Manana Samuseva

AI & Media Gaming Partner (USA/UK & MENA)

2024 - Current

Babylon Voice Partners with Antix to Revolutionize Gaming Wallets with AI Voice ID. In a groundbreaking move, Babylon Voice and Antix have announced a strategic partnership to integrate advanced AI Voice ID technology into gaming wallets, setting a new benchmark in digital authentication and security. AI Voice-Based Digital Identity and Voice Signatures for authentication and transactions, targeting the 1 billion unbanked worldwide via wallets, apps, payments, and games. AI Voice ID is a fintech solution that encompasses Digital Intellectual Properties and Zero-Knowledge Proofs https://www.mananai.com. Antix, renowned for its creation of AVAgen, the leading AI-powered avatar generation technology, brings to the table an unparalleled level of realism and efficiency in avatar production. This innovative technology has been pivotal in enhancing the realism of digital characters, making them virtually indistinguishable from real humans. The collaboration aims to leverage these capabilities to introduce a secure and engaging way for influencers and brands to connect with over 1 billion users through AI Voice ID authentication and gaming transactions, dramatically enhancing scam prevention efforts. Antix specializes in AI-powered digital humans and avatars, revolutionizing 3D avatar creation, browsing, and AVAge algorithms to empower global brands and human expression. With recognition from industry leaders such as HBO, Wargaming, and Warner Bros, Antix has proven its expertise. Ray Toxic's distinction by 3D Total and Helisa being nominated by OUTPUT Global Talent Open Call Awards among the top 10 best digital artworks in 2022, as well as Antix's participation in the Vogue Business with Epic Games, underscore its commitment to shaping the future of digital experiences. https://antix.in

Chief Executive Officer

2022

Founder

2020

Family Offices & Investors Summit is an elite conference for Family Offices, Funds of Funds, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, and Venture Capitalists managing assets over $100M. It features sessions in major cities, leading up to the World Economic Forum https://www.familyofficesinvestorssummit.com Anticipating a transformative gathering, The Family Offices Investors Summit announces its 2025 edition during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Themed 'Legacy of Leadership for the Next Generation: The DNA of Success in Capital, AI, Risk Strategies, and Regenerative Investment 2030,' is set to bring together 80 family funds, collectively managing $493 billion across private equity, hedge funds, and venture capital, each with a minimum of $100M in Assets Under Management (AUM). Dedicated to unveiling innovative approaches in capital management, artificial intelligence, risk mitigation, and regenerative investments, the 2025 summit is designed to equip global family offices with the foresight and strategies necessary to navigate the impending challenges and opportunities of the next decade. Featuring insightful sessions hosted in New York, Zurich, Paris, and London-the summit is set to culminate with a pivotal discourse at the World Economic Forum 2025, emphasizing the critical influence of family offices in cultivating a future marked by prosperity and sustainability. In the spirit of looking ahead, the summit will spotlight insights from thought leaders like Dr. Bill Tai, Eduardo Esparza, Carolina Forga, Mamadou Kwidjim Toure, and Manana Samuseva. Their prospective discussions will orbit around the innovative nexus of technology and investment, aiming to equip attendees with strategies to harness emerging opportunities and tackle the imminent challenges of the next decade. https://www.familyofficesinvestorssummit.com/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/family-offices-investors-summit-spotlight-155600971.html

Chief Executive Officer

2021

https://linktr.ee/babylonvoice Manan AI is a tech company that uses advanced AI, blockchain, and web3 to improve human intelligence and decision-making. The company was founded by awarded Ph.D., ex-MTV-host CEO, and has a team of developers, traders, AI scientists, and media experts with Stanford, Google, and Telegram backgrounds, advised by the ex-partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Manan AI has been recognized as a top25 tech startup in New York, received grants from Amazon, NVIDIA, Polygon, Filecoin, and has community support from Zoom, YouTube, Solana. Manan AI uses tools like STT, TTS, NLP to generate summaries, recognize speech, create synthetic media with a focus on style voice transfer in over 30 languages. It's needed 7 seconds user's voice. The company is also partnering with Open AI and Facebook AI to explore collaborative fiction. Babylon Voice is a B2B product from Manan AI that uses AI and VoicePrint to provide a secure and anonymous way to access the Metaverse, gaming, Web3 like Mona Verse, SandBox, Roblox through a voice ID system. The goal is to make it easier for the next billion users to access the Metaverse by using AI, blockchain. Babylon Voice helps gamers, developers, creators, brands in the Metaverse build on blockchain, creating a thriving economy network with influencer voices, AI capabilities. It also helps transition from Web2 to Web3, aiming to drive growth in blockchain transactions and enhance human intelligence through AI. Babylon Voice brings together top brands, and users on the Web3 to build a decentralized network that promotes access to ownership, financial inclusion, digital identity. It uses VoicePrint, NFTs as a secure and fact-checked web3 storage and transfer option for digital voice data that respects user privacy and is resistant to bots. We believe Babylon Voice offers a better alternative to traditional options like mp3 or mp4 files, which may be prone to technical and legal issues such as hacking and declining popularity

Co-founder at "Family Office and Investor's Summit 2020" (min $100M of AUM)

2019

Family Funds and Investor’s Summit, January 21 2020, Hotel Seehof Davos, 159 Promenade, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland Our guests are Private equity investors (Family Businesses - Oil/Gas & Finance) and Hedge funds managers (requirement min $100 million of AUM). Top investors take a look at current Trends, Political Risks & Finance challenges, and Elite Investor Insights for 2020 & Beyond 2035 detailing their proprietary views of the global landscape. An ultra-exclusive look at where elite investors are looking to deploy capital and strategies on how to protect our portfolios from various risks. How to identify and capitalize on future disruptive businesses and tech advancements. It’s about what it takes emotionally to step into leadership within the family business of a multi-generational company. Leading Family Offices share their inside stories of how their businesses started, grew, and evolved into major powerhouses. What are their views of the current environment and exclusive visions for the future? What are their strategies for transitioning their empire to the next generation? Identifying the top challenges in the family business continuity. Fostering leadership while incorporating the right governance structure for your business' best interest. Balancing between corporate governance and family governance for better control.

General Partner, Investment Director, Portfolio Director

2018

CryptoHQ is a NYC’ based hybrid venture fund and incubator for Emerging Technology, Female Tech, FinTech and Trading, P2P & Sharing Economy 2.0, Entertainment, Media-Tech, AdTech, IoT, Fashion Tech, Autonomous Robotics and Space Tech, Industry 4.0, Cognitive science, Healthcare Tech, Energy & Mobility, AI/Machine-readable Media, Automated data collection & analysis, IoT, Education Tech, and Internet of Money (DLT/Blockchain) startups. The current team has more than 10 years of direct venture capital experience and deployed more than $50M+ across 20+ companies and generated top decile returns, including multiple exits. CryptoHQ is a hybrid fund for talented entrepreneurs creating disruptive solutions to real-world problems, and scoring filters and Al out startups that have high investment risks; underdeveloped or fraudulent, and provide experts covering key themes such as entrepreneurship, IR, business development, marketing, UX/UI design, legal, technical architecture review, product-market fit, future potential against competition, due diligence. -The day-to-day running operations of the fund, lead new investments, help recruit, mentor and manage the team, and assist in all aspects of fundraising, evaluate opportunities for investment, assess investment risks and valuation, analyze financial data, support portfolio companies on various management, strategy and funding issues; -Manage due diligence, perform deal analysis and recommendations for follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies, and review entrepreneurs’ pitch decks, and take Board seats at our portfolio companies; Interact with entrepreneurs, advisors, limited partners, other investors, the media, lawyers and others in the tech ecosystem; Proactively identified and solved complex problems impacting operations management and business direction.

Head of Artificial Intelligence

2022

Infodriver Capital, an asset management fund and venture capital that invests in early-stage startups in Payments, Gaming and AI/ML, driving positive investment impact for the future.

CEO, Co-Founder

2017 - 2020

Women in Crypto is a global directory, digital media, community for women in capital to find each other, connect, collaborate, and investing in female-founders, millennials. A special focus on support women-founders, women in investment decision-making in new-economy, emerging tech, includes over 10,000+ members across 30+ countries; Community spans more than 1000+ across 500+ funds from more than 25 countries. Join Us: https://t.me/WomenInCryptos - My weekly breakfast event “Trading for Women in Crypto” was a great success, and huge impact was attended by over 5000+ women representing both the public and private sectors, JP Morgan, GE, Morgan Stanley, Linkedin, Deutsche Bank, Citi Group became participants. I had requests from New York Magazine, WSJ, Breaking Banks Show with Brett King (Fintech and Blockchain podcast). After success empowering female entrepreneurs through events like Women on the Block in New York and Singapore as well as weekly gatherings of Women in Crypto in NYC and CNBC’s breakfast we would like to provide female founders with the skills necessary to bridge the funding gap while also helping investors generate better returns by investing in women. I have had much positive feedback Insights from UN Blockchain for Impact Summit 2019 from the event; -I had overall responsibility for creating, planning, implementing, and integrating the strategic direction of a Women in Crypto; Prepared and filed financial statements such as balance sheets and income statements; Day-to-day operation of the company; Led the business development; Built alliances and Managed strategic partnerships with other organizations; Launched, developed, fully managed in U.S., and grew to the top globally by users and usage; - Educated the Media and Entertainment industry and evangelized Women in Crypto, Blockchain, Investments (official speaker at local/global events and with press globally).

CEO, Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Director Of Business Development

2017 - 2019

BuroHQ provides an NYC's workspace, community, Investment Relation for Blockchain, FinTech, Fashion-, Media-, AdTech entrepreneurs, who share the space, partnership, have the opportunity to work together, and that want to enter the global market (New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London etc). BuroHQ only welcomes companies that have raised $500K or have annual revenue of $500K (seed-round for the global expansion, R&D, marketing, business development), 3-9 employees in global megapolises not included HQ. -I have conducted more than 40 events (Crypto-trading, Women in Crypto, Bitcoin & Ethereum NightOut, Internet of Money, Blockchain and Crypto, Blockchain and Art, etc.) for the crypto-community and continue to keep closing the education gap between institutional capital and digital assets. As a result, the database of contacts grew to 7000+ in NYC. -Effectively managed team in 12 locations in 3 countries; Prepared and filed financial statements such as balance sheets and income statements. Developed intensive, ambitious business strategies, short-term goals, and long-term objectives; -Increased revenue by over 250% in a 2-year timespan and sales by 90% over a two-year period; Created communication strategies; Increased client database by 500% in 1 year, which grew net profits by 150%.

Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development 2019 | Blockchain For Impact Summit

2019 - 2019

Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development 2019 Blockchain For Impact Summit Women Powering Blockchain - United Nations HQ, NYC