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Why agentic tech?
Once I learn {that a} new enterprise agency known as ex/ante had raised $33 million to put money into “agentic tech,” I acquired curious: What did that imply, and why had been LPs similar to Marc Andreessen and Union Sq. Ventures prepared to again an rising fund supervisor specializing in this class?
I already had one thing to go on: Forbes’ Alex Konrad famous that ex/ante would put money into on-line privateness and safety, and described agentic tech as “a fledgling time period that the fund defines as know-how that pertains to human company and rights within the digital age.” However I nonetheless needed to know extra, so I had a chat with its founder, 32-year-old Zoe Weinberg.