Avi Bharadwaj

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Talking AI · The VC's Lens: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Defensibility · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

So at a high level, the job of a VC is I can classify it in four buckets.

So it's seeing, it's picking, it's winning and supporting.

So seeing is essentially making sure you're seeing all the startups in your focus area.

Picking is like doing the due diligence and making sure you invest in the right companies.

Winning is how do you compete with others who also want to invest in these companies?

How do you make sure that the startup takes your money versus someone else's money?

Yeah.

And then supporting is once you have made the investment, how do you do portfolio governance?

How do you help your founders achieve whatever whatever is is great for everyone?

So given this workflow, I've seen a lot of AI adoption both on my side, our team side as well, and broadly in the industry.

industry in the seeing and picking.

So that's the first two buckets.

I think the winning and supporting is more ad hoc and more hands on as opposed to seeing and picking.

In the in the seeing and picking buckets, we use a lot of tools like Claude Co., I use AlphaSense, we use Affinity, and a bunch of other early stage products.

So I'll give you a couple of examples on how I use these.

So being uh being an infra investor, I spend a lot of my time reading research papers, technical blogs, hacker news, Reddit threads, Discord channels, and so on.

So that used to be a pretty big time sink, even if you were a fast

Reader, it takes a lot of time to digest all that's coming out today.

I've uh now I have an agent on Cloud Cowork that goes through a lot of these threads, summarizes findings, identifies what companies are being talked about, looks them up on pitchbook, and then enters it directly into our CRM.

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