Date: 2/2

Background: Investment team at Audacious Ventures, MZ is ex-KP, Gradient Ventures, and YC; Kasey is ex-Glasswing, Rough Draft (student fund of GC)

• Details under the hood — GTM piece
• Plaid — alternative lending, Coinbase — needed to do some early transfers
• Developer adoption — not a pure play dev tools company, but adopted by company’s in early innings
• Larger enterprise sales motion
• IFIClaims — https://www.ificlaims.com/start.htm
• Prior art — things that are orthogonal, but want to overlap
• Boolean concepts, LLMs + traditional NLP to parse through the documents

• Step 0: are people also pursuing things
• New grad drive — high drive, high intensity
• Balance — very difficult
• Ideation: don’t be too open in the mindset, don’t have tunnel vision, but also don’t want to be building in a small TAM
• What do you guys naturally orient towards?
• Applied AI: coming in with AI experience, want to build a product that they want to target
• Should be a problem you’re inherently curious about in one form or another