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36 use cases

VCScreening and evaluation

Guinness Ventures: AI in the process, humans at the IC

Guinness Ventures' head of technology describes using AI for filtering, research, benchmarking and drafting, with every output checked and investme...

ChatGPTClaudeGeminiChatGPTguinnessventures.com · Oct 2026
VCLP reporting

A Claude Skill that drafts the quarterly LP letter from live fund data

Hanover Park publishes a downloadable skill: ask Claude to 'Draft our Q2 LP letter' and it pulls performance, capital activity and portfolio develo...

ClaudeClaudesupport.hanoverpark.com · Oct 2026
VCTalent and recruiting

Primary Venture Partners hires a Head of AI to build its internal systems

Primary's job post sketches the emerging role: one leader owning AI systems for sourcing, diligence, portfolio support and firm operations. It's a ...

Run the firmprimary.vc · Sep 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

A VC picks $120 of AI subscriptions over an intern

Marc Palet shares the stack he uses for knowledge-base upkeep, research and reporting, and why recurring operational tasks now go to agents rather ...

Run the firmbusinessinsider.com · Aug 2026
VCFund accounting and NAV

AngelList Link lets GPs query their fund from Claude or ChatGPT

AngelList's MCP connector gives GPs read-only access to their fund records from Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP tools, so questions like 'what's my r...

AngelListClaudeChatGPTAngelListangellist.com · Jul 2026
VCTalent and recruiting

Khosla Ventures' talent team runs hundreds of portfolio searches with AI

Five KV talent partners support searches across hundreds of portfolio companies at once. They use Metaview's AI for sourcing and executive enableme...

Run the firmmetaview.ai · Jul 2026
VCScreening and evaluation

20 case studies of AI in early- to growth-stage VC

A roundup including Correlation Ventures, whose predictive model trained on 100,000+ financings lets it make co-investment decisions in about 48 ho...

Investblott.com · Jul 2026
VCScreening and evaluation

Serac Ventures turned off its auto-reject bot after it passed on a winner

Serac built a screener that matched inbound deals to its thesis, auto-booked meetings and auto-passed the rest. After it rejected a company the tea...

ClaudeClaudeseracventures.vc · Jun 2026
VCThesis and market research

Business Insider asks top seed investors how they use AI

Alongside its Seed 100 list, Business Insider collected how leading seed investors use AI for sourcing, prep and diligence. A quick read of what's ...

Investbusinessinsider.com · May 2026
VCTalent and recruiting

USV rethinks the analyst role around an agent fleet

Announcing its 2026 analyst class, USV explains how six months of deploying an agent fleet changed the role: less note-taking and lookup work, more...

TaskletTaskletusv.com · May 2026
VCDue diligence

Accelerating VC diligence with Claude Code

Krishin Parikh walks through a Claude Code setup for diligence: market and competitor research, founder background checks and a structured write-up...

ClaudeClaudekrishinparikh.substack.com · Apr 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

Point Nine partner vibe-codes a firm "Knowledge Hub" in 13 days

Point Nine managing partner Christoph Janz built a firm-wide knowledge hub in 13 days without writing code himself. Replit agents and Claude Code w...

ClaudeAttioGranolaClaudecheesecake.vc · Apr 2026
VCThesis and market research

Airtree research agent writes a company brief in about 3 minutes

Airtree's research agent produces a company brief in about three minutes, work that used to take an analyst hours. The team's lesson: one agent wit...

ClaudeClaudecheesecake.vc · Apr 2026
VCScreening and evaluation

TheVentures' "Vicky" AI analyst gives Yes/Maybe/No ratings

Korean VC TheVentures built Vicky, an AI analyst that reads decks, founder profiles and transcripts and returns a Yes/Maybe/No rating with reasonin...

Investcheesecake.vc · Apr 2026
VCPortfolio monitoring

Fika Ventures open-sources a job-post tracker

Fika Ventures open-sourced a small tool that checks portfolio and target companies' career pages on a schedule and posts to Slack when a new role a...

Investgithub.com · Apr 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

HP Tech Ventures runs CVC agents including a "Chief of Staff" orchestrator

HP Tech Ventures runs a team of specialized agents on Claude Code and Obsidian, including a Chief of Staff orchestrator. One agent scores market si...

ClaudeClaudecheesecake.vc · Apr 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

Cautionary: Quiet Capital partner spent about 50 hours on a Claude Code command center

A cautionary tale: a Quiet Capital partner spent about 50 hours building a personal command center with Claude Code across email, calendar, notes a...

ClaudeClaudecheesecake.vc · Apr 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

USV says agents roughly doubled its team without hiring

USV says it roughly doubled its team by adding AI agents instead of hiring. The agents research companies, review legal documents, build internal a...

