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!! Startups Are on Fire — And Venture Capital Can’t Keep Up !!

Last fall, StackBlitz launched a new agentic app development platform called Bolt.new.

Eight weeks later?

They went from zero to $20M in annualized revenue.

No seed round. No Series A.

Just a killer team, sharp execution, and a product that hit fast and hard.
And it’s not just them.

Base44 is another wild case — basically a one-man show, and still pulling it off.

There are more like this popping up every month.

We’re watching the rise of “flash startups” — teams (or even solo builders) spinning up agentic AI apps, hitting the market in days, acquiring users, showing real traction, and being Series B-ready before they even think about raising.

So here’s the big question:

What does this mean for early-stage venture capital?

If a small group with the right skills can launch, ship, and scale in weeks — what’s left for traditional VCs to do?

GenAI already changed how we build.

Now it’s changing how we fund.

No wonder the old-school VCs are confused, frozen, or just watching from the sidelines.


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