2 points to kick off with:

Freemium and subscription are my favourite business models
AI, especially generative one is a next (if not current) big deal

PONS is encompassing both.

Concept:

I like the idea of an integrated value chain for the digital economy that encapsulated 3 component making this project quite interesting:

AI (On demand creation of digital collectible)
Blockchain (Multichain instant payments)
Asset applicaton/Utlization (the use of collectibles in marketing and gaming)

Allowing merchants  use the web app to turn phone-taken product images into brand-compliant marketing content 100X cheaper and in seconds, then allowing the content to be shared across WEB 2 and 3 (Social media/metaverse)

Entities can team up with creatives/influencers using AI, WEB 2 and WEB 3

Incubation and acceleration:

PONS.ai is accelerated by HKAI Lab (supported by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund and HKSTP), Outlier Ventures and NVIDIA Inception; incubated by Sequoia China and HKXF's "X-PLAN 19"; and recently featured in Google Web3, CES, Web Summit, Startup Grind Global, Art Central and K11 MUSEA.

These are big names with big promises.

Team:

Great team of AI engineers with PhDs.

Public and Media exposure
Despite their early stage they have already been features across local media in Hong Kong and making some splash organically.


Listed B2B clients:

There are stellar companies that are listed on the deck that are expected to be their clients, if they indeed succeed in onboarding them that would be grand slam

Deck:

Informative and yet seems to be in need of more structure work making it easy for Partners or VCs to make better sense of their offering, product market fit, detail how 3 pricing policies are going to work for B2C, B2B and user acquisition strategy, details on nature of partnerships.

Pons is an AI web app that turns phone-taken product images into brand-compliant marketing content.

Pons

2 points to kick off with:

Freemium and subscription are my favourite business models 
AI, especially generative one is a next (if not current) big deal

PONS is encompassing both. 

Concept:

I like the idea of an integrated value chain for the digital economy that encapsulated 3 component making this project quite interesting:

AI (On demand creation of digital collectible) 
Blockchain (Multichain instant payments)
Asset applicaton/Utlization (the use of collectibles in marketing and gaming) 

Allowing merchants  use the web app to turn phone-taken product images into brand-compliant marketing content 100X cheaper and in seconds, then allowing the content to be shared across WEB 2 and 3 (Social media/metaverse) 

Entities can team up with creatives/influencers using AI, WEB 2 and WEB 3

Incubation and acceleration:

PONS.ai is accelerated by HKAI Lab (supported by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund and HKSTP), Outlier Ventures and NVIDIA Inception; incubated by Sequoia China and HKXF's "X-PLAN 19"; and recently featured in Google Web3, CES, Web Summit, Startup Grind Global, Art Central and K11 MUSEA.

These are big names with big promises. 


Team:

Great team of AI engineers with PhDs. 


Public and Media exposure
Despite their early stage they have already been features across local media in Hong Kong and making some splash organically.


Listed B2B clients:

There are stellar companies that are listed on the deck that are expected to be their clients, if they indeed succeed in onboarding them that would be grand slam 


Deck:

Informative and yet seems to be in need of more structure work making it easy for Partners or VCs to make better sense of their offering, product market fit, detail how 3 pricing policies are going to work for B2C, B2B and user acquisition strategy, details on nature of partnerships.

Sun Tzu

Great opportunity for Generative AI technologies, however I hope they will do photorealistic rendering either in real-time or offline. If they stick to Sandbox-like highly pixaleted art, I don't think it will be a real commercial success.

Team: They have several AI engineer some of which seems to have PhD's, so that part looks decent. However, the current media/demo seems to be very lacking in terms of technological finess, so I guess they haven't completed the technology part which could highly reduce their chance of raising funding.

They appear to be focused on generating revenue, which is great to see instead of focusing on raising funding, or being based entirely on a tokenomic model.

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