{"id":"evt_17117fb51cb1","title":"VC Best Practices: State of AI Investing","date":"2025-10-21","timezone":"America/New_York","start_time":"08:30","time_of_day":"morning","venue":null,"location":{"basis":"unresolved","likely_area":null,"likely_area_granularity":null,"evidence":null},"description":"​Presented by nextNYC. VC Best Practices is an educational series for a group of relatively new investors who want to be exposed to the best venture and startup thinking. Each event is attended by accredited investors and non-partner VCs that skew intentionally, but not exclusively, toward underrepresented backgrounds. Billions have flooded into AI, but how much of it is smoke and mirrors? Where should first check investors be looking and what inning are we in during this investing cycle? Kristin McDonald (Eniac Ventures), Rob May (Half Court Capital) and Kira Noodleman (Bee Partners) cut through the hype to ask the hard questions: where’s the real value, what’s already overheated, and which bets will actually stand the test of time?","access":{"free":null,"application_required":null},"audience_roles":["investors"],"audience_orientation":"nontechnical","company_stage":null,"interaction":["content"],"topics":["ai","venture"],"modality":"in_person","meal_context":"none","series":null,"mentions":[{"text":"Bee Partners","kind":"organization","subtype":"company","role":"affiliation"},{"text":"Eniac Ventures","kind":"organization","subtype":"company","role":"affiliation"},{"text":"Half Court Capital","kind":"organization","subtype":"company","role":"affiliation"},{"text":"nextNYC","kind":"organization","subtype":"community","role":"organizer"},{"text":"Kira Noodleman","kind":"person","subtype":null,"role":"speaker"},{"text":"Kristin McDonald","kind":"person","subtype":null,"role":"speaker"},{"text":"Rob May","kind":"person","subtype":null,"role":"speaker"}],"sources":[{"id":"nextnyc","class":"newsletter","publisher":"nextNYC","first_observed_at":"2025-10-14T11:44:51.0000000Z","last_observed_at":"2025-10-20T11:44:57.0000000Z"}],"discovery":{"first_party":[],"newsletter":["nextnyc"],"provider":null},"basis":{"audience_roles":{"investors":"observed"},"topics":{"ai":"observed","venture":"observed"},"audience_orientation":"inferred","company_stage":null,"interaction":"observed","modality":"default"},"canonical_url":null,"first_seen":"2025-10-14T11:44:51.0000000Z","last_seen":"2025-10-20T11:44:57.0000000Z","observation_count":2}