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Antoine Blondeau
Alpha Intelligence Capital
Founding Partner
Description
Operating out of Dubai (UAE) and the United States, Antoine is a visionary technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC), a $400m venture capital firm investing in deep Artificial Intelligence technology companies worldwide.
Over the past 25 years Antoine has dedicated himself to the development of Artificial Intelligence. He was the CEO of Dejima, the company that powered DARPA’s foundational CALO project that evolved into Apple’s Siri. Antoine was also President and COO of Nasdaq-listed Zi Corporation, whose predictive text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices. He was the co-founder and CEO of Sentient Technologies, a leading San Francisco Bay Area deep AI technology startup that pioneered massively-scaled Artificial Intelligence.
Antoine has held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce, and Sybase. He is an advisor to KKR, Pictet, and BITKRAFT Ventures. Antoine is also board chair of crypto.com, one of the world’s largest blockchain and cryptocurrency full-service platforms.
In addition to his fund investments, Antoine has made over 30 personal investments in deep technology firms, including SpaceX, Epic Games, Jio Platforms, Boom Supersonic, DoubleDutch (acquired by Cvent), PeerIQ (acquired by Cross River Bank), GammaNow (acquired by Animoca Brands), GoShare, KeyMe, Evolv, K Health, Inworld and Alethea. He is a founding member and General Partner of Zinc, a London-based social impact-focused technology startup incubator. Antoine started to code at age 11. He is the author of 4 patents.
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