Agentic AI is revolutionising how startups are built. Just about every business process in every industry is now up for grabs as a new generation of founders frantically works out the best ways of deploying AI agents in the real world and building new businesses.

Stand aside unicorns. Here come the donkeycorns
Rather than trying to hunt down rare and elusive unicorns, some VCs are targeting thousands of smaller AI-led startups
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John Thornhill is Sifted’s editorial director and cofounder. He is also innovation editor of the Financial Times, and tweets from @johnthornhillft

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