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AI startups will need ‘quality of revenue’ to raise in 2025, seed VCs warn


To raise VC money next year, it won't just be about sales and growth, but about the "quality" of that growth, VCs say.

“This is what VCs mean when they talk about ‘you need to build moat,’” VC Elizabeth Yin, co-founder of Hustle Fund, said onstage. Riley offered as an example a Greylock portfolio company called Braintrust, which helps developers build and evaluate the performance of their AI apps. At the start of 2024, the boards of nearly every large company bit their nails over AI and allocated fat exploratory budgets to their CIOs to go buy products and explore.

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