"In sourcing and thesis work, AI helps me map emerging categories. For example, if I'm exploring vertical AI in legal or healthcare, I can synthesize thousands of company descriptions, research reports, and job posts, then cluster them by workflow, buyer, and data advantage. That surfaces non-obvious adjacencies and edge cases where new category leaders might emerge. Our investment in Laurel came out of that kind of bottom-up work in legal."
"In addition to organic sourcing, we use AI tools to surface companies and isolate specific quality signals we care about. This has significantly expanded our outbound sourcing capacity, allowing us to refresh our top-of-funnel each week without adding investment team head count. We then layer in CRM AI features to identify warm introduction paths, prioritize outreach, and automate pipeline management to improve follow-through."
Venture capitalists use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google's NotebookLM to accelerate sourcing, diligence, and operational workflows. AI synthesizes thousands of company descriptions, research reports, and job posts and clusters them by workflow, buyer, and data advantage to reveal non-obvious adjacencies and emerging category leaders. AI expands outbound sourcing capacity by surfacing companies and isolating quality signals, enabling weekly refreshes of top-of-funnel without adding headcount. CRM AI features identify warm introduction paths, prioritize outreach, and automate pipeline management to improve follow-through. AI also helps learn markets faster, stress-test investment theses, and turn meeting content into searchable insights.
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