For founders, the result is whiplash. They pitch VCs that Pitchbook says are in their sector, only to learn that their ...

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When every fund claims the same great networks and strong relationships, nobody wins. Bauer, Co-Founder of TBV, offers a more ...

Marc Andreessen — One Kind of VC. (Photo By Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) About 20 VCs are said to earn about 95% of VC profits. Pick the right one and your odds of success ...

VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the hottest ones — especially AI companies. But they are also increasingly doing so ...

Sustainability tech has been all the buzz in the last few years. Investors are hunting promising ESG businesses, governments are pushing ambitious legislation, and companies are getting on board to ...

You might think that some traction would make getting funded easier than no traction. You’d be wrong. I have spent the better part of a decade helping thousands of first-time founders raise their ...

Anthropic has received multiple offers to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion in recent weeks, which would more than ...

Venture firms are increasingly investing in competing LLM startups like OpenAI and xAI. Traditionally, VCs avoided backing competitors like Uber and Lyft. Some VCs argue investing in multiple LLMs is ...

Vertical quick commerce is emerging as one of the clearest signals that venture capital is rethinking the fundamentals of ...