Webinar
From Chatbots to Daily Life: The Consumer AI Shift
Charlotte Jenkins and Bozhena Kulchyckyj, Senior Associates at Alumni Ventures, led a fast-moving look at the four AI consumer trends reshaping daily life — agentic commerce, ambient home AI, hyper-personalized health, and AI-powered learning — and the markets each one is set to define by 2030.
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In this session, Charlotte and Bozhena walked through the four AI trends most actively rewriting how consumers shop, live, get well, and learn — and why each one represents a distinct, investable venture thesis. The conversation centered on the structural shift happening as AI moves from a tool you open to an infrastructure layer running quietly underneath everyday life — collapsing the path from intent to action across commerce, the home, health, and education.
Charlotte and Bozhena covered what’s actually driving each trend. Agentic commerce, where AI agents are beginning to shop, subscribe, and transact on behalf of consumers — a category projected to influence $20.6B in U.S. retail spending and reach $3–5T globally by 2030 as humans move out of the purchase loop. Ambient home AI, where intelligence woven into the physical environment is on track to a $127B market. Hyper-personalized longevity and health, where AI applied to biometric data is set to reach ~$150B. And AI as tutor and co-creator, projected at ~$110B as learning and creative tools become genuinely personalized. The team shared how Alumni Ventures is already investing across this consumer landscape — from social and connection, to wellness, consumer goods, digital economy, and modern mobility — and where they’re sharpening conviction next.
Whether you were an existing syndicate member sharpening your view of consumer AI, or an accredited investor exploring AV’s syndicates for the first time, this session gave you a current, investor-focused look at the trends most likely to define the next decade of consumer venture returns. Watch the recording to hear directly from the team sourcing and evaluating these deals every week.
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Key Takeaway
- HomeDiscover the four AI consumer trends — agentic commerce, ambient home AI, hyper-personalized health, and AI-powered learning — and the multi-hundred-billion-dollar markets each is opening
- HomeUnderstand how Alumni Ventures is investing across the consumer landscape, from social and wellness to digital economy and mobility — and where the team is sharpening conviction next
- HomeLearn how accredited investors can build cross-cutting exposure through Alumni Ventures' NextGen Consumer, AV General, AI First, and AI & Robotics syndicates — at no cost and with no commitment to explore
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About your presenters
Charlotte Jenkins is a Principal at Alumni Ventures, where she invests in early-stage companies across sectors, with a focus on AI and emerging technologies reshaping everyday life and work. Before joining Alumni Ventures, Charlotte helped build and scale startups spanning AI, consumer technology, and logistics, with operating experience from pre-seed through Series B. She brings an operator’s perspective to investing and is particularly drawn to the 0-to-1 stage, where creative problem-solving, rapid learning, and unconventional ideas can lay the foundation for transformative businesses.
Actively Works On:
- Green D Ventures
- Women’s Fund
- Next-Gen Consumer Syndicate
Investment Areas of FocusCharlotte focuses on AI and emerging technologies reshaping how people live, work, and interact with the world. Her investment interests span AI-native services, consumer technology, AI applications, and infrastructure, with a particular interest in products that move beyond enabling tasks to delivering outcomes. She approaches emerging technologies through a behavioral lens, exploring how new capabilities change what people expect from software, how they make decisions, and how businesses deliver value. She is particularly drawn to opportunities where technological shifts unlock entirely new products, services, and business models.
Bozhena Kulchyckyj is a Senior Associate at Alumni Ventures on the Seed Investment team, where she supports venture investments across all sectors, with a focus on consumer, e-commerce, and emerging infrastructure themes. Earlier in her career, Bozhena worked at General Catalyst, True Ventures, and Sorenson Ventures, spending time across early-stage investments. She previously co-chaired and served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Boston College’s Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, where she ran the university’s entrepreneurial ecosystem — managing the venture competition and student investment program, leading accelerator and founder programming, and bringing in operators and investors across the broader venture network.
In addition to venture and ecosystem building, Bozhena has led design, operations, and growth initiatives at several early-stage startups. She also spent a year working in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland, supporting humanitarian aid deployment and philanthropic fundraising efforts.
Bozhena holds a Bachelor of Science from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where she majored in Information Systems, Business Analytics, and Studio Art. She combines a passion for product and design with a deep interest in AI-driven technologies and the next generation of builders.