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Jaden Schaefer

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AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

It's not automatically doing something for me.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And that example I just gave you is like very basic.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I mean,

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I think ideally you would upload an audio file and it would fill out all of the data and automatically find the best time to post it and look at your calendar and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Like it's just going through and automatically doing stuff.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

That is what they're looking for, not a chat bar on the side.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Okay, so what are they less interested in?

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

What are investors less interested in investing in AI right now?

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And what that is, is thin workflow layers.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So generic horizontal tools, light product management software, and surface level analytics.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

If an AI agent can replicate the core value quickly, I think investors are not seeing this as very defensible.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So maybe even some of my previous examples weren't the greatest because

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

In a sense, what they want tools to be able to do is have some sort of custom data set, some sort of deep integration into something that's super, super critical.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And it's not something that just like a chat GPT or Anthropic can replicate easily.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And the reason being, Anthropic right now is rolling out all of these new tools, right?

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

They're doing like Anthropic for finance and Anthropic for legal.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And basically, you have a company like even Harvey AI, who's raised a ton of money.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And I'm hearing, you know...

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

anecdotal stories from people who are saying like, you know, I've used Harvey for my law firm and now I'm using Anthropic just rolled out Anthropic for legal and I don't need this whole other tool.

AI HR
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I just use my Anthropic account and all of a sudden this is, you know, just as good as Harvey.