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💥 An AI agent breached McKinsey's platform in under 2 hours. 46.5M chats. 728K files. System prompts for 40K+ consultants, exposed. 3 more major incidents have happened since: Axios, Mercor & Meta's Sev-1. To close the gap, a new security stack is emerging 👇 [🧵 1/7]

Check out the AI Use Case Library: real VC workflows with exact prompts, step-by-step instructions, & example outputs. Prep for board meetings or surface portfolio trends in minutes. Explore now → bit.ly/42ZktuK [🧵 2/2]

Until recently, AI-generated analysis was "cool" but not useful for mission-critical work like portfolio analysis. That's changed. We're seeing real production workflows running on AI inside VC fund today. [🧵 1/2]

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👨‍⚕️ Digital Health Founders Newly funded founders building AI-native tools for clinical workflows, drug discovery, and payor ops. ▪️ Mas Hossain (Case Health AI) ▪️ Shaheer Aslam Joiya (Synthax) ▪️ Ben Thomas (Amply Discovery) ▪️ Louis Verdonckt (Cavell) ▪️ Faisal Rafiq (@NextvisitAI ) [🧵 3/4]

Q1'26 was the strongest first quarter for digital health funding since the pandemic peak, $7.4B globally. Every digital health unicorn minted in 2025 had AI at its core. This week's Tip-Offs spotlights Digital Health → [🧵 1/4]

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🧑‍💻 Agentic Finance Founders Newly minted founders building financial infrastructure for AI agents. ▪️ Susan O'Neill (@paygentic ) ▪️ Vyas Krishnan (@navaai ) ▪️ Kahlil Lalji (@naturalpay) ▪️ Ghali Bennani Laafiret (Ralio) ▪️ Viggo Stenseth (@solvapay ) [🧵 3/4]

@stripe , @Plaid, @Square — all built on one premise: a person is on the other end of the transaction. That assumption breaks the moment an agent is the buyer. This week's Tip-Offs spotlights Agentic Finance → [🧵 1/4]

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🧑‍💻 Agentic Finance Founders Newly minted founders building financial infrastructure for AI agents. ▪️ Susan O'Neill (@paygentic) ▪️ Vyas Krishnan (@navaai) ▪️ Kahlil Lalji (@naturalpay) ▪️ Ghali Bennani Laafiret (Ralio) ▪️ Viggo Stenseth (@solvapay ) [🧵 3/4]

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🧑‍💻 Legal AI Founders Recently funded lawyers-turned-founders building AI-native legal services. ▪️ Logan Brown (@SoxtonAI) ▪️ Jen Berrent (Covenant) ▪️ Pamir Ehsas (@ArclineLegal) ▪️ Javed Qadrud-Din (@gen_legal_inc) ▪️ Patrick Ip (Theo Ai) [🧵 3/4]

79% of legal AI funding copies the same playbook: selling tools to law firms. Per @ycombinator, the bigger bet: skip the law firm entirely. Staff agents. Compete directly. This week's Tip-Offs: Legal AI and the rise of AI-native law firms → [🧵 1/4]

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🧑‍💻 Autonomous AI Agent Founders ▪️ @mukeshbansal06 | @AI_NURIX ▪️ @eferber | Synthpop ▪️ @siavashg | @stillaai ▪️ Tarek Alaruri | @StuutAI ▪️ @davipar | @maisaAI_ [🧵 3/4]

💰The largest labor arbitrage in decades is underway. AI agents are becoming the new default labor force for knowledge work — law, finance, consulting — at near-zero marginal cost. This week's Tip-Offs: Agent Employees → [🧵 1/4]