breaks down how founders should think about patents—as strategic assets with defined roles, real costs, and market-tested value. Patents as Business Tools: Property, Roles, and Market-Tested Value
In this episode of the Alchemist Influencer Series, Ravi sits down with Gnani Palanikumar, who shares insights into why AI projects stall and practical strategies for overcoming enterprise adoption barriers, drawing on 30 years of deployment experience.
The latest Alchemist Accelerator influencer series features Vibhor Rastogi from Citi Ventures, who discusses enterprise pricing challenges for agentic AI startups. As autonomous AI agents increasingly handle business processes from IT to customer service, traditional SaaS pricing models no longer suffice.
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In this Influencer Series episode, Sidney Rabsatt, Chief Product Officer at MindsDB, explores why enterprise AI’s biggest opportunity lies in bridging structured and unstructured data to unlock faster insights without years-long data migrations.
Alchemist Chicago — the deep tech accelerator partnership between the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Alchemist — today announced the startups selected for Phase 2 of its inaugural cohort.
Salesforce AI leader Manjeet Singh breaks down where enterprise AI is delivering real ROI, where it fails, and how founders can build defensible AI startups.
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In this episode of the Alchemist Influencer Series, Ravi sits down with veteran technologist Marcelo Calbucci, drawing on three decades of experience at Microsoft and Amazon to cut through the AI hype.
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In this episode of the Alchemist Influencer Series, Ravi sits down with Silicon Valley legend Amr Awadallah, co-founder and former CTO of Cloudera, to unpack why 95% of enterprise AI initiatives fail and what it really takes to build AI that survives beyond the demo stage.