Sight Machine | Icebreaker

Sight Machine | Icebreaker

Members

Michael Goldman

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Sofware Engineer

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Director of Customer Outcomes at Sight Machine

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Crafting with Light

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Machine Health & Digital Manufacturing

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As an advisor, coach, and fractional CPO/CTO, I work with early-stage startups and founders, helping them to build their product development organizations. I also work with investors and corporates, performing technical due diligence for investments and acquisitions. I am a product and engineering leader with 30 years of experience as a software engineer, systems architect, engineering manager, product manager, technologist, founder, advisor, mentor, consultant, and investor. My technical experience includes architecting, designing, and building massively scalable, highly reliable server systems and implementing Internet protocols and database query processors. My technical interests include semi-structured databases, distributed systems, and digital identity infrastructures. My business experience includes raising funds, organizational design, recruiting, establishing and maintaining high-level partner relationships, due diligence for acquisitions, preparing companies for sale, internal entrepreneurship, and negotiating commercial contracts. My industry experience includes enterprise software, internet infrastructure, manufacturing, networking, telecommunications, healthcare, education, and games. In my career, I have been fortunate enough to participate in 16 exits with a total transaction value of $8.3 billion. And as a counterpoint, I have also been fortunate enough to learn from the 14 companies that I had a hand in helping fail. I spend most of my time mentoring entrepreneurs, coaching founders, developing leaders, building product development teams, and advising startups.

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Co-Founder and CEO @ Sight Machine Industrial data, AI, and transformation

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Chief Investment Officer | Jump Crypto

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PhD Engineer / Scientist → VC → Startup Founder & Helper

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AI for the real world

Ludovic Copéré

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Short version: Sparkles in the dark. Long(er) version: • 17-year experience in venture capital, innovation catalysis, strategic partnerships, new business creation and corporate development. • Natural leadership and successful track record in driving high-level negotiations and managing complex, sensitive cross-border investments and projects. • Fine-grained knowledge of global entertainment, media, automotive, financial, electronics, semiconductor and enterprise competitive ecosystems. • Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp, study and synthesize multi-dimensional market landscapes, competitive analysis, diving in their underlying technology, financial and Intellectual Property (IP) dynamics. • Strong analytical skills comfortable with deeply abstract and conceptual reasoning, with natural eagerness to think and act creatively for shaping new business opportunities. • Agile interpersonal and smooth communication skills, ability to influence, evangelize and rally internal/external stakeholders in Japan, US and Europe. • Driven by international challenges and multicultural environments, prolonged successful experiences across Japan, USA, Sweden, UK and France. • Proficiency in English, French, Swedish and Spanish. Working knowledge and undergoing learning of Japanese (JLPT/日本語能力試験 level 3).