Venture Capital AI Trends
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Kate McAndrew shares her experience with venture capital AI and how it is disrupting the industy. She also talks about unconventional journey into venture capital, from studying art history at McGill to running an accelerator in the Southeast before moving to San Francisco and co-founding Baukunst, a $100M fund focused on pre-seed investments. Kate discusses the venture capital cycle, the advantages of investing at the earliest stages, and the high-risk, high-reward nature of her approach.
We discuss...
- Kate McAndrew shares her unconventional journey into venture capital, starting with an art history degree and entrepreneurial ventures.
- She explains the venture capital cycle, highlighting her focus on the earliest stages of company building.
- The fund emphasizes technology and design-driven innovation over pure tech solutions.
- Kate believes strong businesses with real enterprise value naturally find successful exits.
- She describes how her firm supports founders through recruiting, product strategy, and board participation.
- Kate argues that despite industry changes, great businesses are always built by great founders.
- Mega venture capital funds now dominate the market, reshaping valuations and the early-stage funding landscape.
- Top talent will always attract capital, and fund managers must focus on identifying exceptional companies rather than investing in every deal.
- The venture capital model prioritizes upside potential over downside protection, unlike private equity.
- The AI investment landscape is shifting from infrastructure to application-layer innovations.
- AI is becoming an essential part of all new technology companies, much like mobile technology once did.
- AI adoption may take longer than expected due to human behavioral factors and trust issues.
- SEO and traditional search-based marketing may become obsolete as AI-generated responses improve.
- AI is moving toward full automation of specialized white-collar jobs, raising concerns about economic and societal impacts.
- Some in Silicon Valley are focused on ensuring AI development aligns with ethical and environmental responsibility.
- While AI will disrupt many industries, human connection and purpose-driven work will remain valuable.
Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Phil Weiss | Apprise Wealth Management
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, the Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome this week's show. |
| 0:13.0 | My name's Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host. |
| 0:16.0 | So today I'm joined with Kate McAndrew. |
| 0:18.0 | How you know today, Kate? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm great. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a beautiful day in San Francisco. |
| 0:21.6 | It's always beautiful in San Francisco, isn't it? Yeah, we occasionally get rain and call it winter, |
| 0:26.8 | but, you know, so far, so good. Good. Glad you're getting all the good weather. We're in Boston and |
| 0:31.5 | snow's pretty much all the time, so it's good. We're getting the other half of that. So, Kate, for people who don't know you, maybe you can tell us something about your background and how you get started as a VC. |
| 0:41.1 | So I've been in venture capital since 2012, which, oh my gosh, that's getting up there in the number of years. |
| 0:47.3 | I didn't start in the way that most VCs start. The typical path is go to Harvard or Stanford, get a CS degree, go to a couple years in management |
| 0:55.3 | consulting, and then maybe you get, you know, a role at a big firm. And that was not at all the |
| 0:59.8 | trajectory that I took. I actually went to McGill University in Montreal after growing up in |
| 1:04.3 | LA, studied art history and cultural studies, which, you know, at the time felt as far away |
| 1:08.9 | from the business school as you could get. But I was also |
| 1:11.1 | always entrepreneurial. I was always starting companies and was very early in kind of the |
| 1:15.6 | social media kind of blogging kind of trend back in the day. So I started a consulting practice |
| 1:22.6 | after college kind of helping startups and medium-sized businesses, including some financial institutions, |
| 1:29.3 | learn what the heck Facebook was, you know, in the early 2000s, and then moved out to the |
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