The $200B opportunity for Intelligent Automation Global enterprises spend $500B a year on software, with a further $1T spent annually on IT services to support this. There is also estimated to be over a billion knowledge workers globally, conservatively accounting for $20T of workforce spend. Intelligent Automation is the name for a collection of technologies including…

I count myself incredibly lucky that I get to spend every day doing a job I love. I was fortunate to join an ambitious team in a remarkable industry early in my career. Almost eight years ago, it was a team that took a chance on me, mentored and developed me, and gave me as much opportunity as I could take. …

While the transition of Enterprises from on-premise to cloud is often considered one of the more mature technology trends, it is in fact still in its early stages. A recent Goldman Sachs report estimated cloud penetration of addressable technology areas across the enterprise at 10% at the end of 2019, set to rise to 13% by the end of this year and 20% by 2023. Successful cloud applications will be built across many categories, but new collaboration tools…

After an eleven year run of economic growth, the events of the past three months have triggered a period of monumental uncertainty, simultaneously forcing paralysis in businesses across the globe. Throughout the economy, companies have had to make impossible choices in order to keep their lights on, and governments have…

Co-authored by Robin Dechant (@robindchnt) at Point Nine Capital — Sign up to Robin’s Industry 4.0 Newsletter here. Sing up to Atomico’s newsletter The Operator’s Manual here. In November, Atomico and Point Nine Capital joined forces to host 100 entrepreneurs, operators and investors at the Design Office Towers in Munich for four-and-a-half hours of discussion on “Manufacturing the Future —…

Design is a fundamental driver of society’s advancement. The design process allows us to find solutions to increasingly complex problems, and to create ever more advanced physical systems and mental constructs, which in turn enable us to grow and thrive. Through history, the design process has itself been supported by…

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 Artificial Intelligence. As a venture capital investor focussed on emerging technologies, I am used to my work day being filled with conversations…

Fifteen years ago a technology company shipped PCs, operating systems, or word-processing software. Today, technology companies are at the core of most of the world’s major industries. Look at Facebook, Uber or Airbnb, who all leveraged technology to drive fundamental change in the way things are done. Machine learning is…

Last week, Google DeepMind announced that they had open sourced Sonnet, a software library that draws on DeepMind’s internal best practices for quickly building neural network modules in TensorFlow. …