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Why Most VC Agents Fail Before the Agent Even Runs
I'm excited to share one of the most watched sessions from the Virtual DDVC Summit 2026 today!
Yohei Nakajima, GP at Untapped Capital and the creator of BabyAGI, has been running agentic experiments inside his fund for more than three years. He's shipped them, broken them, and rebuilt them.
His session is a frank tour of what's worked, what's collapsed under its own maintenance cost, and what he's stopped trying to build entirely.
His core argument cuts against most "AI in VC" advice you've read.
Better prompts and bigger models are secondary.
The foundation is a better operation.
Watch if you want to learn:
Why "strong agents start with a strong org"; the lesson Yohei wishes he'd internalised three years earlier, and what it means for how you sequence your AI roadmap
The counter-intuitive advice to start with experimental, low-stakes workflows rather than your biggest bottleneck, and why getting this wrong is costly
What small composable agents actually look like in practice at a working fund
How what your firm chooses to automate reveals what it thinks its job is (access vs. conviction, with two real-world examples)
The concrete stack Yohei uses today: for system of record, deep diligence, knowledge graph memory, and why he stopped running dozens of parallel experiments at once at once
The maintenance trap that consumed most of his last 12 months, and the architectural decisions that finally got him out of it
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