Karmi: AI founders can build MVPs and acquire clients before raising capital
Eyal Karmi · Empowering Innovation: The Intersection of Corporate Venture Capital and AI-Driven Startups · May 14, 2025 · at 49:26
Eyal Karmi, founder of Nakuda, discusses how AI tooling has shifted early-stage startup dynamics, eliminating the need to raise capital before building an MVP.
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“Also, there's no reason in this era why you can't get into, let's say a working MVP. And maybe if even a few clients before you start raise and definitely even before you pitch a CBC or some market or big market participant and kind of no excuses. And before that, maybe you had to raise and have to have a big team before that, but now you can do it yourself.”
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