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Allie Garfinkle

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NVP’s Vaughn Crowe on how manufacturing and industrials hit their venture moment

Why manufacturing is finally having its venture moment, according to Vaugh Crowe, cofounder of VC firm NVP Capital.

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The Boston Dynamics spinout building robots you’ll actually want to hug

Dynamic Creatures, the startup former Boston Dynamics executive Marc Theermann just cofounded with noted AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is out of...

08.09.2026 5

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John Ternus takes the helm at Apple, as AI pressure hits

After 15 years as CEO, Tim Cook this week stepped aside, replaced with longtime executive John Ternus.

04.09.2026 20

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To get into Anthropic right now, you need at least $25 million. For OpenAI, it’s closer to $1 million.

In the secondaries market, there’s far more demand for shares of Anthropic than OpenAI.

03.09.2026 7

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David Tisch has always been a collector. His firm’s biggest prize is a $1 billion return on Cursor

How BoxGroup and David Tisch hit it big with a once-unlikely bet.

27.08.2026 10

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How David Tisch’s BoxGroup turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules

David Tisch started off thinking he’d do just one startup deal. Years later, his firm BoxGroup is at the center of VC’s biggest acquisition ever.

26.08.2026 10

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OpenAI’s new revenue chief has a simple mission: make the money match the hype

Rajic, 53, has earned a reputation as one of the most disciplined, successful enterprise sales leaders in tech.

26.08.2026 10

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Private equity’s $860 billion zombie company problem

The zero-interest-rate era left private equity with thousands of companies it can't exit, can't sell, and can't quite kill.

25.08.2026 10

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Portfolio review takes on a new urgency for VCs as AI makes 2024’s great deals look like 2026’s clear mistakes

In venture capital, the half-life of a thesis has never been shorter.

20.08.2026 10

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AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal

The SEC accuses a Long Island firm of running a $74 million boiler room that sold retirees marked-up shares in Anduril, Anthropic, Perplexity, and...

18.08.2026 30

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Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning

Wispr has raised $280 million in its Menlo Ventures-led Series B, as it looks beyond dictation.

17.08.2026 10

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87.5% of venture dollars went to AI. The rest fought over scraps

PitchBook's Q2 valuations data shows a market split in two.

12.08.2026 20

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In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion

The $545 million Series G nearly doubles Whatnot's valuation—a rare consumer-marketplace breakout at a moment when nearly every venture dollar is...

07.08.2026 10

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Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups

Bridgit Mendler—a Harvard and MIT grad who cofounded Northwood in 2022—draws attention for her childhood as a Disney Channel star. But she’s...

06.08.2026 40

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To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining

Mariana Minerals is now valued at $1.5 billion.

03.08.2026 30

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Sports teams have gone from trophies to trillion-dollar investment targets

Since 2014, overall total returns for the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB have outperformed the S&P 500.

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FIFA’s plan to raise billions from investors is sparking a backlash—one insider says Europe is angry because it could change soccer’s balance of power

Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner and former Liberty Media boss Greg Maffei are involved in the controversial bid to buy a stake in a subsidiary of the...

28.07.2026 10

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Greg Brockman on the week two OpenAI AI models went rogue

The OpenAI cofounder's read on a security scare, business models amid an approaching IPO, and the case for staying calm.

28.07.2026 40

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Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

Backed by Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Khosla Ventures, this startup is betting that healthcare's real AI opportunity isn't diagnosis—it's process.

16.07.2026 30

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Kevin Ryan’s AlleyCorp raises new $335 million fund, all in on early-stage bets

Ryan talks about his new $335 million fund, the AI "time warp" reshaping venture capital, and why it can help to change your mind.

15.07.2026 30

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Why is a satellite like a race car? Apex and Toyota’s racing division have an answer

Toyota Racing Development is building structural parts for Apex's satellites—an unlikely collaboration that could offer insights for reviving U.S....

14.07.2026 30

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In 2026 so far, U.S. VCs have deployed a record-shattering $412.7 billion. Almost none of it is trickling down.

In the first half of 2026, U.S. VCs deployed $412.7 billion, a record that surpasses the full year of 2025 by 30%, according to PitchBook’s new...

10.07.2026 30

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The 38-point framework two VCs use to spot the next unicorn founder

18 unicorns in, this VC couple says the secret is finding 'monsters,' not resumes.

08.07.2026 60

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Defense tech could be entering its awkward teenage years. Is the boom a bubble?

VCs are flooding into defense tech, but they could be unprepared for the sector’s brutal economics and lengthy timelines.

02.07.2026 20

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The defense tech boom has become a bubble—or it will be soon

Defense tech was once considered, at best, a fringe area for traditional VCs. Now, there could be a bubble.

02.07.2026 40

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The VCs betting founders need a village, not a blank check

Raj and Sunny Singh Sandhu closed Vicus Ventures’s debut fund at $55 million, turning down ‘way more’ capital to stay focused.

