Simone Beckett said half the 2024 AI seed class was a wrapper with a burn rate that wouldn't reach a Series A; a year on, 62 percent hadn't raised again.
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Harper Quinn00:11:33–00:11:44
That's a shot at half the people who come on this show.
Simone Beckett00:11:46–00:11:58
It's not a shot, it's a cohort analysis with feelings removed.
Half the 2024 AI seed class is a wrapper with a burn rate. Most of them will never see a Series A, and everyone funding them knows it.
Harper Quinn00:12:28–00:12:36
You'll get emails.
Simone Beckett00:12:38–00:12:46
I'll get thank-you notes in eighteen months.
Harper Quinn00:29:50–00:29:58
What do founders not read that they should?
Simone Beckett00:30:00–00:30:34
A term sheet in a hot round is read for about eleven minutes. The clause that resets your life is on page nine, and page nine has never once been reached in eleven minutes.
Harper Quinn00:30:36–00:30:44
Page nine. Noted, and terrifying.
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Of that 2024 cohort, sixty-two percent didn't raise again. It wasn't cynicism, it was arithmetic, and the arithmetic was generous.
Harper Quinn00:24:28–00:24:36
Any thank-you notes?
Simone Beckett00:24:38–00:24:55
Two, actually. Both from founders who shut down early and kept the money to try again.
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Jun 23, 2026
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Jun 25, 2026
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