[fhuszar]

Yes, startups try to game VCs already. But if the 'features' that your business needs to achieve for VC are 1) hard to achieve and 2) generally drive you towards success then what's the issue with that? We want more startups to succeed and VC investment is an important feedback mechanism that ought to drive more startups towards success or early discovery of failure.

I mean let's say startups try to game the VC game and they learn they need to demonstrate product market fit before seeking investment. Is this a bad thing? We'll try to be as transparent about our insights as possible so startups know what we think drives/indicates their success the best.

I think you are right in that final decision is certainly not going to be reduced to a supervised ML algorithm classifying investment opportunities. But I don't think this fundamentally has to do anything with antagonistic and non-antagonistic - you just need different types of methods