TaskletTaskletblog.usv.com · Apr 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

USV runs a named team of internal agents

USV gave each internal agent a name and a job: Sally writes up meetings from Granola transcripts, Ellie watches team email, Felix handles finance d...

TaskletGranolaClaudeTaskletblog.usv.com · Mar 2026
VCLegal and documents

USV trains "Leo", a legal counsel agent

USV is onboarding Leo, a legal counsel agent that reviews legal documents alongside the team, the newest member of its named agent roster.

TaskletTaskletblog.usv.com · Mar 2026
VCInvestor relations and fundraising

USV's "Ellie" monitors team email threads

USV's Ellie monitors the team's group email threads and turns mentions of companies and people into structured records in the firm's internal datab...

TaskletTaskletblog.usv.com · Mar 2026
VCKnowledge and internal ops

Canonical's partners build their own agents instead of hiring a Head of AI

Canonical's two partners build their own agents for thesis work, diligence and founder support, arguing nobody knows their workflow better and inve...

ClaudeClaudeblog.canonical.cc · Feb 2026
VCLegal and documents

From term sheet to LPA draft: AI fund-formation workspaces

SwiftLaw generates LPAs, PPMs and subscription documents from a fund's term sheet, a job usually billed by the hour by fund counsel. Emerging manag...

Run the firmtryswiftlaw.com · Feb 2026
VCThesis and market research

13 rising-star VCs on using ChatGPT and NotebookLM

Younger VCs describe using ChatGPT and Google's NotebookLM to find deals, prep for pitches and get up to speed on new markets quickly.

ChatGPTGeminiChatGPTbusinessinsider.com · Feb 2026
VCFund accounting and NAV

Carta adds agentic cash reconciliation for fund admin

Carta's fund admin agents reconcile cash around the clock and tag schedule-of-investments entries, two of the most tedious steps in a VC fund's qua...

CartaCartacarta.com · Jan 2026
VCMarketing, brand, content

Turning deal news into on-brand LinkedIn posts and newsletters

Spok's media engine drafts posts and newsletters from a VC firm's deal activity and portfolio updates in the firm's voice, with an approval step be...

Run the firmspok.vc · 2026
VCSourcing and origination

SignalFire's Beacon tracks 80M companies and 650M people

SignalFire's in-house Beacon AI powers sourcing, founder research, recruiting for portfolio companies and go-to-market support. It's one of the lon...

Investsignalfire.com · 2026
VCTechnology, data, security

InReach: agents are the easy part, the data platform isn't

InReach Ventures, which built its own platform years ago, argues that sourcing and screening agents are now a commodity. The durable edge is the da...

Run the firminreachventures.com · 2026
VCSourcing and origination

How EQT's Motherbrain ranks the startup universe

EQT's Motherbrain combines public data, internal records and network intelligence with agentic assessments to rank opportunities using interpretabl...

Investtech.eu · Nov 2025
VCLP reporting

Bee Partners drafts its LP letter with a RAG system over its memos

Bee Partners assembled most of its Q1 2025 LP letter with a retrieval system over investment memos, thesis documents and founder correspondence. Pa...

Run the firmbeepartners.vc · May 2025
VCThesis and market research

Inflection builds 'Kepler', a shared research workspace for its VC team

Unhappy with single-user chat tools, Inflection built Kepler: VC-specialized agents in a chat the whole team can join, plus Notion-style research n...

Investinflection.fund · Feb 2025
VCScreening and evaluation

A year building a deck-screening agent for a top seed VC

Tom Walczak's team built an agent that opens forwarded decks and DocSend links, extracts team, sector and traction, enriches via Harmonic and groun...

HarmonicGeminiChatGPTHarmonictomwalczak.com · Jan 2025
VCSourcing and origination

NGP Capital sources over 70% of its pipeline through its 'Q' platform

NGP Capital spent five years building Q, an internal data and AI platform that reads how companies and investors describe themselves rather than re...

Investngpcap.com · 2025
VCSourcing and origination

Cherry Ventures' 'Harvester' enriches and ranks inbound leads

Cherry built Harvester to enrich leads from public data, CRM records, LinkedIn, GitHub and Product Hunt, then prioritize them. The goal isn't catch...

Investcherry.vc · 2025
VCSourcing and origination

Moonfire's ML/LLM sourcing pipeline surfaces a few dozen companies a week

Moonfire runs an ML and LLM pipeline that screens about 2 million companies a year and surfaces a few dozen each week for investors to review. An o...

Investmoonfire.com · May 2023
VCScreening and evaluation

Ada Ventures' Deck Genius gives founders slide-level feedback

Ada Ventures' Deck Genius gives founders slide-level feedback on narrative, design and fundamentals in 30 to 90 seconds by running 20 to 50 LLM cal...

ClaudeClaudedeckgenius.ai

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