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September 10, 2026

The panel question I'm not going to spoil

AI is already changing who gets funded

Last week, I wrote about how geography still dictates who gets in the room. This week, let's talk about something changing the landscape faster than we can comprehend: AI.

Scroll down to the events section and you'll see September is apparently the month I speak about AI from all different angles. Prepping for these talks has made me face some deeper questions. AI is already changing fundraising, so it isn't a question of if, but of how. Ten years ago when I was raising for my med device company, I spent half of every meeting just explaining what machine learning even was. Today the term barely registers.

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