Berlin\/ Paris \u2014 YPOG has advi\u00adsed HV Capi\u00adtal on the struc\u00adtu\u00adring of its invest\u00adment in AMI Labs, the AI startup foun\u00added by Meta\u2019s former Chief AI Scien\u00adtist Yann LeCun. YPOG\u2019s legal advice included the struc\u00adtu\u00adring and imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of special purpose vehic\u00adles (SPVs) speci\u00adfi\u00adcally tail\u00ado\u00adred to HV Capi\u00adtal\u2019s invest\u00adment strategy. <\/p>\n
AMI Labs<\/strong> (Advan\u00adced Machine Intel\u00adli\u00adgence) focu\u00adses on the deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of the next gene\u00adra\u00adtion of AI systems based on so-called \u201cworld models\u201d. The aim is to enable machi\u00adnes to better under\u00adstand and draw conclu\u00adsi\u00adons about the real world. The company is head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Paris and has offices in New York, Mont\u00adreal and Singa\u00adpore and has attrac\u00adted a broad inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal inves\u00adtor base. Accor\u00adding to media reports, AMI Labs is aiming for a valua\u00adtion in the billi\u00adons and has recei\u00adved commit\u00adments from renow\u00adned inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal tech\u00adno\u00adlogy and growth investors. <\/p>\n The Paris-based company Advan\u00adced Machine Intel\u00adli\u00adgence Labs (AMI Labs for short) has thus raised the largest finan\u00adcing round of its kind in Europe to date. \u2014 In addi\u00adtion to nume\u00adrous venture capi\u00adta\u00adlists, the inves\u00adtors include well-known compa\u00adnies and private inves\u00adtors, inclu\u00adding Nvidia, Samsung, Toyota as well as Amazon foun\u00adder Jeff Bezos, inves\u00adtor Mark Cuban and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. <\/p>\n \u201cHaving worked with HV Capi\u00adtal on a number of complex blind pool fund struc\u00adtures in recent years, we are deligh\u00adted to now extend this trus\u00adted part\u00adner\u00adship to the struc\u00adtu\u00adring of single-asset SPVs for this signi\u00adfi\u00adcant AI invest\u00adment,\u201d comm\u00adents YPOG Part\u00adner Stephan Bank<\/strong>.<\/p>\n YPOG has alre\u00adady advi\u00adsed HV Capi\u00adtal on nume\u00adrous matters, inclu\u00adding the struc\u00adtu\u00adring of HV Capi\u00adtal\u2019s current fund gene\u00adra\u00adtion with a total volume of over EUR 700 million and the successful appli\u00adca\u00adtion for a full BaFin license.<\/p>\n Advi\u00adsor AMI Labs: YPOG www.ypog.com<\/p>\n About HV Capital Berlin\/ Paris \u2014 YPOG has advi\u00adsed HV Capi\u00adtal on the struc\u00adtu\u00adring of its invest\u00adment in AMI Labs, the AI startup foun\u00added by Meta\u2019s former Chief AI Scien\u00adtist Yann LeCun. YPOG\u2019s legal advice included the struc\u00adtu\u00adring and imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of special purpose vehic\u00adles (SPVs) speci\u00adfi\u00adcally tail\u00ado\u00adred to HV Capi\u00adtal\u2019s invest\u00adment stra\u00adtegy. AMI Labs (Advan\u00adced Machine Intel\u00adli\u00adgence) focuses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\n Dr. Stephan Bank (Co-Lead) (Structuring\/Corporate), Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nDr. Helder Schnitt\u00adker (Co-Lead) (Structuring\/Tax), Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nDr. Michael Fili\u00adpo\u00adwicz (Co-Lead\/S\u00adtruc\u00adtu\u00adrin\u00adg\/\u00adCor\u00adpo\u00adrate), Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nDr. Dajo Sanning (Tax), Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Part\u00adner, Hamburg
\nDr. Niklas Ulrich (Regu\u00adla\u00adtory), Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Part\u00adner, Hamburg
\nAxel Zirn (Corpo\u00adrate), Senior Asso\u00adciate, Berlin
\nDana Ritter (Corpo\u00adrate), Senior Asso\u00adciate, Cologne
\nAlina Shchukina (Inves\u00adtor Onboar\u00adding), Legal Project Mana\u00adger, Berlin<\/p>\n
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\n HV Capi\u00adtal is a leading Euro\u00adpean venture capi\u00adtal firm inves\u00adt\u00ading in early-stage and growth compa\u00adnies in the tech\u00adno\u00adlogy and inter\u00adnet sectors. It has backed successful names such as Zalando, Deli\u00advery Hero, SumUp, Depop, Enpal, Flix\u00adbus, Senn\u00adder, Quan\u00adtum Systems and Isar Aero\u00adspace. The expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced team supports start-ups from the earliest stages through to inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal scaling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"