Shamillah Bankiya
Speaker
Sessions (2)
Sessions featuring Shamillah Bankiya at HumanX Amsterdam 2026
Show Me the Money: Investors' Funding Insights
Janet Thier and Anke Huiskes discuss where early-stage AI and applied deep tech funding is going, using Crunchbase data and NP Hard Ventures’ portfolio experience. Huiskes explains how her fund evaluates technical founders, avoids long-horizon pure deep tech, and uses co-investment vehicles to protect ownership as promising companies raise larger rounds.
Where Capital & Emerging AI Categories Collide
VC panelists identified security, world models, material science, drug discovery, biology, compute, chips, and energy as AI categories worth watching beyond agentic hype. They argued defensible AI companies need domain-grounded founders, narrow and useful workflows, customer love, speed of execution, and incremental progress that supports fundraising.