In 2025, the venture market demonstrates a paradox: despite the overall decline in funding for technology startups, investments in AI companies continue to grow. Capital investments in AI startups increased by 62% in 2024 compared to 2023, while the total volume of venture financing in the technology sector decreased by about 12%. This reflects a fundamental shift: investors are seeking tools that can accelerate processes, minimize the human factor, and manage risks on a global scale.
It is in this context that the story of Anna Mastykina, venture analyst and entrepreneur, takes on special significance. Her career is a clear example of how a combination of experience in accelerators, angel clubs, and venture funds led to the creation of a tool that reflects global industry trends.
How AI Is Changing the Venture Industry
Traditional venture fundraising has, for decades, remained a process dependent on networking, personal introductions, and manual research. Founders often spent weeks or even months building investor databases, studying portfolios, and drafting dozens of personalized emails—only to receive responses from a handful of recipients. Mistakes in prioritization—for example, pitching to funds that were not a good fit—cost companies not only time but also their reputation: reaching out again too soon was often perceived as unprofessional.
Against this backdrop, the introduction of AI tools has become a true turning point. Algorithms can analyze thousands of deals and public data in minutes, generate a "match score" between a startup and a fund, and immediately filter out irrelevant contacts. As a result, founders can shift their focus from searching to negotiating.
A new standard is emerging: manual research is giving way to automated platforms where AI doesn't just provide lists of contacts but builds the entire outreach infrastructure, all the way to scheduling meetings.
"Fundraising has always been associated with endless hours of manual work," says Anna Mastykina, venture analyst and entrepreneur. "But AI reduces the time spent on the most routine parts—building investor databases, analyzing matches, setting up outreach—from weeks to minutes. This allows founders to finally focus on strategy and product."
According to Kirill Lazarev, Founder at Raiz and venture scout at Flashpoint VC,"As a fundraiser who has helped startup clients raise over $5M, I focus on making the fundraising process more efficient and faster. With Taskinfinity.com, I've reduced fundraising preparation time from 160+ hours to just a few minutes—while maintaining high-quality, up-to-date investor data."
Taskinfinity, the platform founded by Mastykina, works precisely this way: AI matches startups with fund portfolios, predicts deal probability, and prepares the full chain of communication.
From University Hackathons to Venture Investments
Before launching her own venture, Anna built a career at the intersection of accelerators, angel investment clubs, and venture funds. She started in 2017 with the Insight by TDI accelerator and later became coordinator of TechMinsk, a program supported by Google for Startups. But her debut in tech began with organizing a university hackathon from scratch and with a zero budget. The Gen Z event brought together seven student teams; the High Tech Park provided a free venue, while Gurtam supported the initiative with mentors and funding for prizes and catering.
"Organizing a university hackathon with no budget taught me to build a system from scratch and find resources where they seemed to be absent. Later, I transferred this approach to fundraising," she recalls.
Her next step was leading the angel club investclub.vc, which grew to more than 140 members from different countries and secured deals worth $5M. The club brings together experienced founders, C-level executives, and angel investors, with membership available only by invitation and recommendation. Among its closed deals are Edudo, which raised $170,000 at pre-seed, and GamePad, which attracted $65,000 from members of investclub.vc and Volat Capital.
The experience highlighted that success in fundraising depends not only on effort but also on the right "match" between startup and fund.
From 2021 to 2023, Mastykina worked at AltaIR Capital, a European venture fund with over $600M AUM and a portfolio exceeding 350 startups, including early investments in Miro, PandaDoc, and Turing. She contributed to the analytical groundwork for several deals that later achieved successful exits. She analyzed more than 5,000 startups and prepared over 100 memos for investment committees. "This work gave me large-scale pattern recognition and a clear understanding of the criteria on which investment decisions are made," she explains.
The combination of accelerator experience, work with angel investors, and deep analytics at a top-tier fund provided the foundation for creating her own AI-based tool.
From Idea to AI Agent
In 2023, Mastykina and her team began building a solution for one of the most pressing founder problems: the routine and subjectivity of investor search. By 2024, they had developed an AI agent that manages the entire fundraising cycle: from identifying relevant funds and calculating match scores to setting up outreach infrastructure and organizing calls, reducing the time to prepare an investor base from 160+ hours to 5 minutes.
What makes Taskinfinity stand out is that it doesn't just provide lists of investors—it identifies the right partners and executes the entire outreach process end to end. In other words, the system builds a complete funnel: from initial match to investor meetings and follow-up automation. This approach turns what used to take weeks of manual research into a streamlined process that takes only minutes.
"Most tools on the market only provide lists. We went further: the founder receives not just a contact, but a complete chain of actions that leads to meetings with investors," explains Anna.
A clear example of this impact comes from JobHire.ai. "In just a month, Taskinfinity helped us connect with more than 60 investors," shares Artem Zakharov, Founder of JobHire.ai and former Product Director at Gett. "It completely changed the pace of our fundraising."
AI agent combines several functions: matching startups with portfolio deals of funds, identifying relevant partners, calculating match scores, and building the complete technical infrastructure for outreach—including purchasing domains, setting up email accounts, warming up emails, and preparing personalized messages: "On average, we make 25–40 calls per client over three months, and for startups with strong FOMO, up to 100 calls. This accelerates capital raising and at the same time increases the quality of matching."
The outcomes are measurable: $45M in attracted funds, over 1,500 calls with investors, more than 500 meetings, and term sheets totaling up to $150M. Cases include $23M for a proptech company at Series A, ~$1M for a healthtech startup in seven weeks, and $2.5M for a SaaS project at pre-seed in just a month.
Taskinfinity primarily focuses on Seed+ startups with operations in the US and Europe, where efficiency and speed of investor outreach are especially critical.
International Presence and Expert Recognition
Beyond product development, Mastykina is an active voice in the global venture ecosystem. She has served as a jury member for the Armenia Digital Awards, the Burning Heroes Startup Awards, and the NextGen Hackathon, and has spoken at Unicorn Events. In 2025, she was recognized as "Best Entrepreneur" at the international Cases&Faces Award. That same year, her team's product won the National Business Awards in the category "Innovation of the Year in Fundraising Solutions."
"Work on international platforms makes it possible not only to share experience but also to test our approaches in different markets," she says. "Every time we discuss with colleagues from the USA or Europe how to optimize the fundraising process, I get new ideas for improving the AI agent."
She also participates in founder communities, leads educational webinars, and publishes market analytics. "The exchange of knowledge and practices helps startups to find relevant investors faster and build a transparent funnel," she adds. Today, her approaches are used by startups and funds in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
A Netherlands-based startup advisor and former investment banker at a top-tier Dutch bank, who was Taskinfinity's first client, noted that it is one of the most practical fundraising platforms they've used, helping startups save valuable time through its intelligent matching system and up-to-date (vc) investor database.
Prospects: From Pre-Seed to IPO
Mastykina sees AI as gradually becoming the default infrastructure of fundraising at all stages. At early stages, it helps resource-limited founders; at later stages, it scales processes for growth and pre-IPO rounds.
"I am sure that in the next five years, AI will become a personal assistant in fundraising. At some point, the founder's AI will communicate directly with the fund's AI, and investment decisions will be made based on analysis of all available information," she predicts.
Planned projects include stage-based founder communities where business email automatically identifies who in the network can provide introductions to investors, and expanding analytics into new regions.
Fundraising is moving away from being a process dependent solely on personal connections and manual investor search. Automation and AI are forming the new infrastructure of venture capital. For startups, this means faster access to capital; for investors, better decision-making quality. Transparency, speed, and scalability are becoming not just advantages, but the standards of a new era.
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