We asked 13 rising-star VCs how they use AI. Here's what they told us.

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Lexi Henkel

Maverick Ventures

Y Combinator picked a fight with Canada — and quickly backtracked

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Garry Tan is pictured at the 2022 Web Summit
Gary Tan said that some academic entrepreneurship programs are creating "fake" founders like Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried.

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Bollywood dance teammates raised $5.3 million for their Y Combinator AI startup. Read their pitch deck.

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Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada, standing in front of a white wall, wearing dark shirts.
Orange Slice cofounders Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada.

Dan St. Louis

I left Amazon and became an angel investor. Mentoring startups for 6 years made me a better founder.

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William Tunstall-Pedoe
William Tunstall-Pedoe became an angel investor after leaving Amazon.

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Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry

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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
OpenAI and Anthropic release new AI models on the same day amid an escalating rivalry.

Reuters

Hollywood superagent and investor Michael Ovitz praised Jeffrey Epstein and was invited to his island, files reveal

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Hollywood power broker turned venture capitalist Michael Ovitz.
Hollywood power broker turned venture capitalist Michael Ovitz.

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Software ate the world. Now AI is eating software.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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He's a rising star in venture capital. Here's where Iconiq's Ryan Koh says the next great investors will come from.

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Ryan Koh

Iconiq

A legendary coder has been quietly working at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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This startup uses AI to get you on a date — fast. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $9.2 million.

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Ditto cofounders Eric Liu and Allen Wang
Ditto cofounders Eric Liu and Allen Wang.

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