Bill Gates's €1bn Climate fund🔋, Paths to Product-Market Fit🎯, State of AI investing📊
Bill Gates's €1bn Climate fund🔋, Paths to Product-Market Fit🎯, State of AI investing📊
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Top Headlines 🚨
Bill Gates weighs in on new €1bn German fund to back capital-intensive climate tech 🔋 [sifted, Miriam Partington]
Pete Sonsini, Early Investor in Databricks, Gets Closer to Launching New VC Firm 💼 [WSJ, Yuliya Chernova]
Cazoo hits the end of the road in the latest SPAC wreckage 📉 [Pitchbook, Andrew Woodman]
beehiiv attracts $33M to make its newsletter publishing platform more sticky 📰 [TC, Ingrid Lunden]
SaaS startup Atlan’s valuation hits $750 mn after $105-mn round 🚀 [The ARC, Aditi Shrivastava]
Lamini Raises $25M For Enterprises To Develop Top LLMs In-House 🔧 [Sharon Zhou]
In-Depth Insights 🔍
How founders should think about selling equity to investors by round [Peter Walker]
What should VCs do with zombie companies? 🚧 [David Teten]
The Fastest Growing Category of Venture Investment in 2024 📈 [Tomasz Tunguz]
20 Lessons From 20 Different Paths to Product-Market Fit — Advice for Founders, From Founders 🎯 [First Round]
The AI Hardware Dilemma. Why new devices are flopping—
and how they might succeed 🛠️ [Evan Armstrong]
Does Investor Choice Actually Matter for Startup Success? 🤔 [Andre Retterath, Jerome Jaggi]
How much do VCs make? (2024 results) 💵 [Clay Norris]
Stars align for continuation funds to thrive 💰 [Arleen Jacobius]
Stop Looking for a Technical Cofounder 💻 [Nir Zicherman]
Interesting Reports 📊
Private Equity Inflection Point 🔄 [Goldman Sachs]
Unveiling the Unicorn Makers 🦄 [Rajeev Roy]
State of AI investing 📊 [Dealroom, edda, Yoram Wijngaarde]
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