The Importance of Consumer Faced Startups

About 80 to 90 percent of the portfolio companies are already leveraging AI in some fashion. Carrie: We're finding ways where if they can put their people first and then enable some of the back end processes to be leveraged through AI that enables them to have more human element even though they're taking advantage of these new technologies. She says traditionally for VCs the consumer segment is risky you're against giant global conglomerates who are also innovating. "We feel like as much as there's dollars going into the ecosystem there's a lot of needs still being unmet for consumers," she adds.