Pathways to Startup Success
London Business School
A course on venture capital, startup language, and the funding landscape for aspiring founders.
Entrepreneur · Investor · Lecturer
Illai Gescheit
I am a four-time startup founder, investor, and lecturer. Today I advise founders and venture funds, teach Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, and build a new company called Between Ventures.
Essays
Illai's Newsletter
AI is a new type of 'Intelligence Capital'
A framework for seeing AI not as a productivity tool, but as a new class of capital that is eating other types of capital alive.
Illai's Newsletter
The 2x2 of Building & Funding AI Ventures
A simple matrix for founders and investors to position themselves when building and funding AI ventures.
Illai's Newsletter
Founding Choices when starting an AI Startup
Strategic choices AI founders face at the earliest stages of company building.
Illai's Newsletter
AI Made Ventures Great Again!
Why the time to $100M ARR is collapsing and what it means for early-stage venture capital.
Medium
Between Ventures
Reflections on founding four startups and the awkward feeling of building between ventures.
Lectures
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
London Business School
Teaching the next generation of founders how to think strategically about new ventures.
Mastering the AI-Driven Lean Startup
Maven
A live cohort course on how AI is transforming Lean Startup methods and validation cycles.
Introduction to AI-Driven Lean Startup
Maven / Webinar
A practical introduction to the 3A Framework, Business Model Canvas, and AI-driven discovery.
Research
AI + Entrepreneurship Research
Harvard IQSS Startup Foundry
Exploring how AI is reshaping entrepreneurship, venture building, and startup strategy.
Intelligence Capital
Gescheit & Partners
Research into AI as a new type of capital and its implications for founders and investors.
About
My work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, and artificial intelligence. I have founded and built companies across enterprise software, consumer technology, healthtech, climate tech, and energy.
I am an Executive Fellow at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a LinkedIn Top Voice, where I write about the practical realities of building ventures and investing in them.