{"id":865873,"date":"2026-08-23T20:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:06:21","slug":"airtree-ventures-warns-portfolio-founders-to-adapt-to-ai-or-face-exit-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865873\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtree Ventures warns portfolio founders to adapt to AI or face exit strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airtree Ventures has put founders of its vast portfolio of companies on notice that it will sell out of start-ups if they cannot show that their businesses are safe from the massive disruption caused by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The warning from one of the country\u2019s largest and most influential venture capital firms was issued as part of an update to investors earlier this year, a tightly held document obtained by The Australian Financial Review that said it \u201cwould be remiss to pretend\u201d AI was not hurting older start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airtree Ventures has put founders of its vast portfolio of companies on notice that it will sell out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-865873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}