{"id":480869,"date":"2026-02-15T03:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:56:07","slug":"misha-saul-and-benjamin-plummer-launch-ai-native-holding-company-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480869\/","title":{"rendered":"Misha Saul and Benjamin Plummer launch AI-native holding company Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investor Misha Saul has emerged from last year\u2019s highest-profile venture capital controversy to team up with a former Silicon Valley chief executive to launch a company that will buy out services businesses and try to transform their fortunes with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Saul became the public face of the Strongroom AI saga almost a year ago, after leading his firm EVP\u2019s investment in the pharmacy software start-up, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/from-a-moroccan-villa-to-the-courtroom-how-strongroom-ai-s-good-times-went-bad-20250404-p5lp47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">raising the alarm over an alleged fraud about its financial position.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investor Misha Saul has emerged from last year\u2019s highest-profile venture capital controversy to team up with a former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-480869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}