It’s no secret that AI has eaten the lion’s share of funding over the previous couple of years, with investments into the sector surging 62% to $110 billion in 2024 alone, whereas startup funding total declined 12%.
Startups might imagine that simply including “AI” to their firm’s identify would possibly assist them safe that funding. However because the frenzy round basis fashions has given solution to a give attention to real-world functions, AI brokers, and long-term profitability, traders are in search of startups that may flip technical ingenuity into sustained traction.
At TechCrunch Periods: AI, taking place on June 5 in Zellerbach Corridor at UC Berkeley, high VCs Zeya Yang (IVP), Jill Chase (CapitalG), and Kanu Gulati (Khosla Ventures) will break down precisely what they search for at every stage of funding, from seed rounds to Collection C. And so they’ve obtained the funding historical past and on-the-ground experience to again it up.
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Zeya Yang has invested in winners comparable to Grammarly and Figma and has a monitor report of working immediately with founders to refine product-market match and drive development.
Jill Chase leads CapitalG’s investments in Magic, /dev/brokers, Motif, and Abridge, and has spent the final a number of years specializing in rising use instances for AI and ML, information infrastructure, and enterprise expertise.
Kanu Gulati has backed AI leaders PolyAI, Kognitos, and Moonhub and brings over 10 years of expertise as a analysis scientist at Intel and Cadence and as a founding engineer at Heavy.ai, Spyglass, and Nascentric.
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