Venture Daily

Featured Guests: Allison Byers , founder & CEO, Scroobious | Paul Le Floch , co-founder & CEO, Axoft | Amy Wu , partner, Menlo Ventures The techno-optimist movement is building momentum (and political influence), Elon Musk announces that Neuralink has performed its first successful human surgery, and venture capitalists are sitting on over $300 billion dollars of dry powder. Read our newsl...

Featured Guests: Sam Smith-Eppsteiner , partner, Innovation Endeavors | Will Robbins , general partner, Contrary The FTC has antitrust concerns about Big Tech again, this time due to their partnerships with AI startups, Innovation Endeavors Raises a whopping $630 million dollar fund, and TechCrunch joins the growing list of news companies laying off employees. Read our newsletter : https://venture...

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem , founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital | Doug Clinton , co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management. New Hampshire residents receive a deepfaked phone call impersonating president Biden right before the primary vote Tuesday, Silicon Valley darling Brex cuts 20% of its staff, and wi...

Featured Guests: Larsen Jensen , founder & general partner, Harpoon Ventures | Andy Harrison , CEO & general partner, Section 32 | Kenny Tomlin , co-founder, Court Avenue Harpoon Ventures , a firm led by a former Olympian and Navy Seal, raises $125 million, the SEC is skeptical of the use and supervision of AI by investment advisers, and an expert marketer joins the show to predict trends...

Featured Guests: Oliver Libby , co-founder & managing partner, H/L Ventures | Doug Clinton , co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Vardan Gattani , principal, 645 Ventures | Gené Teare , senior data editor, Crunchbase News Elon Musk’s newest company xAI is looking to raise $1 billion dollars, Meta and IBM launch an AI Alliance promoting the use of open-source AI model...

Featured Guests: Michael Cortez , partner, YL Ventures | Chase Roberts , principal, Vertex Ventures Half of all 23andMe accounts, nearly 7 million, were affected by a hack back in October, venture investments are growing rapidly in middle America, and Boston venture firm OpenView may be shutting down as reports of large layoffs spread. Read our newsletter : https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscr...

Featured Guests: Shalin Mehta , general partner, SEVA | Kevin Hickey , VP of Architecture, Benefitfocus, a Voya Company Spotify announces another round of mass layoffs, this time resulting in 1500 job cuts, SEVA, a firm with a unique investment strategy, convincingly exceeds its fundraising goal, and Congress continues considering AI regulation as the tech expands in hospitals. Read our newsletter...

Featured Guest: Jill Chase, partner, CapitalG A deeper dive into the story of AI and how it is revolutionizing tech and the venture landscape, and how growth stage is investing into artificial intelligence. Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Rob Biederman , managing partner, Asymmetric Capital | Zach Ullman , principal, Lead Edge Capital The Sam Altman vs. OpenAI saga may finally be over as the former CEO is likely to take his position back this week, three VC firms just announced very large funds, and while the returns for private equity secondaries have been alright, they've been abysmal for VC. Read our newslet...

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem , founding & managing partner, Latitude Capital OpenAI , the creator of ChatGPT, made headlines everywhere over the weekend when it decided to fire its CEO, Sam Altman. Today, we break down the timeline of events that began on Friday. We’re joined by venture capitalists Bradley Tusk and Ansaf Kareem for val...

Featured Guests: Tony Wang , managing partner, 500 Global | Isabelle Freidheim , founder & managing partner, Athena Nvidia , the world’s leading chip maker, has just released its fastest ever offering, online fast fashion retailer Shein may be eyeing a public market listing, and president Biden and president Xi Jinping just had their first productive meeting in over a year. Read our newsletter...

Featured Guests: Shahin Farshchi , general partner, Lux Capital | Somesh Dash , general partner, IVP | Ganesh Bell , managing director, Insight Partners Special 100th episode : One story featuring three guests. Yesterday over 40 VC firms including Lux Capital, IVP, and Insight Partners signed a pledge to establish responsible AI protocol for their portfolio companies. VCs from those firms join the...

Featured Guest: Marcos Fernandez , managing partner, Fiat Ventures and partner, Fiat Growth California’s new VC diversity law may apply broadly to more than just venture firms, and in more than just California, Nepal joins India and Pakistan in banning Tik Tok, and Venture Daily is now creating short-form video news content. Read our newsletter : https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow...

