We asked top startup investors how they use AI. Here’s what they said.

• VCs are increasingly using AI for market research and investment analysis in startups.
• Floodgate’s Ann Miura Ko uses AI to analyze field notes and identify patterns in AI startups.
• Craft Ventures’ Jeff Fluhr uses AI to prototype startup ideas and assess their viability.

Venture capitalists have spent the last few years hunting for the next great AI startup. Increasingly, they’re also using AI to scout for the next OpenAI or Anthropic.

Early-stage investors are weaving chatbots and agents into nearly every part of the job: mapping markets, stress-testing ideas, preparing for board meetings, and turning call transcripts into searchable knowledge bases.

Business Insider asked investors from this year’s Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists about how they use AI in their day-to-day work and which tools they rely on most. The following has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

For building a second brain

Salil Deshpande, general partner at Uncorrelated Ventures:

Ann Miura Ko, partner at Floodgate:

For finding new investments

Anne Dwane, cofounder and general partner at Village Global

Alex Bard, managing director at Redpoint Ventures:

Sarah Smith, general partner at Sarah Smith Fund:

For coding internal tools

Lan Xuezhao, founder and managing partner at Basis Set:

Janet Bannister, founder and managing partner at Staircase Ventures:

Jeff Fluhr, venture partner at Craft Ventures:

Shan-Lyn Ma, cofounder and co-CEO of Zola:

For prepping for pitches

Henry McNamara, partner at Great Oaks Venture Capital:

Sara Deshpande, general partner at Maven Ventures:

Jon Soberg, CEO and managing partner at MS&AD Ventures:

For spending more time IRL

Julie Lein, managing partner at Urban Innovation Fund:

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