Mesa Capital Partners
What Breaks Next?
Enterprise AI is moving from pilots to production faster than the infrastructure, data, security, and operating models built to support it. Mesa is running an independent research program — interviews, surveys, and published findings — to find out where it breaks first, for whom, and what it costs.
Latest interviews
The Agent Is the New Perimeter →
Matan Bar-Efrat, Rein Security
Recorded at Disrupt: Rein Security’s Matan Bar-Efrat on securing AI agents from the inside, why one policy for every agent fails, and closing the loop from alert to fix.
The AI Bottleneck Nobody Talks About Starts With a Single Crystal →
Cameron Khorsandi, Bucket Labs
Everyone talks about GPUs and power. Cameron Khorsandi of Bucket Labs explains why the real bottleneck may be the crystal growth process that comes before every chip.
When AI Agents Outrun Their Guardrails →
Apostol Vassilev, NIST
NIST researcher Apostol Vassilev on why no guardrail removes all of the risk, who should own AI risk, and why “human in the loop” gets harder at the speed and scale of agents.
Our thesis
Enterprise access is the foundation.
What decides whether AI scales
Trusted buyer relationships, unmet needs, and the workflows where AI has to run.
We bring startup and Silicon Valley VC culture to enterprise research, so our clients can see what sits below the line and scale AI faster inside their organizations.
Enterprise access
Direct access to enterprise perspectives
Who we speak with
- CIOs and CTOs
- CISOs and security architects
- Chief AI and data officers
- Infrastructure and platform leaders
- Business and operational leaders
Relationships we can draw on
- Senior technology and operator networks
- Enterprise relationships
- What Breaks Next research contributors
- Relevant buyers to augment your pipeline
For Executives
CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data Officers, Chief AI Officers, and CISOs — help us find out what breaks next in your organization, and get the findings first.
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Submit Your StartupFor AI Companies & Investors
Market Validation Sprints, research briefings, buyer-requirements workshops, and diligence interviews grounded in real executive interviews — not vendor-funded surveys.
Work With Mesa
The five research agendas
CIO
Who owns the AI-enabled workflow?
View agenda →CTO
Can your architecture support agents in production?
View agenda →Chief Data Officer
Is your data fit for AI decisions?
View agenda →Chief AI Officer
What must be proven before AI can act?
View agenda →CISO
Who controls what an AI agent can do?
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