Rowghani joins a flurry of senior partners at established firms who have left to raise seed funds.

Perry Boyle is targeting $50M for his flagship fund, which aims to back Ukranian early-stage defense starutps.

Though Two Sigma Investments’s VC arm is separate from its hedge fund parent, problems at the latter have clouded the VC’s prospects.

Hedge fund manager Magnetar Capital is launching a $235 million venture fund aimed specifically at AI investing, its first-ever VC vehicle.

PitchBook’s annual ranking of the top fund families in venture capital places familiar firms like Union Square Ventures alongside lesser-known managers that have handily beaten the benchmark.

The vehicle dedicated to climate tech ventures already ranks among this year’s largest funds of its kind.

Upstart fund-of-funds investor LTV Capital is concentrating on venture firms that manage $100 million or less.

While 2024 has been a difficult year for VC fundraising, emerging managers are bearing the brunt of the pain as larger, more high-profile firms assert their dominance

The IPO drought explains why fund launches are drying up faster than a lake in Phoenix.

Freeflow Ventures’ $15 million opportunity fund is a smaller take on the opportunistic raises of the last venture cycle.

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.

Greg Strofman’s new firm, Veridical Ventures, is targeting $30 million to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage B2B software startups

The sprawling asset manager’s VC push involves putting its own spin on a16z’s “American Dynamism” playbook.

Industry observers have been predicting the rise of “zombie funds” since the market downturn in 2022

Jurvetson, a Silicon Valley heavyweight and close ally of Elon Musk, was an early investor in SpaceX and Tesla.

Two of the most prominent crypto funds are back on the fundraising market

General Catalyst’s new fund is reportedly close to closing on $6 billion, which would make it the biggest US VC fund close of 2024.

Former founders and wealthy individuals have better access to funds and are making up a bigger share of new VC fund raises, GPs say.