This piece is commentary and analysis, not investment advice. The past year has been a busy yet highly productive one at Iona Star as we continue to build a portfolio of companies aligned with our long-term technology vision. We have met with many exceptional founders developing businesses with compelling, well-defined, and differentiated value propositions.   Across every prospective investment, our focus remains consistent: the defendability of the moat , be it technologic

Driven by ever-increasing competitive pressures, banks and financial services businesses are looking to implement new products with customer-centric features  - such as speciality accounts, payments and loyalty programs - taking advantage of data-driven and AI-enabled personalisation techniques. Most financial firms have amassed substantial amounts of data about their customers, including their interests, preferences, and transaction histories. But leveraging all of that data

Barely a week goes by in the AI space without news of another ambitious project for an AI factory with a massive data center to meet the needs of model training, agent development, and inference at scale. Such reports generally include mention of the need for gigawatts of power and deployment of tens of thousands of the latest GPU chips. Costs are often cited too - often tens of billions of dollars. While acknowledging the sheer scale of such developments and the commitment b

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