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Rethinking Employee Wellness Models: Atomico’s Investment in Quit Genius

Matters of wellbeing — both physical and mental — have never been more front of mind than they are today.

5 min readJul 20, 2021

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Rethinking Employee Wellness Models: Atomico’s Investment in Quit Genius

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Ben Blume

Why we invested in Pactum: A new category of Intelligent Automation

Negotiation will be the next Intelligent Automation market

5 min readApr 29, 2021

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Why we invested in Pactum: A new category of Intelligent Automation

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Ben Blume

Reflections on eight years in VC

As the VC industry itself grows and evolves, I wanted to share a few reflections on my experiences to date.

4 min readJan 26, 2021

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Reflections on eight years in VC

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Why we invested in Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform

While the transition of Enterprises from on-premise to Cloud is often considered one of the more mature technology trends, it is in fact…

5 min readJun 18, 2020

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Why we invested in Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform

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Ben Blume

After the crisis: Automate to accelerate

After an 11 year run of economic growth, the events of the past three months have triggered a period of monumental uncertainty.

4 min readMay 6, 2020

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After the crisis: Automate to accelerate

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Ben Blume

Six take-aways on Digitally Transforming European Industry

Co-authored by Robin Dechant (@robindchnt) at Point Nine Capital

6 min readNov 20, 2018

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Six take-aways on Digitally Transforming European Industry

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Why disrupting design will accelerate humanity’s progress.

Design is a fundamental driver of society’s advancement. The design process allows us to find solutions to increasingly complex problems…

5 min readAug 15, 2018

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Why disrupting design will accelerate humanity’s progress.

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Why AI is now on the menu at dinner, even with my non tech friends

A couple of weeks ago I had some friends over for dinner, and it struck me afterwards that we had spent a lot of the evening talking about…

5 min readSep 5, 2017

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Why AI is now on the menu at dinner, even with my non tech friends

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Ben Blume

“We can build these models, but we don’t know how they work”

Fifteen years ago a technology company shipped PCs, operating systems, or word-processing software. Today, technology companies are at the…

3 min readMay 22, 2017

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“We can build these models, but we don’t know how they work”

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Startup Grind

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu and others just invested $80m into every AI company

Last week, Google DeepMind announced that they had open sourced Sonnet, a software library that draws on DeepMind’s internal best practices…

5 min readApr 12, 2017

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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu and others just invested $80m into every AI company

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Ben Blume

Ben Blume

@benblume · VC @atomico · Hunting for gamechanging Enterprise founders applying hard tech innovation to massive inefficiencies and major industries

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