Underline Ventures

Two weeks ago in Istanbul, Bogdan joined the 🇹🇷CVC Bosphorus Summit ‘26 to talk about investing in the Eastern European region.

Next week in Sofia, Bogdan will be speaking at the Digitalk Conference, joining the VC Panel on the Learn and Share Stage - “The VC question: What gets funded when AI is everywhere”.

The current frantic race to implement AI, no matter the consequences, led Ciprian (Chip) Borodescu (Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Underline Ventures) to think of "engineering AI value".

In the traditional B2B SaaS world, value engineering is typically handled by the sales department. But AI-centric organizations must reimagine how they think of engineering value of product building, so Ciprian put timeless engineering principles to work to create 🫯The Framework for Engineering Agentic Value to serve the unique complexities of agentic systems.

Find out the framework in comments below.

[RO] “În Europa de Est putem construi orice. Suntem la același nivel cu SUA”, spune Andrei de la 👾 DesignVerse pentru Termene.ro. Urmăriți podcastul video aici: https://youtu.be/puk19gUeT9E?is=lT3dhLXpq8rlsk-a

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