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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

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From a technology point of view, new tech tools like generative AI means that tasks can be accomplished with fewer resources and at a higher speed. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Luck favours the bold!

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

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Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. I genuinely believe that the next 24-36 months will be a great vintage to invest in early stage.

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The State of Creative Automation

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GPT-3, a complex algorithm for AI text generation, is making text automation broadly available. Full scale generative text engines : GPT-3/ Open AI – launched only in May 2020 by OpenAI , GPT-3 quickly made waves as the largest neural network ever created.