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Venture is quietly automating itself. Databases like Harmonic and Specter crawl the world for new companies, while agents draft market maps, memos, even outbound. The traditional apprenticeship model – years of manual sourcing and spreadsheet penance – starts to look structurally hollowed out.

If everyone has the same signals, does edge migrate back to relationships and taste? Or do private markets slowly quantise into a weird, low-liquidity cousin of public-market quant, where models move faster than people and “knowing” a founder becomes less of a framing.

I liked this article and this one. This guy also knows his stuff on the space.

Mike

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