Angular Ventures

I’ve spent 20 years investing in and working with deeply technical founders at a very early stage. Looking back, there seems to be one overwhelming determinant of success for those technical teams. In my experience, success is highly correlated with how obsessive a founding team is about developing an extraordinarily efficient GTM machine. At first blush, this statement may seem obvious. I even hesitated if it was worth trying to write about it — as I feared I would get accused of stating the ob

After almost four years at Airtable, I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Angular Ventures, a specialist first-check VC firm investing in pioneering enterprise and deep-tech founders across Europe and Israel, as a full partner. (Read thoughts from my partner Gil Dibner on the new fund and my joining the firm).

Every product builder I know is spending a significant amount of their time these days thinking about how to build with generative AI.And, let’s not sugarcoat it…it’s hard to do. Even harder to do well. But there’s some value, I think, in describing how and why it’s hard to build with AI. So let me try to do that today.The approaches I’ve seen to building with AI fit into four broad categories, each with their own challenges:

Startup CEOs (and VCs who love them) are operating in a very tough environment right now. For VCs deploying capital, there has never been a better time, but for founders that are already funded and working to get to the next milestone, things are tough. What makes this period particularly challenging, I think, is that the bar for the next financing round is rising very rapidly.

The technical stuff:Angular is an inception-stage fund. We prefer to invest in the first institutional round. We are often the first investor a company has.Our first check is usually between $500K and $5M. We are set up to follow on throughout the life of a company.It’s never too early. We often invest pre-revenue, pre-product, or pre-company. We’ve also invested in companies that achieved meaningful traction before raising venture capital.We are focused on companies/founders that originate from

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