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Why agentic tech?
Once I learn {that a} new enterprise agency referred to as ex/ante had raised $33 million to spend money on “agentic tech,” I bought curious: What did that imply, and why had been LPs comparable to Marc Andreessen and Union Sq. Ventures keen 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 spend money on on-line privateness and safety, and described agentic tech as “a fledgling time period that the fund defines as expertise that pertains to human company and rights within the digital age.” However I nonetheless wished to know extra, so I had a chat with its founder, 32-year-old Zoe Weinberg.