How AI Impacts the Way Venture Capital Firms Evaluate Startups

In a conversation with Mike Sirius (Mastering Tech Growth) about how venture capital investors evaluate and work with startups, Camber Creek Partner Alexandra Nicoletti talked about artificial intelligence tools accelerating product-development and startups’ internal operations.

“I think what we do need is fresh perspectives, people coming in either from inside the industry of the pain point that they’re solving or even outside of the industry and doing something differently, for example, disrupting a workflow. What’s the technical moat?” she asked. “That concept has changed significantly over the last 36 months” with the proliferation of generative AI. “Is there another moat to be had?”

“A lot of people talk about being AI-native. But that doesn’t just mean the product you’re selling. I think it also means the mentality of the company. Can your technical team be one-tenth the size of what it historically might have been? Are you able to do more with less?”