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How leading VCs are using AI to source deals earlier, cover more ground, and move faster than the market.

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Deep Tech Investing
How VCs Are Using AI to Find Deep-Tech Deals 18 Months Before Formation
By the time a startup appears on Crunchbase, the deal is already done. Here's how forward-looking funds are moving sourcing upstream — into research papers, patent filings, and lab outputs — using AI to find the signal that matters.
March 31, 2026 · 8 min read Read article →
AI Scored Papers
Solid-state electrolyte synthesis via ALD
92
Room-temp superconductivity: LaBH₈ under 1GPa
87
Photonic neural network inference accelerator
74
CRISPR base editing for monogenic liver disease
71
Survey: transformer architectures for NLP
28
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Sourcing Workflow
The VC Research Stack in 2026: What Top Funds Are Actually Using
A breakdown of the tools, data sources, and workflows that leading deep-tech funds have built around AI-assisted sourcing — and what they've abandoned.
Coming April 2026
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Patent Intelligence
Reading Patent Filings Like a VC: The Signals That Predict Startup Formation
Not all patents are equal. Here's how to distinguish defensive filings from the narrow, application-specific claims that indicate a spin-out is imminent — and how AI surfaces them automatically.
Coming May 2026