Why it matters
Enterprise procurement is where AI startups go to stall; advice from corporate-venture operators on the buying side is genuinely scarce.
The tokenmaxxing angle
Enterprise AI deals live or die on unit economics — founders who cannot explain their inference margins rarely survive the pilot phase.
From the organizers
Speakers are Shohei Yamada, CEO of SBI USA, and Tak Kihara of NEC X, at AI House on Alaskan Way, with three-minute startup pitches after.