Evangelos Simoudis
AI/ML Expert, Author, Managing Director at Synapse Partners, CEO Advisor, Keynote Speaker
- Role
- Founder and Managing Director at Synapse Partners
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Evangelos Simoudis
With a singular focus on #bigdata and #AI, for more than 35 years I have been working in Silicon Valley as a #VC,#entrepreneur,#corporateexecutive, and #technologist. Today I invest in early-stage startups working on enterprise applications that combine #bigdata with #AI and advise global #automotive,#travel,#logistics,#telco, and #financialservices corporations on #AI,#newmobility,#softwaredefinedvehicle, and startup-driven #innovation. I am the author of the books The Big Data Opportunity in Our Driverless Future (https://goo.gl/fyd0b6), Transportation Transformation (https://amzn.to/2Unu2AM), and The Flagship Experience (https://bit.ly/3v7UnYG). I write about AI/big data, new mobility, and corporate innovation. My investing career started in as a Partner at Apax Partners. I continued as a senior managing director at Trident Capital, and more recently at Synapse Partners, a firm I founded. I served as the board chairman of Amobee (a @Singtel company). Prior directorships include Brightroll (acquired by Yahoo!), Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Composite Software (acquired by Cisco), Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), Exelate (acquired by Nielsen), and Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM). In 2014 I was named a Power Player in Digital Media, and in 2012 as a top investor in online advertising.Before my investing and corporate advisory career, I had a 20-year career in high-technology executive roles, including two startup CEO positions. I’m a member of the following advisory boards:CaltechUSDOT Connected Cities for Smart Mobility Securing America\'s Future EnergyI hold a Ph.D. in computer science from Brandeis University in #machinelearning and large #databases, and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
Experience
Founder and Managing Director
May 2015 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US
Synapse Partners invests in early-stage startups developing horizontal and vertical enterprise software AI applications and advises large corporations on the application of AI to address strategic problems. We1. Leverage the insights we derive from our continuous interactions with top executives of Global Corporations on the strategic issues facing their companies.2. Analyze the firm\'s proprietary database of startups developing AI applications.3. Work with our firm\'s advisory board and our broader network of entrepreneurs, investors, and executives.
Education
Brandeis University
Ph.D., Computer Science
Caltech
B.S., Electrical Engineering
Skills
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Acquisition Integration
- Digital Strategy
- Strategic Partnerships
- Private Equity
- Corporate Finance
- Social Media
- Management Consulting
- Blogging
- Thought Leadership
- Growth Capital
- Competitive Analysis
- Saas
- Start-Ups
- Investments
- Business Analytics
- IT Strategy
- Strategic Planning
- Enterprise Software
- Sales
- Strategy
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Investor Relations
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Development
- Online Advertising
- Business Alliances
- Business Intelligence
- Venture Capital
- Marketing Strategy
- Valuation
- Data Warehousing
- Venture Financing
- Mobile Devices
- Angel Investing
- Financial Modeling
- Analytics
- Investment Banking
- Business Strategy
- Data Mining
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