Alexandre “Alex” Lazarow is a Director at Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm based in San Francisco. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations, and an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. […]
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What Type Of Innovator Do You Want To Be?
Today it feels like like every day we learn about an incredible new technology, product or, service that was supposed to be a futuristic concept, but now is, “coming soon.” Nearly 20 years ago, just before the internet bubble in 2000-2001, new online concepts were being introduced at a dizzying pace, and today, during what […]
China and the Bay Area face off over AI
From robot cars to virtual assistants to algorithms for streaming video, advances in artificial intelligence are driving innovation and money. A lot of money. The competition between the world’s two premier hotbeds for artificial intelligence is really a race for who gets to define the future. […]
Denis Barrier on globalization
Denis Barrier is a global investor and an amazing guy. His firm invests in the US, Europe, and Asia and we talked about our borderless future and how to spot innovation before it takes off. […]
Denis Barrier discusses the latest that some Chinese tech firms have to offer at CES 2019
CGTN’s Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Denis Barrier, co-founder and CEO of Cathay Innovation about Chinese technology showcased at CES 2019. […]
The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies
While Westerners often associate the invention of calculus with 17th century European luminaries like Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, its theoretical foundations actually stretch back millennia. Fundamental theorems appear in ancient Egyptian work from 1820 BC, and later influences sprout from Babylonian, Ancient Greek, Chinese and Middle Eastern texts. […]
InsurTech Investor Panel: It’s About Finding Pain Points, Trimming Fat
A panel of insurance investors and market researchers report that investing in insurtech firms has reached an inflection point as investors and insurers build out early ventures and look to new technologies and risk sectors. Register to be notified of new A.M. BestTV episodes. […]
Financial Inclusion- Innovation Meets Social Responsibility
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‘The future will be won or lost on this technology. I’m very concerned’: The co-founder of a $9 billion company warns that China is on track to dominate the US in AI
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Meet our advisors: Denis Barrier, co-founder and CEO of Cathay Innovation
Denis Barrier started his career at Orange as a researcher working on quantum optics and physics around hardware and electronics. Soon after, the company began encouraging researchers to start companies using their work, with the aim of funding these spin-off startups. “I joined Orange’s investment arm Innovacom to create this seed capital program,” Denis said. […]