IVCA Preview: Panel Event ‘Leveraging AI to Transform VC & PE Firms’ on October 7th, 2025 at the Chicago Club
October 1, 2025
The IVCA, along with sponsor Ropes & Gray and Baker Tilly, will be hosting the panel event, “Leveraging AI to Transform VC & PE Firms” on October 7th, 2025, moderated by Martin Ruhaak, Partner at Ropes & Gray. The event will feature real-world use cases and candid insights from investors who are integrating AI into their workflows, not just investing in AI companies.
Scheduled to appear on the panel will be Ryan Beauchamp, Managing Director at GTCR, Jeff Cantalupo, Managing Partner & Founder at Listen Ventures and Paul Hsu, CEO & Founder at Decasonic Venture/Digital Assets Fund. The chat topics will include how firms are using AI to improve workflow, strategies in use within portfolio companies, the art of what is possible & next, becoming AI native at the GP level and real-world approaches from active investors.
As a preview to the panel event, Paul Hsu – from a recent Decasonic session and presentation – pulled out a couple of examples what Decasonic is implementing regarding the above chat topics …
IN HOUSE AI AGENTS
A demonstration of AI networks built for Venture workflows, showing AI evaluating product-market fit, underwriting, and networking at scale. A major theme … AI-native teams are scaling faster and with fewer people, leading to an organizational shift.
Decasonic’s 80-agent roster had examples like AI Agent Emma, a networking concierge, and “Edison,” an AI analyst … emphasizing modular specialization and performance-based agent swaps.
IMPLICATIONS FOR BUILDERS OR INVESTORS
For builders, there was a call to embrace AI not as automation, but augmentation. Modular, agent-based workflows enable startups to scale faster with better decision-making.
For investors, it underscored the need to adopt or back teams that are AI-native – those who use AI to enhance every stage of research, diligence, and execution. The age of human/AI co-leadership is here.
At the IVCA panel event, these examples will be expanded upon, explained and connected to the workflow elements of Private Equity and Venture Capital. Join us for this cutting edge AI presentation.
The next IVCA Panel event – sponsored by Ropes & Gray and Baker Tilly – will be ‘Leveraging AI to Transform VC & PE Firms’ on October 7th, 2025 (11:30a-1:30p) at the Chicago Club, 81 East Van Buren Street, Chicago. For details and registration info, click here.