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Barry Downes
Managing Partner,
Sure Valley Ventures
Barry is a software founder turned investor with extensive domain expertise in AI. He is the is the Managing Partner of Sure Valley Ventures, a leading VC investor in AI, having founded it in 2017. Previously, Barry founded FeedHenry the leader in mobile cloud middleware, which was sold to Red Hat/ IBM in 2014.
Barry is passionate about helping early-stage tech founders bring cutting edge AI technologies and products to market that advance the state of the art and have a positive impact on society and the economy. Barry is currently focusing on areas such as AI Agents and platforms, opensource AI technologies and reinforcement learning.