Inside the AI-Powered VC: How Investors Are Actually Using AI

AI is quickly becoming part of the venture capital toolkit, but what does that actually look like in practice?

This session will bring together VC investors for a practical look at how they’re incorporating AI into their day-to-day work. Each investor will give a short presentation highlighting a real use case from their workflow from sourcing and market research to diligence, portfolio support, and internal operations—including what they’re using, how they’re using it, and where AI still falls short.

Following the presentations, we’ll bring the investors together for a conversation about how AI is changing the way venture firms operate, where it can meaningfully improve investor decision-making, and which parts of the job still depend on human judgment, relationships, and experience.

Rachel ten Brink '01, General Partner and Co-founder, Red Bike Capital

Mirit Lugassi, Associate,Laconia Capital

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Arbour Lane Capital Management

Rachel ten Brink '01Rachel ten Brink is General Partner and co-founder of Red Bike Capital, an early stage Venture Capital fund based in New York that invests in Applied AI across Fintech, Commerce Infrastructure and Healthcare. She is the co-founder of Scentbird, the world's largest fragrance subscription. It is backed by Y-Combinator, a Top YC Company by Revenue (top 1% of all YC companies) and raised $30M in venture funding. Rachel was CMO/CRO leading Growth and Revenue, scaling the company to half a billion in revenue and signing over 94 enterprise customers. Prior to Scentbird she spent two decades as an operator building billion-dollar brands at Procter & Gamble, Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, and L’Oreal. Rachel holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, and graduated magna cum laude from Babson College.Mirit LugassiMirit Lugassi is an investor at Laconia Capital, a New York-based seed firm specializing in applied AI and B2B software for enduring industries, where legacy systems are no longer enough. She is a former fintech operator turned VC; she led growth and customer operations at B2B software companies across the US, Europe, Israel, and the UK—including Head of Growth & Customer Success at DueDil (acquired by Artesian) and VP of Customer Operations at an early‑stage edtech. Before Laconia, she helped build 51 Unicorns (an investment club for female retail investors) and SeedImpact (connecting mission‑driven angels with underrepresented founders). She is an Included VC alumna, has an NBA and is a qualified NY lawyer.

Mamoon KhalidMamoon Khalid is the head of Artificial Intelligence of Arbour Lane Capital Management, focusing on building the next generation of agentic tools for the investment management industry. Previously he worked in VC where he focused on investments in Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Drone technologies, VR/AR and SaaS. Mamoon holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from NYU and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences.