The Agentic VC Dojo

The Kauffman Fellowship — and its alumni Special Interest Groups — offer value that is treasured in venture: contextual knowledge: pattern recognition, relationships, exposure to deals and ideas across an unmatched network. Wisdom and acces are paramount in venture. Vital, and not going anywhere.

But the new VC operating environment creates an opportunity to be amplified by an updated procedural craft — using the rich features of myriad apps.

Now add AI: writing the prompts, wiring the agents, managing the context, artifacts and output; querying the data, hooking data up so it appears where it needs to be at the moment it needs to be.... Superpowers can now be harnessed to streamline the neverending, overwhelming workflow that is venture. Turning scattered signal into a partner-meeting-ready memo, making better decisions, multiplying deal scouting efforts, assuring ambient awareness of portfolio activity, auto-updating materials for LP outreach, and more.

Procedural knowledge emerges from doing - greasy elbows and calloused hands, not just heads and handshakes. It's a different muscle, learned by doing alongside peers who are also doing.

Dojos are a deliberate alteration of the SIG format for members of the Kauffman + adjacent VC community come to practice that craft together. It's complementary with the Fellowship, Society, and Network SIG activity.