Simon Menashy is a venture capital investor at MMC Ventures who has built one of Europe's deepest early-stage AI portfolios over more than a decade, leading dozens of AI and data deals while developing a full stack investment approach that looks for opportunities across applications, data infrastructure, and pipelines rather than just visible applications. Beyond investing, he produces educational content through MMC's "Beyond The Hype" podcast where he interviews founders about practical AI adoption, drawing on his physics background and prior experience in strategy consulting and founding an IT business to take a data-driven, commercially focused approach to evaluating startups.