After Faculty's acquisition by Accenture, we’re sharing an excerpt from a conversation we had with Marc Warner for our Voices That Matter Red Book series.Marc reflects on the very first meeting with Saul Klein in 2016, when Faculty was still called ASI Data Science and the founding slide deck listed four PhDs and one CTO described simply as “Terrific Guy”. Saul wanted to invest within minutes. Responding to the idea that company-building was just a matter of hiring more academics, Marc said blun ...

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We invested in Faculty, one of Europe’s leading AI companies, at seed ten years ago, in a team of just ten people. Today they announced their acquisition by Accenture. Back then, while modern AI was in its infancy within research labs, Marc Warner was focused on something harder and more important: making AI useful in the real world whilst ensuring it was deployed safely and responsibly.From tackling online terrorist propaganda with near-perfect accuracy, to supporting the NHS through the pandem ...

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