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  VC Fundraising

  Robinhood backer Slow Ventures lowers sights in latest fund launch

  December 18, 2024

  SEC filings indicate that tech-focused Slow Ventures is raising fresh capital.

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  Supply Chain Tech

  Ousted Flexport CEO raises $100M for new AI logistics startup

  October 8, 2024

  Dave Clark, who joined Flexport from Amazon in 2022, was pressured to resign from the supply chain company less than two years later

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  Weekend Analysis

  AI founder FOMO pushes seed VCs to the sidelines

  August 16, 2024

  Many seed VCs are getting priced out from early-stage deals with the buzziest AI founders, as valuations reach a fever pitch

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  Exclusive

  NEA leads round for ex-Google AI exec Anna Patterson’s stealth startup

  August 14, 2024

  Patterson left her position as managing partner at Gradient Ventures in late 2023 to launch Ceramic.

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  Exclusive

  Ex-Thrive Capital partner Ahuja in talks to raise $30M seed fund

  July 24, 2024

  Gaurav Ahuja, who led Thrive’s early investments in Parafin, Dutchie, Stytch and others, is targeting between $30 million and $40 million for his debut fund.

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  AI

  Rackhouse VC’s $45M Fund II underscores room to run for early-stage AI

  June 25, 2024

  Rackhouse VC is avoiding big name large language model creators in favor of pick-and-shovel AI operators

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  Weekend Analysis

  Seed investors hitched their wagon to blue-chip VC firms. Now they’re hightailing it

  June 21, 2024

  Venture has a reputation as investing’s swashbuckling, rebellious and risk-taking youngest child. But as blue-chip as assets under management have ballooned, venture firms have become more institutional and bureaucratic.

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  AI

  Generative AI seed funding drops 76% as investors take wait-and-see approach

  May 30, 2024

  Investment at the earliest stages in generative AI is slowing as investors begin to rethink their strategy, PitchBook data shows.

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  Startups

  3 charts: The US has more startups than VCs can support

  April 15, 2024

  There are still over 55,000 solvent VC-backed companies in the US, many of which are aggressively competing for funding.

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  Venture Debt

  Early-stage startups seeking venture debt find investor prestige isn’t enough

  March 13, 2024

  Securing venture debt is a challenge even for founders with name-brand backers as lenders get more aggressive on due diligence.

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  VC Valuations

  Valuation growth stalls for late-stage startups

  February 12, 2024

  The median relative velocity of value creation fell to 14.5% for late-stage startups in 2023, the lowest annual rate since 2016.

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  Seed

  M&A of seed-stage startups outshines mature companies

  February 2, 2024

  2023 was a dismal year for VC-backed M&A, but it wasn’t as bad for seed-stage startups.

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  VC Fundraising

  Transcend closes $60M fund as mainstream, niche VCs jostle for video game deals

  November 13, 2023

  Gaming VC firm Transcend has raised a nearly $60 million fund as blockbuster acquisitions and huge rounds for video games startups point to how the industry has evolved.

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  VC Valuations

  4 charts: Stagnant VC valuations fail to spur discount investment spree

  November 12, 2023

  More than a year and a half into the VC industry downturn, there are signs that valuations have hit bottom. But VCs have yet to ramp up bargain hunting.

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  Seed

  David Sacks launches startup for metric-conscious SaaS era

  September 5, 2023

  Craft Ventures co-founder David Sacks has a new startup—one that emerged from the firm’s own due diligence process.

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  VC Valuations

  Series A price correction halts seed-valuation ascent

  August 14, 2023

  After climbing for nearly every quarter since mid-2020, the median pre-money valuation of seed-stage deals dropped 17% in Q2 20230.

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  Top Investor

  SFC Capital emerges as most active VC in H1 European deals

  July 2, 2023

  SFC Capital has participated in the most European venture rounds so far this year, while dealmaking on the whole remains subdued.

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  VC Fundraising

  Datadog-backer RTP Global raises $1B fund by reinvesting its own wins

  June 27, 2023

  The firm’s fourth venture vehicle is more than 50% larger than its previous fund.

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