Weber: Amex Ventures focuses on credit, fraud, AI, infrastructure, and cybersecurity
Kevin Weber · Empowering Innovation: The Intersection of Corporate Venture Capital and AI-Driven Startups · May 14, 2025 · at 3:42
Kevin Weber of Amex Ventures discusses his background and outlines the investment focus of his enterprise tech team.
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“Joined the team here at Amex Ventures to help build out our enterprise tech and software investing team. And so for us on the investing side today, focus a lot of my time around credit and fraud. AI and machine learning infrastructure, cybersecurity, and a host of other domains that you know, Amex might be interested in, you know, really as the buyer of some of these softwares.”
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