At Earlybird, Andre Retterath built the firm’s AI and data systems for finding and evaluating startups himself, drawing on a PhD in machine learning and venture data, and he’s benchmarked his screening model against 114 human investors, matching their accuracy while focusing on catching promising companies that might otherwise get missed. He also writes Data Driven VC, a newsletter followed by more than 45,000 people, where he explores how data can help find founders outside the usual networks while still leaving final investment decisions to humans.