We asked top startup investors how they use AI. Here's what they said.

"VCs are increasingly using AI for market research and investment analysis in startups. Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko uses AI to analyze field notes and identify patterns in AI startups. Craft Ventures' Jeff Fluhr uses AI to prototype startup ideas and assess their viability. Venture capitalists have spent the last few years hunting for the next great AI startup. Increasingly, they're also using AI to scout for the next OpenAI or Anthropic."

"Early-stage investors are weaving chatbots and agents into nearly every part of the job: mapping markets, stress-testing ideas, preparing for board meetings, and turning call transcripts into searchable knowledge bases. Business Insider asked investors from this year's Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists about how they use AI in their day-to-day work and which tools they rely on most. The following has been lightly edited for length and clarity."

""I taught my AI agent to run my entire back office. It handles scheduling end-to-end, runs email campaigns, and triages my incoming LinkedIn invitations, auto-accepting portfolio founders and relevant VCs while surfacing others for review. "It acts as a 'portfolio doctor.' Anyone on my team and my investors can email with 'portfolio doctor' in the subject line to ask a question like, 'What's the ARR or Cast.ai?' It will dig through the board decks and investor updates in my Dropbox, synthesize an answer with specific citations, and reply to the email thread.""

"Ann Miura Ko, partner at Floodgate: "First, I spent the last few months visiting a dozen AI-native companies in person to documen" Jeff Fluhr, partner at Craft Ventures: """

Venture capitalists increasingly use AI for market research and investment analysis in startups. AI is used to map markets, stress-test ideas, prepare for board meetings, and convert call transcripts into searchable knowledge bases. Floodgate’s Ann Miura Ko uses AI to analyze field notes and identify patterns in AI startups. Craft Ventures’ Jeff Fluhr uses AI to prototype startup ideas and assess their viability. Uncorrelated Ventures’ Salil Deshpande describes an AI agent that runs back-office tasks such as scheduling, email campaigns, and triaging LinkedIn invitations. The agent also functions as a “portfolio doctor,” answering questions by digging through board decks and investor updates and replying with synthesized answers and citations.

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