Crypto funds moving into robotics and hardware may be an adverse-selection trap as LPs question mandate creep and post-2021 returns converge with regular venture.Cloudflare’s guardrailed, chain-agnostic wallets could make identity and authorization a value layer, while Circle’s 7% revenue growth, falling USDC supply, 62% distribution share, and November’s Western Union bet leave monetization unresolved.

Harry Stebbings × Paul Erlanger

FOMO raised a $75M Series B at a $550M post-money valuation from Index and USV, with founders anchoring the price before receiving a term sheet.Its 17-person, AI-enabled organization has no meetings, 1:1s, or hierarchy, while founder-grade equity aligns a small group for a decade-long build.Pre-IPO perps and thesis-driven trading could define its global wedge, but SpaceX’s retail performance and prediction-market regulation remain key tests.

Yiwen × Jove × Oliver Søe

OpenAI成立Deployment Company并收购Tomorrow带走150名FDE，Anthropic也与Blackstone等成立合资企业，模型公司正下场做企业部署。FDE按结果而非工时收费，AI coding与skills提升复用和迭代效率，但数据平台、确定性流程及人才供给仍是规模化落地的关键变量。

Avichal Garg × Jason Yanowitz

AI’s dominance makes early-stage entry difficult, pushing Electric Capital toward cold spots such as crypto.Certora’s formal verification could become critical as AI-powered attacks target DeFi securing billions.Stablecoin rails may let 5-6 billion people with limited U.S. market access pay higher P/E multiples for on-chain cash flows, though token re-rating depends on durable revenue and buybacks.

Ceteris × Jason × Yan × Jose × Kevin

Crypto’s 2026 stock-pickers’ market favors structural flows, revenue, or strong narratives; Venice shows the fundamental case with roughly $60M ARR and weekly additions above $2.5M.Falling VVV issuance and a clean, self-funded structure could support at least $200M of additional ARR, but value transfer is not guaranteed as L1 token accrual breaks down and HYPE expands beyond crypto.

Harry Stebbings × Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Siemiatkowski argues that near-zero software creation costs and one-click data migration could push threatened SaaS revenue multiples from 5–10x toward utility-like 1–2x, while enterprises reorganize around secure Lego-like components and agents.Klarna’s workforce fell from more than 7,000 to fewer than 3,000, with fewer than 2,000 possible by 2030, but whether AI-driven information compression reduces compute demand or consumer generation overwhelms those savings remains unresolved.

Harry Stebbings × Raaz Herberg

The panel frames 2026 as a potential IPO supercycle, with SpaceX, Anthropic, and Databricks potentially representing $1.4T of market capitalization and roughly $700B returned to venture, though timing remains exposed to market conditions.AI-app valuations such as Harvey at $8B depend on sustained growth and market dominance while deep-reasoning advances could obsolete today’s products, and Airwallex’s $8B price highlights both Asia-discount opportunity and China data-risk scrutiny.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy × Karim Atiyeh

Ramp is moving beyond LLM-assisted work toward agents embedded in finance workflows, with a policy agent enforcing expense rules 24/7 and inferring undocumented policies from customer behavior.The shift from TPV to paid software accelerated growth because customers demanded more, but agent pricing remains unresolved as Ramp expands from cards into self-driving finances and evaluates which payment rails ultimately matter.