SÃO PAULO – Brazilian AI startup fund Shiva Capital, fresh off a $10 million raise, has unveiled a revolutionary new investment strategy: delegating all due diligence, portfolio management, and founder relations to a single, unpaid intern named Kevin. The fund, which champions "tiny teams" and lean operations, asserts that its proprietary AI is so advanced it can perform the work of dozens of highly paid venture capitalists, leaving Kevin free to handle the 'human touch' aspects.

“Why pay a partner $500,000 a year when our algorithm can identify market opportunities, assess founder potential, and predict exit strategies with 99.8% accuracy?” stated Lucas Marques, Shiva Capital’s founder, in a press release. “Kevin’s role is primarily to ensure the coffee machine is operational and occasionally forward an email. It’s peak efficiency.”

Industry observers are cautiously optimistic. “This could be a paradigm shift,” noted Dr. Evelyn Reed, a professor of Digital Economics at the University of Geneva. “Or it could be a highly elaborate scheme to get free labor while pretending to be innovative. Either way, it’s certainly… something.” Kevin, reached via a cryptic Slack message, responded with a single emoji: 🫠.

Shiva Capital plans to scale this model globally, with future investments managed by an increasingly decentralized network of interns, all supervised by the same central AI and a single, perpetually confused HR representative.