How VCs Are Putting AI Agents to Work
Webinar highlights · Presented by Venture5 and Carta
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Almost every VC uses AI. Very few can name a job an agent now does for them from start to finish.
Venture5 and Carta brought together an AI-native GP, an LP and Carta's product team to look at where agents already do real work inside a fund, and where humans still have to stay in charge.
In these highlights, you'll see
- How Yohei Nakajima runs his fund on a “firm OS” his agents keep up to date
- Why Lindel Eakman now treats AI leverage as a must-have when he backs a GP
- How a fund turned a week of quarterly reporting into one prompt with Carta's plugin for Claude
- Why permissions come first before an agent touches money
- What to keep human: decisions and relationships
Key insights
AI leverage is now table stakes
Lindel won't back a GP who isn't getting real leverage from AI, however strong their network. And he discounts the “AI slide” in a deck unless the GP can show him the workflow instead of describing it.
A thin firm OS, not a company brain
Yohei keeps his fund's policies and decisions in a repo his agents update from notes and email. It doesn't copy data. It points to where the truth lives (Carta, the CRM, the LPA) and asks him to approve every change.
A week of reporting in one prompt
Delta V used to build quarterly reporting by hand across 28 spreadsheets. With the Carta plugin pulling data straight into Claude, the Form ADV work became a single prompt, freeing the team for LP relationships and deeper research.
Automate the ops, keep the calls
You can automate almost anything, so what you choose not to automate becomes your identity. Yohei lets AI filter out clear misses, but he never uses it to score companies. Decisions and relationships stay with him.
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