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  Venture Funds

  Charts: Why the fund math for Series A venture firms keeps getting trickier

  February 19, 2026

  Elite, boutique VC firms like Benchmark have done quite well, but their market’s math isn’t what it used to be.

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  Venture Funds

  Thrive raises $10B as its LPs anticipate mega-IPO windfall

  February 17, 2026

  Thrive’s bets on SpaceX and OpenAI are expected to deliver huge returns to its LPs in upcoming IPOs.

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  Venture Funds

  With sparse LP capital to go around, VCs lean more on their anchors

  December 4, 2025

  The share of capital awarded by VCs’ anchor investors has risen nearly five percentage points in the last few vintages, according to new Carta data.

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  Cryptocurrency/Blockchain

  Pantera’s recent token bets are the real portfolio winners

  November 6, 2025

  The firm is targeting a $1 billion Fund V, betting that its mix of venture equity, private tokens and event-driven plays will keep outperforming classic VC strategies

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  VC

  HighVista’s $270M fund-of-funds is latest glimmer of optimism for VC emerging managers

  October 21, 2025

  The Boston firm’s new fund underscores renewed LP interest in smaller VC managers after years of mega-fund dominance.

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  Venture Ecosystem

  Goldman Sachs to acquire Industry Ventures and its $7B portfolio

  October 13, 2025

  The 25-year-old San Francisco VC firm made its name in VC secondaries and fund investments.

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  VC

  Threshold Ventures alumnus preps debut VC fund

  August 28, 2025

  Chirag Chotalia is joining a growing number of VCs leaving their big firms to go at it on their own.

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  Venture Funds

  Two former Thiel Capital execs are shooting for $50M for their own VC fund

  August 1, 2025

  It’s the latest in a long list of recent VC spinouts.

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  Venture Funds

  Don’t call it a comeback: VC-backed IPOs are stabilizing, not soaring

  July 15, 2025

  Top US IPO candidates are continuing cautiously monitoring the market from the sidelines.

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  Venture Capital

  Veterans backing veterans: VC targets $50M for new fund as defense tech takes off

  July 4, 2025

  The Veteran Fund’s sophomore vehicle comes amid an influx of VC dollars into startups linked to US defense and national security priorities.

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  Venture Capital

  Wisdom Ventures is raising a second fund to invest in wellness

  June 25, 2025

  Can tech startups combat tech problems?

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  Venture Funds

  Felicis nabs $900M, predicts ‘dozens’ of $100B+ AI startups in this decade

  June 12, 2025

  Felicis has raised its largest fund to date, with a 70%+ strategic concentration in AI

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  Angel investors

  Denver angel syndicate raises $20M for its first VC fund

  June 4, 2025

  Denver Ventures leaned on its angel investors to raise capital during a tough time for emerging managers.

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  Canada

  Brookfield put VC funds ‘out to pasture’ after real estate losses, lawsuit claims

  May 9, 2025

  Josh Raffaelli, former head of venture growth investing at Brookfield, is suing the firm for wrongful termination.

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  AI

  With Softbank’s billions on the line, OpenAI scuttles full for-profit transition

  May 5, 2025

  The SoftBank-led record $40 billion funding round was contingent on a shift in corporate structure

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  Benchmarking

  Want to raise a new VC fund? That 10-year IRR better be in the double digits

  April 15, 2025

  GPs with poor returns have struggled to raise new vehicles in the last few years.

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  AI

  SignalFire raises $1B+ as AI wave keeps booming

  April 7, 2025

  The new capital brings the AI-assisted venture capital firm’s AUM to about $3 billion.

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  VC

  Network effects: Well-connected VCs see lower failure rates, better returns

  March 19, 2025

  Well-connected investors saw failure rate at least ten percentage points lower than their less-plugged-in peers.

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