Every startup has AI in their pitch deck and they should according to Forerunner Ventures' Eurie Kim

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Consumer startups have taken a hit when it comes to venture funding. But according to Eurie Kim, partner at Forerunner Ventures and founding member of All Raise, consumer is where it’s at. The investor joined Mary Ann Azevedo on Equity to talk through the intricacies of the space. She pointed out that last year, just 7% of seed capital went to consumer startups. Yet, research shows that consumer company performance has outpaced enterprise, Kim contends. Forerunner itself has backed the likes of Oura, Chime and Prose, among others.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Crunch's flagship podcast about the
0:15.5	business of startups. I'm Marianne Azevedo and this is our Wednesday
0:19.0	episode where we hone in on a trend in the startup world and dive deep.
0:23.0	Today we'll be talking about a number of topics, including the state of consumer investing,
0:27.8	the IPO market, and what it may look like going forward this year,
0:31.4	and the overall fundraising environment.
0:34.1	Joining us for today's conversation is Forerunner Ventures partner and founding member
0:38.5	of the female mentorship collective All-Rae's Yuri Kim.
0:42.4	Yuri, welcome to the show, we're so happy to have you. collective Allrays, Yuri Kim.
0:42.5	Yuri, welcome to the show.
0:43.6	We're so happy to have you.
0:45.2	Hi, Marianne, thanks for having me.
0:46.9	Yeah, no, we're thrilled.
0:48.3	You've got a really interesting background.
0:50.0	I know that prior to becoming a VC,
0:52.2	you were an operator operator is that right?
0:54.0	Yes for a short period of time but I had the entrepreneurial bug a long time ago before it was
0:59.2	really the school.
1:00.2	Yeah so you've been at Forerunner for 12 years now.
1:05.0	12 years, my 12 year anniversary was in May, early May.
1:08.0	Congratulations.
1:09.0	That's impressive.
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