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Alex Konrad

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Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs: Inside The Partner Exodus Rippling Across Venture Capital

31.01.2025 10

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Alex Konrad

This AI Startup In Nepal Is Helping Figma And OpenAI Close Their Biggest Sales

29.01.2025 40

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Clay, A Secret Weapon For Anthropic And OpenAI, Boosts Valuation To $1.3 Billion

22.01.2025 3

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This YC Partner Just Raised $30 Million For An AI Startup Automating Paperwork For Biotech

13.01.2025 6

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Anthropic’s Pending $60 Billion Valuation Will Make All Seven Cofounders Billionaires

09.01.2025 30

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Midas List 2025: Submissions Open To Rank The World’s Top Venture Capitalists

Across boom-and-bust cycles for the venture capital industry, the Forbes Midas List has remained a constant, providing the definitive and...

07.01.2025 4

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This ‘Immigrant Kid’ Turned Early GitLab Investor Now Has A $160 Million Debut Venture Fund

Villi Iltchev raised $160 million for his debut seed fund, Category Ventures. Villi Iltchev After years working on the Autopilot driver assistance...

17.12.2024 5

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They Teamed Up On Databricks And Perplexity. Now They're Launching Their Own $150 Million Fund

Laude Ventures partners Pete Sonsini, Andy Krioukov and Andy Konwinski are hoping to find "10 more" $100 billion opportunities like Databricks and...

10.12.2024 3

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30 Under 30 Venture Capital 2025: Meet The Investors Funding A New Generation Of Startup Leaders

When film student turned graphic designer Molly Mielke decided to launch her venture capital firm Moth Fund in 2021, she raised some eyebrows. “I...

03.12.2024 3

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‘Patriotism, Ego, Access’: Why Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Attracting Young Coders And Tech CEOs Alike

Billionaire founders Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have excited some tech workers to apply for DOGE as a "reverse 'New Deal.'" As a two-time...

27.11.2024 3

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Former Partners From Index, Bessemer, A16z Raise $350 Million For New VC Firm Chemistry

Chemistry founders Mark Goldberg, Kristina Shen and Ethan Kurzweil were "anxious" to get going. "We feel the market is right for this," Kurzweil...

23.10.2024 10

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Stripe In Talks To Buy Crypto Startup Bridge For $1 Billion

Stripe cofounder John Collison has overseen the fintech giant's reentry to the crypto space. Months after cofounder John Collison declared "crypto...

17.10.2024 4

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Notion And Stripe Trust This Year-Old Startup To Make Sure Their AI Tools Work

Braintrust CEO Ankur Goyal says his team can make it easier for "anyone" to build software that makes use of AI. Three months after a tech company...

08.10.2024 4

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Mercor’s AI Interviewer Has Vetted 300,000 Job Candidates. Now It’s Valued At $250 Million.

Mercor founders Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody and Surya Midha are hoping to use AI to solve a "broken" hiring process for their peers. In August...

18.09.2024 5

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How Nichole Wischoff Won The Internet To Raise $50 Million For Her VC Firm

Nichole Wischoff has more than doubled her fund size with Wischoff Ventures' latest raise. When shopping startup Checkmate went viral in December...

04.09.2024 3

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