Corsair AI

Unlock value through AI-led transformation of portfolio companies and co-investment

CorsairAI partners with private equity sponsors to create value from their portfolio through AI-led transformation, and capture it through co-investment
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Our experience

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What we do

Value and approach

  • Pre-investment: augment due diligence by validating what is possible vs. probable with AI, and projected impact.
  • Post-investment: support portfolio reviews and inform hold / sell / recap decisions.

Value and approach

  • Technical validation through rapid prototyping.
  • Business validation using prototyping to size costs and efforts involved, against portfolio company budget and Investment Committee case.

Value and approach

  • Deploy senior partner for dedicated transformation oversight (Board level).
  • Source key executives (as needed) to execute the transformation.
  • Potential co-investment on the same terms as the PE sponsor, to fund the AI transformation.
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The team

Antoine Theysset
Co-founder/CEO
  • Operating Partner, SoftBank Vision Funds
  • Interim CEO, Amplify Access (NewsCorp)
  • COO International, Fox Interactive Media
  • Head of Corp. Strategy & Bus. Dev., Orange Group
  • Director Strat. Planning & Corp. Dev., Vivendi Net
  • McKinsey, CapGemini

Current/previous Boards: Improbable, DICE, Jellysmack, Contentsquare, Cameo, Sorare, Vestiaire Collective, Bleichroeder SPAC1

Herman Narula
Co-founder
  • Founder/CEO of Improbable Worlds Ltd.
  • Co-founder, MSquared/ Somnia blockchain

Current/previous Boards: Improbable, Spot Ship

Jonathan Miller
Founding Partner
  • Founder/CEO, Integrated Media Co (TPG)
  • Chair/CEO, NewsCorp Digital, Fox Interactive Media + Chair, Hulu
  • Chair/CEO, AOL
  • Partner, Advancit
  • Partner, Velocity
  • President/CEO, USA Interactive (now IAC)
  • MD, Nickelodeon Intl.

Current/previous Boards: Akamai, Live Nation – TicketMaster, Interpublic, Ziff Davis, Nielsen

Michel Combes
Founding Partner
  • Chair/CEO, Brightspeed (Apollo)
  • CEO, SoftBank Group International
  • President/CEO, Sprint
  • CEO, Altice
  • CEO, Alcatel Lucent
  • Chair/CEO, SFR
  • CEO, Vodafone Europe
  • CFO, Orange Group
  • Chair/CEO, TDF

Current/previous Boards: Etisalat, Philip Morris International, CTIA, Contentsquare, Swile, Espace, F5, McLaren Racing

Dr. John Tang
Founding Advisor
  • Chief Data & AI Officer, Cerberus Technology Solutions, MD Spark92
  • Chief Data Scientist, Barclays UK Info Svcs.
  • EMEA Head, JPMorgan Intelligent Solutions
  • Research Scientist, University of Cambridge
  • Research Scientist, IBM

Current/previous Boards: Intel Ignite, ConceptionX, Responsible AI Institute, UCL

Olivier Pomel
Founding Advisor
  • Founder/CEO, Datadog
  • VP, Technology, Wireless Generation (acquired by NewsCorp)
  • Sr. Software Engineer, Silicongo, Neomeo
  •  Software Engineer, IBM
Jerome Pesenti
Founding Advisor
  • Founder/CEO, SizzleAI 
  • VP of AI, Meta
  • CEO, BenevolentAI
  • VP, Watson Platform, Watson Core, Chief Scientist, IBM
  • Co-Founder, Chief Scientist, Vivisimo (IBM)
  • Visiting Scientist, Carnegie Mellon

Current/previous Boards: BenevolentAI, Pittsburgh Dataworks

Kathy Savitt
Founding Advisor
  • President, Boom Supersonic
  • GP, Perch Partners
  • CMO and Head of Global Media, Yahoo!
  • Founder/CEO, Lockerz
  • EVP / CMO, American Eagles Outfitters
  • VP Comms, Content, Strat. Initiatives, Amazon

Current/previous Boards: EVolta Charging, Bleichroeder SPAC1

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