Stages of Board Deck Preparation📝, How to be helpful as a VC📚, Secondary Market VC Funds🔄
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In-Depth Insights 🔍
While funding to AI-related startups remains strong, with nearly $30 billion raised so far this year alone, there are indicators that some of the earliest-stage investors are getting some AI fatigue 😴 [Crunchbase]
Silicon Valley’s Lightspeed Ventures shifts focus to secondary markets. Move is a sign of how traditional investment models are under threat by a challenging VC environment 🔄 [Financial Times]
VC funding for AI visual media surges nearly 90%. While big tech giants like Apple and Alphabet are making content generation a cornerstone of their respective AI initiatives, startups are raising record sums to bring AI-generated visuals to enterprise clients 🎥 [Pitchbook]
Bill Gates said he’s prepared to plow billions of dollars into a next-generation nuclear power plant project in Wyoming to meet growing US electricity needs 💸 [BNN Bloomberg]
How to (actually) be helpful as a VC. A guide to delivering on your value-add as a Venture Capital investor 📚 [Signature Block]
How to set up your Weekly Metrics Review 📊 [
]3 Stages of Board Deck Preparation. The Long Road to Strategic Insight is Worth the Journey 📝 [
]Crypto startups have drawn in roughly $100 billion of venture funding since the industry’s inception, after a recent pick-up in investment that coincided with a rally in Bitcoin and other major tokens 🪙 [yahoo!finance]
What are the UK Conservative Party’s plans for startups? Sifted spools through all 76 pages of the Conservatives' manifesto 📜
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Interesting Reports 📊
Overview and key findings of the 2024 Digital News Report 📰 [University of Oxford, Nic Newman]
Food for Climate – Sustainable food & Agtech in Europe 2024 🍏 [Dealroom.es, Foodlabs]
Recently Launched Funds 💸
Amazon says that it will commit up to $230 million to startups building generative AI-powered applications.
StepStone Group Inc. (Nasdaq: STEP), a NYC-based private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions, advisory, and data services, raised $3.3 Billion for StepStone VC Secondaries Fund VI, L.P., the firm’s sixth secondaries fund focused on opportunities in the venture capital asset class.
Fujitsu Ventures, the Kawasaki, Japan-based corporate venture capital arm of Fujitsu (TSE:6702), announced that it has expanded its scope to start impact investing.
Paris-based VC Breega hits first close of $75M Africa fund to back pre-seed and seed startups
Hottest Deals 💥
Zepto has raised a massive $665 million in a new round of funding, more than doubling its valuation to $3.6 billion from $1.4 billion in less than a year, as the Mumbai-based startup doubles down on its efforts to capture the contested quick commerce market in India.
Enveda Biosciences, a Boulder, CO-based biotechnology company using AI to translate nature into new medicines, raised a new financing round of $55m to add to its $119m combined Series B and B1.
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot
Apex, a Los Angeles, CA-based spacecraft manufacturing company, raised $95m in Series B funding. he round was led by XYZ Venture Capital, and co-led by CRV.
HeyGen, a Los Angeles, CA-based AI video generation platform for businesses, raised $60M in Series A funding at a $500M post-money valuation.
GrayMatter Robotics, a Los Angeles, CA-based robotics company delivering autonomous robotic solutions, raised $45M in Series B funding.
Vecna Robotics, a Waltham, MA-based provider of flexible material handling automation solutions, raised $100M in Series C funding.
Semperis, a specialist in Active Directory security now worth more than $1B, raises $125M