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Neal Ghosh, Managing Partner at 9point8 Collective, is speaking at the Global Venture Studio Innovation Half Day. Neal is an economist turned venture builder. Previously at Amazon, he led AI initiatives and helped set up the company's first internal venture studio. He went on to co-found The Venture Studio Forum, a community for the founders, operators and investors building studios. Through 9point8 Collective, he co-developed the Venture Studio Index, an open standard for benchmarking studios, built from operating inside 20+ studios and researching around 500 more worldwide. That research and his wider experience helping set up venture studios around the world is the foundation of his keynote, The State of Venture Studios 2026: Models, Capital and Who Is Pulling Ahead, covering: → Which studio models are producing investable companies, and why → Where capital for studios and studio funds is flowing now → The metrics LPs and studio builders can use to judge a studio's performance For studio founders and emerging GPs, LPs weighing a first studio allocation, and operators considering building a studio of their own. Thursday 29 October, 8 to 11am PT. Live online. Scan to find out more and register. Hosted by Myrto Lalacos of The Emerging VC, Vineet Shah of 8 Clockwise and Vish Rao Dumpeti of Forward Share Ventures. #venturestudios #venturecapital #fundmanagers