Bates: Angel investors lack domain knowledge needed to fund seed AI startups
Alex Bates · 1357 How He's Betting on the Future of AI · Apr 12, 2019 · at 9:16
Alex Bates, founder of MTEL and angel investor, discusses why he is focusing on building AI angel syndicates and incubators rather than running a single company.
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“One of the challenges we face, and I've seen other companies face, is for angel investors, there's a lack of knowledge to get the confidence to invest in these seed stage startups, and then startups have trouble connecting”
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