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The Vanka Seed Fund THESIS

Seed capital allocation is broken. AI can fix it.

The Problem

Traditional Seed VC operates on a centuries-old model: deal flow comes from networks, decisions are made through hubris-tainted pattern-matching, and access is gated by who you know. This system systematically excludes talented builders who don’t fit narrow demographic profiles or lack connections to the right people.

The result? Brilliant founders get overlooked because they:

• Don’t have Stanford or Harvard on their CV

• Didn’t work at Google, Meta, or a hot startup

• Can’t get warm intros to YC, 500, A16Z, etc

• Are building in markets VCs don’t understand yet

Meanwhile, mediocre ideas get funded because the founder has the right pedigree and network.

The Opportunity

AI can evaluate business fundamental objectively. No bias towards prestigious schools. No pattern-matching to past successes. No gatekeeping based on social capital. Just cold, hard analysis of:

• Market opportunity size and timing

• Unit economics and capital efficiency

• Founder execution capability

• Business model viability

Vanka Seed Fund operates at unprecedented speed and scale. Traditional seed VCs make 10-20 investments per year because human evaluation doesn’t scale. AI can evaluate thousands of applications and make consistent, high-quality decisions. This means we can eventually back 365 founders per year instead of 12.

Transparency beats opacity. When you apply to a traditional VC, you have no idea why you were rejected. Was it your product? Your market? Your lack of a warm intro? With algorithmic selection, every applicant receives their Investment Score breakdown and specific feedback on how to improve.

Our Bet

The best founders are already AI-native. If you’re using Vanka to build your business, you’re demonstrating:

• Comfort with AI as a co-pilot

• Ability to execute quickly with limited resources

• First-principles thinking about business creation

• Willingness to embrace new paradigms

These are exactly the characteristics that predict startup success today — not where you went to school or who you know.

AI decisioning will outperform human decisioning. Not because AI is smarter, but because it is more consistent, more objective, and can operate at scale without fatigue or bias. We’re betting that a diversified portfolio of 365 objectively-selected founders will generate better returns than a concentrated portfolio of 20 network-selected founders.

Vanka Seed Fund is the future of seed capital allocation. In 10 years, the idea that investment decisions were made subjectively by humans with inherent biases will seem as antiquated as making hiring decisions without structured interviews. We’re building that future today.

What This Means For You

If you’re a talented founder building a real business with strong fundamentals, your access to capital should not depend on your network.

Vanka Seed Fund exists to prove this thesis, and back founders like you who are building the post-employment economy with AI as their operating system.