🐝 Our April Update: Workplace Productivity & AI in Ops
Hello friends,
We hope April is treating you well, so far!
We have been diving into the subject of Workplace Productivity a lot – AI or not – lately, and are happy to share some results of our activities and thinking on it in this Monthly update. Our advice: Do not obsess so much over whether they are 'AI' or not - it's far better to focus on how ❓ tools can support you to be more productive and achieve your goals 🎯 (full access below).
Needless to say, AI was also at the centre of many a conversation and stage session in San Diego 🇺🇸 last week, where our team enjoyed being part of both the ASU+GSV Summit and their inaugural new addition the AIR Show. And, back in London, our Meetups co-hosted with Mindstone focusing on the Learning & Development side of AI are becoming a regular feature on the events calendars for all keen to learn more about learning with AI.
We hope you’ll enjoy our Insider update, which also includes:
Selected News from the Portfolio – Approved by the OECD and some free learning events
Insights – Workplace Productivity Market Map and Integrating AI in your Ops
Events – See you at the EU-Startups Summit?
Have a great rest of your Thursday!
Best,
The Brighteye Team ☀️
📣 SELECTED NEWS FROM THE PORTFOLIO
🛠️ Shakers on OECD Trustworthy AI Tools List
With over 3000 registered talents and the trust of more than 450 companies, Shakers 🇪🇸 represent one of the largest communities in the European freelancing landscape. As such, our portco has pioneered a novel AI-based matchmaking system to connect 🖇️ freelance talents and corporate project needs, and it is really cool to see that this system makes it on to the OECD Catalogue of Tools & Metrics for Trustworthy AI. Way to go, team Shakers!!
💡 Explore and learn with Portfolio events
All the companies in our portfolio are, by definition, focusing on helping people learn and 🍏 grow. In addition to selling their products, most of them also offer a wide range of events that are free and open for everyone to explore new skills and knowledge. In a small selection for the coming weeks, why not check out LabLabee’s webinar on How to unlock 5G career opportunities on Thursday 2 May, Genially’s Coffee with Chief Learning Officer Oyindamola Ojo -Eriamiatoe at Beccamola on Monday 29 April or sAInaptic’s webinar on AI in education, beyond chatGPT and LLMs, also on Thursday 2 May?
🔎 INSIGHTS
🐝 Workplace Productivity Market Map
The emergence of tools and solutions that boost productivity has revolutionised how businesses operate, offering unparalleled opportunities to streamline workflows and optimise resource allocation across teams – in people, marketing, ops, product, finance, design and others.
We proudly present our new market map on workplace productivity, offering an overview of the landscape of workplace productivity tools, categorised along two key axes: individual-focused to organisation-focused and automated to manual functionality.
✅ We cover:
1. An introduction to workplace productivity ⚙️
2. The market map 🗺️
3. Areas we find exciting ✨
4. The rising tide of AI in the workplace 👩⚕️
5. Thoughts on how startups can think about integrating AI in their ops! 🪡
🗂️ Integrating AI into your ops?
If you are a startup and not thinking about integrating AI into your ops, you probably should be...
Expanding on the final section of the above paper, we recently did a session with our portfolio companies on this very subject and are happy to share the AI-assisted (of course) 📝 write-up, which covers:
🔹 How to choose which LLM to use
🔹 How to approach using AI in your People team
🔹 How to approach using AI in your Marketing team
🔹 How to approach using AI in your Product team
🔹 What skill set is required for someone to successfully integrate AI into ops?
🔹 Measuring the return on investment (ROI) for the integration of AI in your ops
🔹 Overview of tools by category
🎪 EVENTS
⚡️ The Latest AI in L&D Meetup in London
This week saw the third in our series of AI in L&D Meetups in London that we are proudly partnering with Mindstone to present. In the usual fashion we were treated to hands-on presentations on Practical AI Applications in the Learning & Development space. See the recordings here:
And it all ended with a bit of Networking with a Purpose with L&D professionals, AI Experts and innovators, of course.
🗓️ The next event is scheduled for May – make sure to follow us on LinkedIn for details on when & where and registration.
🇪🇺 Let’s Meet at the EU-Startups Summit?
In early May we will be attending the EU-Startups Summit in 🇲🇹 Malta, where around 2000 European founders, innovators and investors from the startup scene will be, too. Please reach out to Hege, our Head of Community (ht@brighteyevc.com), if you would like to connect in person on 9-10 May!
📸 Looking back - a quick ASU+GSV recap
It was brilliant to connect with new people in the global Edtech community, as well as catching up with existing friends and partners. A highlight was, of course, the Transatlantic Mixer 🎈we co-hosted with our European investor colleagues at Educapital, Emerge, Mediahuis Ventures, Sparkmind.vc and Amanda Nolen. Near 300 attendees of founders, investors and the wider ecosystem from both sides of the Atlantic shared an evening of conversations, food & drink.
Dinner with our portfolio companies Create Academy, Oneday, Skiller Whale & TeachFX, joining a room full of inspiring investor females at the ElleCap.org lunch reception and throwing in a bit of beach/surf time made the week totally fab!
