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OXFORD SAÏD AND OPENOCEAN TO DEVELOP AI-POWERED VENTURE CLASSIFICATION PLATFORM

Wed, 13th October 2021

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Targeted at start-up founders, investors and policymakers, the platform will
look to address market failure in technology start-up venture eco-systems.

Saïd Business School and OpenOcean, a European venture capital firm, have this
week announced the signing of a new collaboration agreement to develop a venture
classification platform. It will use artificial intelligence to classify
start-ups, building powerful insight into businesses and their underlying
technology.

The platform aims to improve transparency, reduce bias, and generally improve
the quality of decisions made by stakeholders in technology startup ecosystems.
These include venture founders looking to target an underserved client base,
funders seeking to accelerate time to identify investment targets, and
policymakers wishing to unlock bottlenecks in technology areas. 

Research for the project will be undertaken by a team across the University and
led by Oxford Saïd’s Professor Mari Sako and Dr Matthias Qian. Activities of the
team at the School are funded by the Impact Acceleration Fund from the Economic
and Social Research Council.

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> This initiative has the ambition to transform how founders, investors and
> policymakers will make decisions over the next decade.
> 
> Dr Matthias Qian
> 
> Research Fellow in Finance and AI

Announcing the news, Ekaterina Almasque, General Partner at OpenOcean, said:

‘We are delighted to partner with The University of Oxford on this journey.
Having topped the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the sixth
consecutive year, The University of Oxford has the cutting-edge research and
expertise to help make this platform a reality. For too long, key stakeholders
in the tech start-up ecosystem have relied on siloed, and incomplete
intelligence to make key decisions. There is a fundamental need for a common
language to cut through this noise. Our platform will connect data on start-ups
in a way that has never been done before, providing a shared way of classifying
new ventures, and creating a fairer and more transparent ecosystem for all
involved.’

Professor Sako said: 'The tool will be a valuable public benefit in a startup
ecosystem suffering from market failure due to genuine difficulty in assessing
early-stage startups and unwillingness to share data.'

Dr Qian adds: 'This initiative has the ambition to transform how founders,
investors and policymakers will make decisions over the next decade, to
complement their gut feel with insights derived from artificial intelligence.'


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