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AI makes it "very easy to build something that looks good but doesn't have the depth" warns investor
Angel investor Jonathan Roizin breaks down the consequences of AI on the VC landscape that founders should be wary of.
Jonathan Roizin - - Summer Cocktail by Fusion VC 2026.
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“It used to be that you had a good story and then you build a good presentation around it... but now it's very easy to build something that looks good but doesn't have the depth,” said angel investor Jonathan Roizin. According to Roizin, the AI revolution has created an inundation of underbaked pitches, which more founders should be aware of before fundraising. “What I see very often is founders that fundraise when they're not prepared yet because they feel they're ready,” he continued, adding it's not difficult for VCs to differentiate when “it's just a very nice presentation, but the depth isn't there.”
Roizin spoke with CTech’s Amy Shapiro during the Summer Cocktail event in Tel Aviv hosted by Fusion VC, an event that drew together some of the most prominent venture investors in Israel.
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On the other side of the coin, despite creating an arguably oversaturated market of premature startups, AI, Roizin explained, is still integral to what investors are valuing today. He expressed that even if a startup is looking to solve a traditional problem, “the execution has to be extremely AI oriented.” He specified that investors aren’t just looking for an AI component to be incorporated into a product, but that a company's operation and execution must "live with live AI, breathe AI, and every single step that they do has to be around leveraging AI in order to conquer the market as fast as possible.”
You can watch the full conversation in the video above.