30.06.2026 30

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Lux Capital cofounder Josh Wolfe’s limited-odds, high-stakes 2027 predictions

Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital cofounder, is known for backing companies like Anduril, Applied Intuition, Hugging Face, Impulse Space, Osmo, and Physical...

25.06.2026 40

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As mega-funds grab 72% of all capital raised, the gap between VC’s haves and have-nots keeps widening

PitchBook's midyear data shows an increasingly skewed VC ecosystem.

24.06.2026 40

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Whatnot is worth $11.5 billion—and its sellers just hit one billion orders

Whatnot—which in October raised a $225 million Series F, with an $11.5 billion valuation—has been in the midst of a serious growth spurt.

18.06.2026 20

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PayPal mafia member and ex–Sequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board—reuniting with Elon Musk after decades

Roelof Botha, who spent more than two decades at VC firm Sequoia Capital, first worked with Elon Musk at PayPal.

17.06.2026 20

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OpenAI’s balance sheet remains the most mysterious—and consequential—in business

A combination of blogger Ed Zitron and the Financial Times reported that OpenAI’s 2025 financials look, well, pretty rough.

17.06.2026 40

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The SpaceX IPO marks a lopsided win for venture

SpaceX shares closed on its first day of trading up 19%, sending the company's valuation above $2 trillion in a genuinely historic IPO. What happens...

15.06.2026 40

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Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Valor, and the biggest VC winners from SpaceX’s IPO

SpaceX’s IPO will crown a few select VC winners. But it’s only the beginning of Hot IPO Summer.

12.06.2026 40

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As SpaceX goes public, a $100 billion shadow market faces a reckoning

SpaceX’s public debut could kick off months (or even years) of reckoning in the venture secondaries market, the pre-IPO Wild West.

11.06.2026 30

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Anthropic’s confidential S-1 signals summer AI IPO race could heat up fast

Anthropic, the $965 billion AI juggernaut, announced its confidential S-1 filing on Monday.

02.06.2026 30

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Anthropic confidentially files its S-1 first—but the IPO race with OpenAI is just beginning

As two AI giants hurtle towards IPOs, Anthropic is showing early momentum.

01.06.2026 30

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The key disclosures missing from SpaceX’s S-1

PitchBook points out SpaceX’s S-1 doesn’t get as granular as you might hope on some key metrics.

28.05.2026 50

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Demis Hassabis on his rush to ‘solve all disease’ and Isomorphic’s new $2.1 billion

Demis Hassabis talks to Fortune about how a $2.1 billion Series B will ‘turbocharge’ Isomorphic.

27.05.2026 60

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‘A pressure cooker ready to explode’: The wild secondaries scramble for Anthropic shares

The secondaries market for the biggest private tech companies has gotten scorching hot, and is potentially ripe for fraud.

22.05.2026 30

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Inside the fraud-ripe feeding frenzy to snag Anthropic shares while the company remains private

The demand for Anthropic shares has proven explosive, and it’s led to some pretty wild behavior in the secondaries market.

22.05.2026 40

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SpaceX’s IPO filing is full of surprises

SpaceX’s long-awaited IPO prospectus was revealing. Here are some key takeaways.

21.05.2026 50

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SpaceX finally files IPO prospectus, reveals revenue is up–but losses are too

In a S-1 filing replete with glossy photos of rockets and space, SpaceX gave investors the first peek at its business financials and plans for a...

20.05.2026 30

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Cerebras soars almost 70% by market close in a true blockbuster IPO

Cerebras’s first day stock pop reflected clip-mania: shares rocketed 70% by market close.

15.05.2026 30

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What drones and drug discovery have in common

What do weapons and drug discovery have in common? Over the last 24 hours, billions of dollars and a lead investor.

13.05.2026 60

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Exclusive: Roadrunner raises $27 million from Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund

A Kleiner partner vibe-coded his way to a startup incubated inside his firm.

12.05.2026 40

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Brian Schimpf has been quietly running Anduril since its earliest days. And once he’s talking, he has a lot to say

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf on the war in Iran, the future of autonomous weapons, and where the $30.5 billion company goes from here.

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Exclusive: Gusto crosses $1 billion in 12-month trailing revenue

The HR software company, valued at $9.3 billion, was founded in 2011. Here’s how they went from zero to a billion.

07.05.2026 50

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Gusto’s path to $1 billion in revenue, milestone-by-milestone

Gusto’s founders exclusively tell Fortune how they reached $1 billion in revenue, and how they see the future of small business amid AI tumult.

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District, founded by three Snapchat alumni, raises a $14.7 million seed round to help independent sellers build community-driven marketplaces

The a16z-backed AI startup wants to bring the corner store experience to online shopping.

06.05.2026 30

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District, founded by three Snapchat alumni, raises a $14.7 million seed round to help independent sellers build community-driven marketplaces

The a16z-backed AI startup wants to bring the corner store experience to online shopping.

06.05.2026 40

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