Zuckerberg: Outlier AI growth makes fundraising harder for non-AI startups
Arielle Zuckerberg · Arielle Zuckerberg, "The Rizz & Tiz" Winning Founder Recipe · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Mar 14, 2025 · at 17:40
Arielle Zuckerberg, partner at Long Journey Ventures, discusses with Molly O'Shea how rapid AI startup growth has shifted investor benchmarks across the venture landscape.
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“Well, what I'm seeing is it's made it very difficult for non AI, AI companies to get funding. I think like a lot of folks are kind of expecting, like when there are companies out there going from zero to a 124 months, it kind of like resets the bar. And if you are a company that's growing really nicely, when previously you could get an amazing series A done, I think you're now being compared to these companies that are just blowing up because they're in AI or just because the demand is explosive for some other reason. But yeah, I think it's just, it's made it really difficult for companies who aren't growing in that way to get the attention that they deserve.”
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