AI for Venture Funds: Playbooks That Ship

​AI Mindset presents a tactical session in the Founder Operating System series: how venture funds are using AI now – to scout, to evaluate, to communicate.

​No trend-surfing. No ChatGPT-for-everything takes. Just the operating procedures VCs are already running:
→ Building live deal pipelines
→ Automating (but not dumbing down) diligence
→ Turning raw portfolio chaos into LP-ready signals

​Featured operators:

• ​Stepan Gershuni — VC at cyber•Fund
  → Crypto-native investor on AI in frontier tech, sourcing, and builder diligence

• ​Yury Shlahanau — Head of Scouting, ULTRA.VC
  → From signals to deals: structuring AI-assisted sourcing across Europe

• ​Stan Gogaev — Investment Relations, ULTRA.VC
  → AI for LP comms & portfolio fundraising: updates, narratives, targeting

​What You’ll Leave With

​ Scouting & Deal Flow

• ​How to turn messy, multi-source noise into ranked dealflow

• ​Playbooks for thesis-aligned sourcing using AI (no custom infra needed)

• ​AI-enhanced outreach that sounds human (because it is)

​Evaluation & Diligence

• ​Diligence memo scaffolds, red-flag surfacing, assumption maps

• ​Team signal extraction, market reality checks, moat sniff tests

• ​When to trust models—and when to override them

​LP Comms & Fundraising Support

• ​Turning portfolio chaos into LP-grade narratives

• ​Building investor updates that compound trust

• ​How AI supports founders raising: mapping, intro paths, data rooms

​This is For:

​VCs, platform teams, scouts, and founders who want to:

• ​build smarter pipelines

• ​speak LP

• ​run a 2025-native process without burning out your analyst

​ULTRA.VC — early-stage EU investor & accelerator betting on AI-powered products. Recent cohorts skew AI-first across health, productivity and education. Yury Shlahanau breaks down their AI-assisted scouting and analytics pipeline; Stan Gogaev shows how AI sharpens LP comms and portfolio fundraising playbooks.

​Stepan Gershuni — VC Principal, cyber•Fund. Represents one of the leading crypto-native funds behind Lido and other category leaders; shares how cyber•Fund operationalizes its AI×Crypto thesis across sourcing, diligence and post-investment support.

​AI Mindset — a practitioner-led lab & community turning AI into operating leverage for founders and funds. Organizer of the Founder Operating System series; we distill real workflows into playbooks, templates, and live demos—no hype, just tools that ship.