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Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game

1 month 3 weeks ago

Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI.  Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. The question is, will legacy consumer products […]

Theresa Loconsolo

VC predicts the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’

1 month 3 weeks ago

Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI.  Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. The question is, will legacy consumer products […]

Rebecca Bellan, Theresa Loconsolo

How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor’s CEO

2 months ago

Three-year-old startup Mercor has become a $10 billion middleman in AI’s data gold rush. The company connects AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic with former employees of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and white-shoe law firms, paying them up to $200 an hour to share their industry expertise and train the AI models that could eventually automate their former employers out of business.   Today we’re bringing […]

Theresa Loconsolo

Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable

2 months ago

Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. The investor interest has taken shape in the latest all-equity Series D round from GEF […]

Jagmeet Singh

Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works

2 months ago

Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.   What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued […]

Theresa Loconsolo

Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z

2 months ago

Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.   What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued […]

Dominic-Madori Davis, Theresa Loconsolo
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