Category: Ventures
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play | TechCrunch
Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and that...
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks | TechCrunch
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term...
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B | TechCrunch
AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion. This just five...
Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Deven Parekh has co-run the heavyweight investment firm Insight Partners for 26 years. Unlike many VCs who are...
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too | TechCrunch
When it comes to Chinese AI labs using distillation techniques to extract knowledge from frontier model makers, Y...
Thrive’s Kushner defends involvement in FIFA mess, hires Elon’s go-to lawyer | TechCrunch
New York’s prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital has been hauled into the center of a messy drama that...
Oura’s $2.2B IPO is mostly a payday for existing shareholders | TechCrunch
Smart ring maker Oura is looking to raise as much as $2.2 billion in its upcoming IPO, but...
Family offices are clamoring for AI investments | TechCrunch
For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is...
VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI | TechCrunch
Bessemer Venture Partners announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5.75 billion across two new funds to accelerate...
a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school | TechCrunch
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy aimed at aspiring founders...
