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A Look into the Venture Capital Industry

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A Look into the Venture Capital Industry

A Look into the Venture Capital Industry

Scaling a startup is not easy, even if it has high growth potential. To get the necessary capital, expertise, and experience to grow, sometimes tech founders look to venture capitalists to solve the problem.

For the uninitiated, venture capital is financial capital raised by a group of investors for high-growth ventures in exchange for an equity stake in the company. The companies receiving this funding usually have a unique technology or business model that could have potential to make billions of dollars.

Unlike more traditional forms of investment such as stocks and bonds, venture capital tends to be put in companies that are private and are thus not trading in a liquid market. As a result, venture capitalists are not able to easily get their investments back. An exit, or liquidity event, must occur such as an IPO, merger, or acquisition.

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Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI

We visualized the results of an analysis by the World Economic Forum, which uncovered the jobs most impacted by AI.

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Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI

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Large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools haven’t been around for very long, but they’re expected to have far-reaching impacts on the way people do their jobs. With this in mind, researchers have already begun studying the potential impacts of this transformative technology.

In this graphic, we’ve visualized the results of a World Economic Forum report, which estimated how different job departments will be exposed to AI disruption.

Data and Methodology

To identify the job departments most impacted by AI, researchers assessed over 19,000 occupational tasks (e.g. reading documents) to determine if they relied on language. If a task was deemed language-based, it was then determined how much human involvement was needed to complete that task.

With this analysis, researchers were then able to estimate how AI would impact different occupational groups.

DepartmentLarge impact (%)Small impact (%)No impact (%)
IT73261
Finance70219
Customer Sales671617
Operations651817
HR57412
Marketing56413
Legal46504
Supply Chain431839

In our graphic, large impact refers to tasks that will be fully automated or significantly altered by AI technologies. Small impact refers to tasks that have a lesser potential for disruption.

Where AI will make the biggest impact

Jobs in information technology (IT) and finance have the highest share of tasks expected to be largely impacted by AI.

Within IT, tasks that are expected to be automated include software quality assurance and customer support. On the finance side, researchers believe that AI could be significantly useful for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing.

Still interested in AI? Check out this graphic which ranked the most commonly used AI tools in 2023.

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