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Build, don’t bind: Accel’s Sonali De Rycker on Europe’s AI crossroads


Sonali De Rycker, a general partner at Accel and one of Europe’s most influential venture capitalists, is bullish about the continent’s prospects in AI.

At a TechCrunch StrictlyVC evening earlier this week in London, De Rycker reflected on Europe’s place in the global AI race, balancing optimism with realism. The AI Act, which imposes stringent rules on applications deemed “high risk,” from credit scoring to medical imaging, has raised red flags among investors like De Rycker. Examples of promising bets include Synthesia, a video generation platform used in enterprise training, and Speak, a language learning app that recently jumped to a $1 billion valuation.

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