Featured Guests: Cameron Peake , partner, Restive Ventures | Alex Mason , partner, FTV Capital 2023’s economy has been surprisingly resilient–will the trend continue in 2024? Telehealth physicians are spending more time logging records than they are with patients, and a new AI wearable says it plans to rival the iPhone. Read our newsletter : https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Jon Keidan , founder & managing partner, Torch Capital | Mark Tomasovic , principal, Energize Capital Once valued at $47 billion dollars, We Work has now filed for bankruptcy, Pitchbook’s Q3 VC valuation report isn’t ideal, but there are some silver linings, and Meta sets forth new rules for the use of AI in political adverts on its platforms. Read our newsletter : https://ven...

Featured Guests: Brian O’Malley , managing partner, Forerunner Ventures | Jake Heller , co-founder & CEO, Casetext Amazon is offering all Prime customers a healthcare membership for $9 a month, the scariest thing about AI is its ability to create fake content that is indistinguishable from real content, and the US’s top consumer finance regulator sets its sights on Big Tech oversight. Read our...

Featured Guests: Ben Stokes , founding partner, Chasing Rainbows | Oliver Libby , managing partner, H/L Ventures The group that sued Fearless Fund for racial discrimination is now appealing the court’s September ruling, climate representatives from the US and China meet to discuss limiting carbon emissions, and IBM has pledged to invest $500 million into AI startups. Read our newsletter : https://...

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Bob Rosin , partner, defy.vc Elon Musk , Kamala Harris, and many other world and business leaders met in England for a groundbreaking AI summit, buy now, pay later startup Klarna appears to be angling for an IPO, and OpenAI releases a new product that could change everything. Read our newsletter : https://venture-daily.beeh...

Featured Guests: Richard Dulude , co-founder & general partner, Underscore VC | Ian Rogers , chief experience officer, Ledger Venture capitalist Richard Dulude shares where he thinks Biden’s new AI executive order goes wrong, will crypto be able to rebuild its brand now that SBF’s trial is over?, and Ivy league endowments are experiencing their worst year of returns this decade. Subscribe to o...

Featured Guests: Zoe Weinberg , founder & managing partner, ex/ante | Abigail Risse , analyst, Hyperplane VC Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial ends in a guilty verdict in all seven counts of fraud, Ex/Ante, a firm with a unique thesis raises a fund backed by Marc Andreessen & Union Square Ventures, and Walgreens can’t catch a break this year as its employees stage a nationwide walk out. Read our n...

Featured Guests: Michael Marks , founder & general partner, Celesta Capital | Brad Bernstein , managing partner, FTV Capital | Philippe Botteri , partner, Accel Generative AI companies are struggling to find the best pricing model for their expensive generative products, private equity deals are way down, but there’s a silver lining in take private deal value, and Accel releases its Euroscape...

Featured Guest: Sarah Hinkfuss , partner, Bain Capital Ventures President Biden issues the first ever US federal government guidelines for AI through an executive order, Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the witness stand in the company’s antitrust case, and companies are already following SEC cyber attack disclosure rules months in advance. Read our newsletter : https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/sub...

Featured Guests: Isabelle Freidheim , founder & chair, Athena Technology | Rudina Seseri , founder & managing partner, Glasswing Ventures IPOs in the second half of 2023 have failed to inspire a public market resurgence many hoped they would, the UN creates an AI advisory body of members representing countries around the globe, and Google paid over $26 billion to be the default search engi...

Featured Guests: Dr. Hon Weng Chong , founder & CEO, Cortical Labs | TJ Nahigian , co-founder & managing partner, Base10 Partners | Brian Devaney , principal, Underscore VC Boston has proven to be the most resilient major venture city amid poor market conditions, the UK’s Prime Minister says he is in no rush to regulate AI, and Google and Microsoft are under increasing scrutiny to turn pro...

Featured Guests: Will Coleman , co-founder & CEO, Alto | Dr. Tom Kelly , co-founder & CEO, Heidi Health Cruise robotaxis have been suspended in California because of danger to pedestrians, the verbal harassment of healthcare workers has doubled since 2018, and Sam Bankman-Fried intends to take the witness stand, potentially as early as today. Check out our newsletter : https://venture-dail...