Artificial Intelligence or AI is an innovative practice to get through. It’s not uncommon finding offices, organizations, and even people resorting to AI for meeting the job objectives. This man-made intelligence is fast bringing about a transformation in the very functioning of business, accounting firms, and even our lives. So whether it’s big data, information investigation, or distributed computing – the world of AI encompasses all these and more. Records show that a large number of AI companies that are backing up most autonomous business ventures belong to either the US, UK, or China. Raking in the profits of the growth of AI are several celebs. Much like them, if you are thinking of utilizing your resources for AI-led businesses; here are a few of them to add some inspiration.
Joe Montana – Football Maestro
The NLF quarterback Joe Montana has stayed an active member of the Liquid 2 Ventures, a major seed-stage fund, since 2015. He was aided by most of his partners, including the co-founder of Cloudant, Mile Miller, and also Michael Ma, the co-founder of TalkBin that deals with customer feedback. Way back in 2011, it was sold off to the Alphabet subsidiary Google 2011. Over the years, this venture capital company met good profits in the first couple of years. Then, it invested in seed companies like Rappi, GitLab, Crowd Cow, Captain401, and more.
Ellen DeGeneres – Actor
Ellen never really missed out on keeping a tab on some of the hottest trends and start-ups. An actress, host, and entrepreneur by her right, she found her true calling when Ellen Digital Ventures acted as the umbrella brand in the TV franchise to several digital, gaming, and social audiences. While her company made a joint venture with Warner Bros., she was busy with the music app – Chosen. Over time, Ellen Digital Ventures created Ellen’s Dance Off and EllenTube.
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor
As much as he has stunned the rest of the world with his acting prowess, his list of investments is pretty long! One of the rare actors in Hollywood, he liked staying updated with all such responsibilities. His latest investment is that in MindMaze that helped the actor’s basic portfolio to devote money. It’s only five years old and several people have devoted time after realizing that the scope of specializing in virtual reality technology is immense.
Few other forces to reckon with that makes his investments impressive, include Qloo (from the start-up Rubicon Global), grocery items, and even the sustainable food company alongside the start-up titled Rubicon Global. At only five years old, the Swiss company MindMaze deals extensively with virtual reality technology. As per data obtained from Swiss technology and virtual reality in February 2016 itself, it scored no less than a $100 million funding round where the valuation was pout roughly around $1 billion.
Bono – Musician
The talented musician who dons many hats is also an entrepreneur for what is popularly known as The Rise Fund, an investment firm. Bono has secured the attention of this work, besides being a successful singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and now a businessperson. Last year, he began The Rise Fund with the private equity firm TPG that raised about $2 billion to emphasize projects (mostly commercial) that had a significant social or environmental effect.
Kobe Bryant – Basketball player
At age 37, the former player from the Lakers retired, after having a successful run for 2 decades with the LA team. In his scion innings, he chose to become a venture capitalist. He paired up with the investor Jeff Stibel and thereby launched a $100 million fund to aid tech-based companies. Since 2013, the duo has kept working and made deals with no less than 15 companies!
Elton John – Musician
The cultural artificial intelligence data platform, Qloo has itself raised about $6.5 million. Added to that was the funding from AXA Strategic Ventures and Elton John. The company is new in origin and has developed multiple tastes in consumer choices for categories like TV, films, books, podcasts, fashion, travel, and dining, to name a few. The company has also opened up an app dealing with cultural recommendations. Easy to download and use, its focus lies on selling the data to few other businesses too.
The rise of fake celebrities created by AI clearly does not move your favorite celebrities. They are apparently not fearing a robot apocalypse soon. Are you gonna jump on the bandwagon and invest in futuristic technologies too?
