Founder Lab πŸš€ Replace a $20K growth team with one AI agent?


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πŸ“ˆ 16 Mega VC Deals impacted by AI

  • Investors poured $25.7 billion into venture-backed deals in June 2025
  • AI implementation is required to raise VC funding. 50% of the largest 16 funding deals in 2025 are pure AI, 25% are AI native, and the remaining are on-boarding themselves to AI. In other words, if you want to be a top funded company, you need to implement AI intelligently, and correct, and, fast.
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🎟️ VC Pitch Opportunity + RSVP

Mercedes Bent @ Lightspeed Ventures (July 30th)​

Mercedes will be listening to pitches from our founders on Wednesday, she's been a top VC for years and is a venture partner at Lightspeed. She's bullish on Meta Smarglasses, which have built-in camera, open-ear audio, microphone, Meta AI, and Livestreaming capabilities. Read more below on how to attend or apply.

Why Meta Smart Glasses?

Let me repeat, because it's critical, we are looking for CEOs of startups benefiting from Meta Smartglasses, or Snap Spectacles, for this pitch event.

Why RSVP?

  • You join and learn something from an incredible VC who has managed $100M's, and worked at a $25 Billion dollar VC since 2019. She's now their Venture Partner, and hungry to share her perspective on AI and smartglasses.

Why Pitch?

  • You apply to pitch, you get accepted, you pitch live during our Money Cage recording. She loves you, you get funded by her, you grow into a Unicorn. You buy a yacht. Etc :)

How you can take advantage?

  • You should /Subscribe for our livestream to make sure this is on your calendar, and if you feel your startup qualifies then you should /apply​
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πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ AI Experiments in the Founder Lab:

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Founder question: β€œCan I replace a $20 K/mo growth team with AI agents?”

Answer: Yes! But....

But nobody is 100 % sure how, yet. That’s why we need to discover it together. Every top founder I know is figuring out how their company can benefit from AI. So we're launching 3 months of AI experiments where your founders are the scientists.

Come build the AI future with us. There's no better way to raise a bunch of capital and close customers than to have a genuine advantage with AI.

Make your business better with AI.

Join us.

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Don Stein

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🎟️ VC Pitch Opportunity + RSVP Mercedes Bent @ Lightspeed Ventures (July 30th) Mercedes will be listening to pitches from our founders on Wednesday, she's been a top VC for years and is a venture partner at Lightspeed. She's bullish on Meta Smarglasses, which have built-in camera, open-ear audio, microphone, Meta AI, and Livestreaming capabilities. Read more below on how to attend or apply. Why Meta Smart Glasses? Let me repeat, because it's critical, we are looking for CEOs of startups...