Simon Gillett
- Founder and CEO at Global AI Internet Freedom Fund
GetLatka interview
How Global AI Internet Freedom Fund Raised $20M to Back Amazon Sellers with Proprietary AI (Interview with CEO Simon Gillett)
Simon Gillett (Founder and CEO of Global AI Internet Freedom Fund) spoke to Nathan Latka on April 21, 2021.
Global AI Internet Freedom Fund figures from the interview
- Fund Raised (2020)
- $20,000,000
- Fund Close Date
- December 31, 2020
- Portfolio Companies (2021)
- 1
“GAIIFF is short for the Global AI Internet Freedom Fund. So really, we're a micro private equity fund, and we built an API in partnership with our cloud provider to allow Amazon sellers to do demand forecasting, to do pricing analytics.”
“It's an API. We're built on the API and it's a partnership portal. You can also access it via our website at gaiiff.com, gaiiff.com.”
“We don't charge for the forecasting. It's simply also a business analytics tool that is a warm lead gen for us.”
Bio
After careers in financial markets (Standard Chartered Bank) and academia (Professor of International Relations), Simon started to buy and build businesses and to date has an IRR of 27%. He built sustainable incomes in 8 countries and is now living in Virginia, USA, with his wife and daughter. Simon is English with dual US and British citizenships (ask him why one isn’t enough). He is an alumni of University College London (BA (Hons), MA), the University of Edinburgh (PGDip by Research), the University of Exeter (M.Ed) and the University of Cambridge and is a past recipient of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council‘s scholarship for Artificial Intelligence.