Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

AI at Pre Seed: The Struggle with No Traction #venturecapitalist #founder #siliconvalley

15 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Charles Hudson discusses why pre-seed AI startups struggle to gain traction. Without measurable metrics or real user data, it's hard to embed AI meaningfully. Direct conversations with founders often beat AI-customized models, and Hudson's portfolio of 400+ companies gives him a chance to surface investor perception insights during fundraising.

Pre seed.
Also, kind of embedding AI tools is difficult because there's typically no traction whatsoever.
So ingesting.
Any type of metrics or traction into a model that you've customized is. I don't, I don't know what the output. I mean, I played around with it, but ultimately it lands out in stuff that's probably like 25% of the way that I could get it if I just chatted with the founder directly.
It does open the door for opportunities to support founders within our portfolio, and I think specifically within our own team at 400 plus companies. And I know we've talked about, like, what are some ways that maybe we can bubble up insights about perception of investors when our founders want to go out to raise.