✍️Key Takeaways from the Virtual DDVC Summit 2025 (1/3)
TL;DR Version from 18 Expert Sessions & 35 Speakers
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Hi there!
What. A. Week. 🤯
Between Monday and last night, we had 35 world class speakers from firms like Accel, Atomico, BlackRock, NFX, and more sharing their unique behind-the-scenes perspectives across 18 keynotes and panels about data-driven innovation & AI in VC.
We’ve had 500 participants from all over the world joining us live, participating in Q&As, and watching the recordings as I write. Below are some selected impressions and comments from our participants (that make me really happy!):
Jean-François Van Besien: "Thank you, Andre, and all the speakers for a high-quality summit. I was truly fulfilled by my first attendance."
Yannique Hecht: "Great content, as always, Yohei! [The discussion on] which use cases & experiments [to keep vs. drop] was very helpful." - slightly edited for context
Ana Wolstajn: "Super insightful. Having experience in LP relations from the VC fund perspective, it's priceless (and so true)!"
Ivica Cerina: "Peter Walker, as always EXCELLENT WORK"
Valeriy Bykanov: "Very insightful panel!"
Martijn Rutten: "Thanks, really high quality!"
Sam Dreyfuss: "Great insights, Ali. Thank you."
Bill James: "Very interesting and great info, thanks for sharing!"
Dietlind Wittig: "That was really insightful. Thank you!"
Osama Abddallah: "Great and very useful content for implementing AI."
If you missed the conference, you can still buy a ticket to watch recordings until 19th March midnight CET, or join 150+ members in The Lab for unlimited access to recordings of the 2025 Summit, the 2024 Summit, all virtual roundtables, products, templates, AI agents, our community channels, get-togethers, and a lot more.
Be ensured that just the value of the Summit recordings is worth every penny and will save you tangible money & resources otherwise wasted via trial & error.
Different to many other conferences, the whole purpose of our DDVC Summit is to go super deep on specific topics like building a VC Copilot, compliant use of AI tools, hiring and growing tech teams in investment firms, and more.
To get the full value, we highly recommend (re)watching the recordings but…
… if you only have 3 minutes left, here’s the TL;DR of the Virtual DDVC Summit 2025 - Part 1/3
1. Compliant Use of AI Tools (with Norwest, BlackRock, Earlybird, EQT)
