ABOUT

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Lensential is an AI-first research and build firm in Austin, Texas. We deliver checked research to venture funds, angel networks and private equity, and we build automation for finance teams. Our principals lead the firm, with a bench of financial analysts, engineers and subject experts from our network and partner firms.

Kevin Przybocki

Partner

Kevin Przybocki has built and run technology companies for almost forty years. He began at Bain & Company and then held operating roles at MIPS Computer Systems, Target Therapeutics, AllAdvantage.com and Finisar, where he was a general manager. In 2002 he and three partners founded Anue Systems in Austin. They raised no venture money and, in the first year, took no salaries. Kevin ran sales, business development and finance. Anue grew to 170 people making network emulators and the packet brokers that feed network monitoring tools, and Ixia bought it in 2012 for $145 million in cash. At Ixia he led sales for the network visibility group. His newest company, AI Nano Systems, builds agentic AI for semiconductor manufacturing. He is a venture partner at NextGen Venture Partners, invests with the Central Texas Angel Network, sits on the board of Aukua Systems and mentors founders at Capital Factory. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an S.B. and an S.M. in mechanical engineering from MIT, where he served on the Alumni Association's board of directors.

Stefan Brunner

Partner

Stefan Brunner was Principal Architect and Director of Product Management at NetScreen and Juniper, working on national networks and bank data centers. At Dell and SonicWall he ran a security product unit with about $400 million in P&L. He is a Venture Partner at BVV, a Swiss AI-first seed fund, invests with the Central Texas Angel Network and has reviewed more than a thousand pitch decks. He mentors founders at Texas Venture Connect (TEXVMS), the venture mentoring service for UT Austin and the other University of Texas System schools, and at the Founder Institute. He has used language models practically every day since GPT-2, is an O'Reilly author and a CISSP, and co-authored the JNCIE-SEC certification. He holds an MBA (Dipl.-Kfm.) from LMU Munich, a top 50 university worldwide. He wrote Lensential Venture from live diligence.

OUR ANALYSTS

Our financial analysts read your material, run our AI agents and present the report to your partners. Before anything reaches you, a principal reads it, challenges it and signs it. Everyone on your engagement is named to you before work starts. The agents check their own work against written quality bars, and every finding shows how to reproduce it, so you can test the evidence behind the signature.

HOW TO CHECK US

By our standard, every figure a company gives about itself is labeled REPORTED until checked.

REPORTED

Here is how to check us.

What we say	How to check it
Lensential Venture has produced hundreds of papers since mid-2026. Five investor groups are trialing it, and the principals use it on their own deals.	Our statement. We name no customer without that customer's consent.
Lensential Venture has 19 agents and a stage engine. Lensential Consult has 21 agents and an orchestrator. Lensential PE has 25 agents and a stage engine of eight stages.	Ask for the field guides, which describe every agent, or ask to see the agents' folders on a call.
Lensential Venture release 0.23.0 shipped on October 14, 2026.	Ask for the release notes, which record every change.
Lensential Scout has a preview.	Try it as a guest, or ask for full access. It is a demo.
Kevin Przybocki co-founded Anue Systems, which Ixia bought in 2012 for $145 million in cash.	Ixia's announcement of May 7, 2012, is filed with the SEC (Form 8-K, exhibit 99.1). Harvard Business School's alumni bulletin profiled Anue and its founders in 2006.
He holds an S.B. and an S.M. from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.	The MIT Alumni Association's 2021 announcement naming him a director lists his class years. The 2006 HBS bulletin profile lists him as MBA 1991.
Stefan Brunner is an O'Reilly author and a CISSP.	ScreenOS Cookbook (2008), which he co-wrote, is in O'Reilly's catalog. ISC2 verifies a CISSP by name and certificate number; ask us for the number.
He has reviewed more than a thousand pitch decks as an investor.	Our statement. His roles at BVV and the Central Texas Angel Network are on his LinkedIn profile.

THE BENCH

We work with a bench of forward-deployed engineers, financial analysts and subject experts from our network and partner firms, and it keeps growing. If you have built agentic systems, or can sit with a deal team, write to us.

THE NAME

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