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Brought to you by Affinity - The State of AI Investing

AI is moving from concept to reality in private capital. Hear from experts at BlackRock, OpenAI, and Affinity as they explore how AI is reshaping workflows, unlocking new insights, and redefining what’s possible for deal teams.

This session is built for investors looking to understand where AI can drive real value and how to assess readiness across their portfolio and the broader ecosystem.

In a world where new tools pop up every day, it remains difficult to stay on top and test each and every product yourself.

My hack?

Taking my peers as proxy: I regularly ask my “tool nerd” friends about their latest discoveries and most powerful tools. While some tools like ChatGPT, Granola or SuperHuman have become common standard, the diversity of products has never been greater than today.

I learn something new from every ask.

Even more reason to establish a regular “tool discovery” muscle and keep updating your stack as you go. If you haven’t replaced or added at least 3 new tools in the past year, you’re likely missing out and will fall further behind your peers every day.

To make the tool discovery as easy as possible for our DDVC community, I’ve kept sharing the evolution of my own tech stack in this newsletter over the years. For example, I recently compared how my stack has changed from summer 2023 to today.

In the same vein, we’ve developed VCSTACK.COM for our DDVC community to access all resources, tools, templates, automations, and more in one place + VC Tool Finder (available in beta) to compare your own tool stack to 500+ other investment firms, grouped by fund characteristics such as fund size, AUM, and stage focus to keep it anonymized yet useful.

Today, I’m happy to share with you a related post by a16z Partner Olivia Moore on how her AI investor tool stack looks like today, including a few words on how she uses it.

Here are her top 10 tools + 2 potential alternatives each that I’d recommend checking out: