What the head of IBM’s $500 million AI and quantum venture fund is looking for in a startup

Emily Fontaine is the global head of venture capital at IBM. The company’s venture fund, IBM Ventures, is a $500 million fund currently focused mostly on AI and quantum computing. So far it has made 23 investments in companies including Hugging Face (tools for machine learning), Not Diamond (optimizes the choice of AI model on a task-by-task basis), Unstructured (which structures data for LLMs), QEDMA (error correction in quantum computing), and Reality Defender (deepfake detection software). Fontaine tal ...