Another ex-TechCruncher ventures to VC

Former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis is planning to launch a $20 million venture capital fund, per Axios; she will reportedly operate the fund alone for now but could add a team in the future. Tsotsis previously worked at TechCrunch for about five years before leaving in June 2015 to enroll in the MSx Program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. After completing the program last summer, she’s decided to follow in the footsteps of other past TechCrunch employees to take a more active role in the industry they once covered.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington started the TC-to-VC trend when he left the blog after its sale to AOL in 2010. Arrington and college friend Patrick Gallagher teamed up to launch CrunchFund in 2011, but the effort fizzled, and Arrington announced last April his intent to take a step back from full-time investing. Another ex-TC writer to move to venture is M.G. Siegler, a general partner at GV who led the firm’s investments in Medium, Slack and Stripe, among other companies.

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