VC investors to rely more on AI than a gut feel by 2025: Gartner

“Successful investors are purported to have a good ‘gut feel’ — the ability to make sound financial decisions from mostly qualitative information alongside the quantitative data provided by the technology company,” Patrick Stakenas, Senior Research Director at Gartner, said in a statement.

“However, this ‘impossible to quantify inner voice’ grown from personal experience is decreasingly playing a role in investment decision making. The traditional pitch experience will significantly shift by 2025 as VC and private equity (PE) investors turn to leveraging AI and data science insights for due diligence.”

Gartner predicts that by 2025, the AI- and data-science-equipped VC or PE investor will become commonplace.