Sure Valley Ventures has been running on AI agents for 18 months. Now it’s open-sourcing everything it learned: Here’s what’s inside

July 30, 2026

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Barry Downes, managing partner at Sure Valley Ventures

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Only 34% of venture capital firms use AI for diligence. Barry Downes thinks that number should surprise the industry, and he has spent 18 months building the proof that the gap is far wider than most investors want to admit. There’s a version of AI a...

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Sure Valley Ventures has been running on AI agents for 18 months. Now it’s open-sourcing everything it learned: Here’s what’s inside

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US investors are now as active as UK investors in Europe, but the idea that ‘seed stays local’ is showing some cracks

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Sure Valley Ventures has been running on AI agents for 18 months. Now it’s open-sourcing everything it learned: Here’s what’s inside

AI agent Instinct seeks $1B at $10B valuation in talks with Sequoia, Benchmark

EU’s €5B Scaleup Europe Fund in talks to back ElevenLabs’ $500M raise

London’s Magentic raises $18M to build AI agents that diagnose, plan, and act across terabytes of procurement data

Exclusive: mika raises €6M to replace Germany’s tax adviser with AI. Check out its pitch deck

US investors are now as active as UK investors in Europe, but the idea that ‘seed stays local’ is showing some cracks

Pitch deck: Primo grabs $8M from Mistral AI backer Headline to fix accidental IT manager problem

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