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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Man Oseary are coming to Disrupt 2024

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Ashton Kutcher speaker

Final 12 months, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based enterprise agency led by common companions Ashton Kutcher, Man Oseary, and Effie Epstein, introduced a brand new $265 million AI fund that was betting huge on giant language mannequin corporations, together with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face.

In truth, the plan was to spend money on simply six corporations โ€” a dangerous however probably profitable wager on the crewโ€™s imaginative and prescient of the longer term, the place, due to the technical expertise required and the capital wanted to cowl compute prices, the largest winners in AI will probably be few and large.

Sound has since raised extra money for that very same fund. It additionally seems to have caught to its mission, judging by the few offers it has publicly disclosed in 2024, and weโ€™re thrilled to be internet hosting all three at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to dish about their technique โ€” together with the developments theyโ€™re monitoring proper now.

Kutcher has maybe made the transition between the worlds of performing and investing extra seamlessly than anybody else in Hollywood, beginning on his enterprise path in 2010 with the launch of A-Grade Investments with expertise supervisor and enterprise companion Man Oseary, whose early bets on Airbnb and Uber helped cement their fame for moving into the fitting offers on the proper time.

The 2, who went on to discovered Sound Ventures in 2014, introduced aboard Epstein a number of years later to enhance their very own ability units. Epstein beforehand led international technique on the Marsh & McLennan subsidiary Marsh. She additionally served as SVP of planning and head of investor relations at iHeartMedia, and earlier than that, she labored in enterprise improvement at Clear. 

Epstein additionally beforehand labored in funding banking within the vitality sector, bringing a various set of experiences and contacts to the desk. 

You undoubtedly donโ€™t wish to miss this fireplace on the Disrupt Stage, the place youโ€™ll be among the many 10,000 tech, startup, and VC leaders attending Disrupt 2024. Register immediately to lock in your ticket worth earlier than it goes up on the door.

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