Trends on why you should invest in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Internet of Things.

1. TRENDS & WHY INVEST IN VR/AR, AI & IoT
Net Jacobsson
Partner
Sparklabs Global Ventures

3. 2016
“Over $1.8 billion was
invested in 2016 alone &
by the majority of the big
players such as Apple,
Google, Facebook,
Microsoft, Samsung &
HTC”

4. NEXT PHASE
COMPUTING
OF

5. “The next evolution
of Storytelling”

6. THE NEW
UX/UI FOR
EVERYTING

7. “The life is beautiful” – achi
“90 million users by 2017”
“$80 billion market
by 2020”

8. REALITY CHECK!
HAVE THEY
BEEN SMOKING?

9. 9
Most AR/VR experience have been basic
Limited Quality
Google Cardbox 360 Video
Pokemon Go
Samsung Gear VR
SnapChat Filters

10. HTC VIVE OculusPlayStation VR
More Expensive Headsets
2016 was the breakthrough year for HTC, Oculus & PlayStation

11. TRENDS
2017

12. TRENDS
2017

13. “Google Daydream to
become the standard
OS for VR’
“Handsets are going to
be Daydream Ready’
“Explosion of apps &
content’

14. TRENDS
2017
AR is going to become the killer
app for mobiles
Explosion of 360 content
VR will shake up
retail

15. TRENDS
2017
Social Presence the killer app!

16. SO WHAT ARE VC’S
INVESTING IN?

17. AR HMD
mosesma
Solutions & Services
Video
Peripherals

18. DoubleMe

20. AI
The second industrial revolution

21. “Take X and add AI”
“The formula for AI”

22. “WE’RE ON
THE EDGE
OF THE
GOLDEN
AGE (OF
AI)”Jeff Bezos, Amazon.

23. I THINK
ADVANCES
IN AI CAN
HELP SAVE
PEOPLES
LIVES
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

24. “In the long run. I think
we will evolve in
computing from a
mobile-first to an AI-first
world”
Sundar Pichar, CEO Google

25. OVER 500 STARTUPS
IN FUNDS IN 2016
RAISED $5B

28. WHAT AREAS ARE HOT?

29. Hot Areas
Fintech & Insurance (Lemon) Health (iCarbonX)Auto (Gett)
$300M by Wolksvagen

30. Hot Areas
Digital Assistants (Alexa)) Ads, Sales, CRM (InsideSales)Cyber (Cylance)
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31. 300% INCREASE IN
AI IN 2017
INVESTMENT IN

33. 300% INCREASE IN
AI IN 2017
INVESTMENT IN

34. 25 B ILLION CONNECTED
BY 2020
IOT DEVICES

40. Portfolio Highlights:
PetNet
$10Million USD
SERIES A
Petnet raises $10M round led by Petco

42. The Power of SparkLabs:
SparkLabs IOT & Smart City Accelerator
6-month long Internet of Things program for seed to early-stage entrepreneurs from anywhere across the globe. This
program will be located in Songdo, South Korea. Also selected startups will benefit from support by the Cisco Global
Center of Excellence (GCoE), Cisco Innovation Center at Songdo to further mature their solutions with local technical
support available under the GCoE’s Solution Incubation Program.
• $35 billion smart city built from ground up.
• 2nd largest private real estate development in history.
• 80,000 apartment units
• Currently over 36,000 residents
• 50 million square feet of office space and 10 million
square feet of retail space
• SparkLabs is the exclusive IoT test bed partner
SONGDO:
Smart City
of the Future

43. The Power of SparkLabs:
Exclusive Startup Partnership
Songdo will be an amazing test bed for consumer, industrial, hardware, and other IoT startups. Our 1st
batch launch in November 2016, and has 14 startups (5 from the U.S., 4 from South Korea, 1 from
Ireland, 1 from Switzerland, 1 from India, 1 from Australia, and 1 from Taiwan) with an average raise of
$2.8 million prior to joining our program.
Internet
of things
Open
Data
Smart
Agriculture
Smart
Home
Smart
Grid/Energy
Smart
Government
Smart
Retail
Smart
Health
Smart
Mobility
SONGDO:
Smart City
of the Future

44. The Power of SparkLabs
DemoDay5 became the largest startup demo day in the world with over 1,400 attendees.
DemoDay6 had over 1,500 and DemoDay7 this past June 22, 2016 had over 1,800 with attendees
from the U.S., China, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and others.
In 2016, we are expanded our accelerator with new IoT & Smart City program based in Songdo,
Korea. In 2017, we are launching SparkLabs Beijing and a new FinTech program in Hong Kong.
* Not a complete breakdown
18
SparkLabs Global Ventures Fund I
Demoday NO.7
Participants total
1834
Government &
Academia 224
358
746
40
Media
Investors
Startups &
Corporates
* Not a complete breakdown
Limited Partner Update

45. SparkLabs Global
Team
Palo Alto Bernard Moon
London Frank Meehan
Tel Aviv Net Jacobsson
Mumbai HanJoo Lee
San Francisco Rob DeMillo
Seoul Jimmy Kim
HanJoo Lee
Eugene Kim
San Jose Peter Chang
SingaporeJay McCarthy
Hong KongWilliam Chu
Stockholm