Venture Daily

Featured Guest: Patrick Driscoll , General Partner, Chasing Rainbows A.I. Robots promise not to rebel against humans, the venture decline may not be coming to an end anytime soon, and notable San-Francisco VC firms are moving offices to a national park near Golden Gate, The Presidio.

Featured Guests: Tinia Pina , CEO & Founder, Re-Nuble | Mat Ellis , CEO & Founder, Sixty AI Women disproportionately impacted by Big Tech layoffs, ChatGPT experiences its first month of decline in user traffic, and Meta's Threads gets over 30 million downloads on day one.

Featured Guests: Rebecca Lynn , Co-Founder & General Partner, Canvas Ventures | Genè Teare , Senior Data Editor, Crunchbase News VC investments for women founders are still low a decade later, Crunchbase reports venture funding is down 49% in Q2 since last year, and U.S. District Judge issues a preliminary injunction on Biden’s administration blocking them from content moderation on social med...

Meta announces Threads, Twitter’s new rival, Google’s new privacy policy indicates company will scrape entire public internet to train their AI models, and Apple’s Vision Pro experiencing significant production issues leading to likely headset unit cuts.

Featured Guests: Anthony Pompliano , Entrepeneur and Investor | Colleen Konetzke , Principal, Ironspring Ventures SEC approval "likely" for spot Bitcoin ETF, U.S. manufacturing production lowest it's been since 2020, and Bridgewater CIO Greg Jensen says ChatGPT is “awful” at picking stocks.

Featured Guests: Michael Cortez , Partner, YL Ventures | Mark Gudiksen , Managing Partner, Piva Capital New data privacy laws enacted in Colorado & Connecticut, climate tech funding is down 40%, and Elon Musk announces controversial Twitter user limits.

Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino unveils Twitter 2.0. Inflection AI raises $1.3B, the second largest A.I. funding round this year. A Venture Daily roundup of this week’s top stories.

Will AI actually change the world, or is it all just hype? Pitchbook’s somewhat grim outlook report for 2023 venture markets. A proposed U.S. ban on semiconductor microchip exports to China.

AI regulation in the U.S. may be around the corner. An online feud between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that could become a pay-per-view Vegas fight night. Private credit expanding to Fortune 500s.

Databricks to acquire generative A.I. startup MosaicML in $1.3B deal, BlackRock’s Larry Fink says he's no longer using the "politicized" term ESG, and Stability A.I.’s third executive turnover in less than three months.

FDIC documents reveal firms such as Sequoia received billions in government bailouts. How the actions of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group affect our markets and investing in Europe. VC-backed startup IRL shuts down after CEO's misconduct probe reveals 95% of users were “automated or from bots.”