Most funds now run AI over your deck, your metrics, and your public footprint before a human ever reads your email: platforms like EQT's Motherbrain score thousands of companies, and LLM deck-parsers produce an investment memo in minutes. For founders this means your website, LinkedIn, and Crunchbase are part of the pitch, your numbers must be consistent everywhere an algorithm can look, and it is worth running your own deck through the same LLM analysis VCs use before you hit send.
9 resources.
The most rigorous mainstream account of how AI is changing both how VCs invest and what they now expect portfolio companies to look like.
Harvard Business Review Nov 2025
Open hbr.org →A current inside look at Motherbrain from EQT's Head of AI, on how the platform transforms venture sourcing and due diligence.
Tech.eu Nov 2025
Open tech.eu →The fund's own description of its AI across sourcing, diligence, and portfolio work, straight from the source rather than secondhand.
EQT 2025
Open eqtgroup.com →The definitive weekly newsletter on how data-driven funds actually screen, written by the Earlybird partner who built one.
Andre Retterath (Earlybird) 2026
Open datadrivenvc.io →Retterath explains in plain language what signals VC screening models weigh, which tells you exactly what to make visible.
DataCamp (DataFramed) 2024
Open datacamp.com →From the CRM half the industry runs on: the actual AI stack sitting between your email and a partner meeting.
Affinity 2026
Open affinity.co →Lemkin shares what actually surfaced from running thousands of decks and 850k valuations through LLMs, a rare look at the machine reading your deck.
Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) Dec 2025
Open saastr.com →A high-volume pre-seed fund on where AI helps its decisions and where humans still decide, useful for calibrating what actually gets you a yes.
Brian Nichols (Hustle Fund) 2024
Open hustlefund.vc →The stage-calibrated prompts investors run on you, from pre-seed to Series B, which makes it a cheat sheet for founders too.
Petar Dimov (22nd Century Frontier) May 2026
Open 22ndcenturyfrontier.com →The same ground, over in Raise money, our Starting Up track.
