Inside the VC AI Workflow
How Investors Are Actually Using AI
In this post, Courtney Bland (Lynx Venture Fellow & 1st year MBA at NYU Stern) shares her observations on the AI tools VCs are using in their daily workflows
In the past few months I’ve had the chance to sit down with a lot of investors across NYC, including at last week's Lynx Collective quarterly VC dinner. If there's one thing that keeps coming up across all of those conversations, it's AI tools and how fast everyone's workflows are shifting.
Here are the tools that keep coming up:
Wispr Flow (voice dictation & note taking)
Claude Code (AI coding assistant) - Check out Melody Koh’s Substack for tips
Claude Cowork (collaborative writing & brainstorming)
Tasklet (workflow automation)
Granola (meeting note summarizer)
GenSpark (LP presentation sharing)
Yutori (AI productivity assistant)
Super Agent (workflow automation)
Cluely (negotiation intelligence tool)
Exa.ai (targeted web search for sourcing)
Juicebox (portfolio company hiring & GTM support)
There was also a large emphasis on honing prompting skills to make the most of these tools, a skill most people are still developing and frankly, is largely learned through practice. Investors also shared their opinions on some of the most helpful uses for both these tools and more well-known LLMs. Many of these could be used in any job or project, and I have found them helpful for everything from data analysis to conference coordination. Some of the most popular included:
Generating auto-recap emails each morning to get up to speed quickly
Event planning leveraging the tools’ superior memory
Creating detailed To Do lists
Uploading handwritten memos to generate new ones based on them
The tools are evolving on a weekly cadence now, faster than most people realize. What investors were using a month ago already looks different today, and that gap will only widen. I’m looking forward to continuing to test, refine, and learn from the people around me as the pace keeps accelerating.
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