Early-Stage AI Investing

About this session

-What are we seeing as investors? -What are investors looking for in AI startups? -What is hot, and what is not? -How has the landscape changed over the past 6-12 months? What's the minimum traction expectation before considering investment?

Speaker

• David Mandel, Managing Partner, Emerging Ventures Capital

Key takeaways

• Build and get early paying customers before fundraising. Raising in order to build is no longer acceptable
• You are not unique. Everyone is building AI startups, and there are likely 100 others duing something very similar to your "unique" idea.
• LLM wrappers are out. Agentic AI and workflow is in.

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