The next big wave is here

The next big wave is here: where software reasons, acts, and learns—and where every physical industry and electrified product becomes intelligent. 

This will transform the world, but places outside major cities will change more, and faster, than anywhere else. 

At Hudson Valley Venture Hub and Place Partners, we believe the Hudson Valley is poised to be one of those places.

We’ll create the jobs of the future, resilient economies, and thriving communities for generations to come.

AI & autonomy are rewriting the future of work, and life itself.

• AI represents natural language interfaces as well as reasoning, agency, and learning. If we were shocked to see how kids intuitively picked up iPads, just wait until they interact with AI.

• Autonomy is just embodied AI: robots and drones but also cars, homes, offices, factories, schools, and hospitals. If it's electrified and online, it'll soon be intelligent.

• These trends will transform work, home and everything in between including energy, food, education, transportation, safety, healthcare, and government.

This massive wave will be dramatic and compounding. It presents enormous risk to those who standby, and tremendous opportunity for those who seize the moment. This is why the Hudson Valley Venture Hub started Place Partners to invest in the future of the Hudson Valley. To capture this lighting in a bottle.

Some cities will surge, others will stall out. Some exurban regions will reinvent themselves, others will hollow out. 

The outcome will come down to which places lean into this future and build. The regions that develop vibrant AI-first ecosystems for talent, capital, and startups will generate economic development and momentum for future growth. We believe a place-based, techno-industrial strategy -- one that embraces innovation and builds for real-world impact -- can create prosperity in the Hudson Valley and across America.

We believe America’s future is bright, especially beyond big cities.

Small towns, rural regions, and exurban hubs is largely where the next generation will be educated, trained, and employed. As we reshore manufacturing, expand energy production, regenerate agriculture, reimagine education, and transform healthcare, government, and home life, these regions will experience higher rates of change and growth. Our major cities will thrive, but beyond that, we'll boom. This is our thesis. This is our mission.

Our investment fund will focus on the Greater Hudson Valley, from Albany to New York City.