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Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

62.2% of global venture capital (VC) investors said artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have the most disruption potential of emerging technologies, an increase from 29% 12 months prior. 30% of investors regularly use AI to assess investment opportunities.

63.1% of investors say they would not invest if there would be a negative environmental impact, according to the 8th survey PitchBook conducted in partnership with Web Summit, the world's largest technology conference.

The Web Summit has collaborated on and offers a look into investor sentiment towards emerging technologies, shifts in investment strategy, and increasing representation of women in VC.

Only 43.2% said they have increased the representation of women within their firm and portfolio companies, while the number of women in senior management positions has also decreased from 75% to 66.7% over the last year.

Over half of investors surveyed (58.6%) reported 25% of their investments made in the last 18 months were to women-led startups. This is slightly lower than what was reported at Collision in June (66%), however, the number of investors reporting no investments in female founders has lowered to 26.1% presently compared to 33.3% five months ago.

Meanwhile, just 28.9% of investors say geopolitical events would affect their investment strategies, a significant decrease from last year's 79%.

Globally, venture capital investment activity has ......................

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