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Featured Guests: Lily Lyman , general partner, Underscore VC | Rob Biederman , managing partner, Asymmetric Capital | Doug Clinton , co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management Check out our newsletter : https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe Copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies could spell disaster for venture capital investments, Anthropic surveys the publi...

Featured Guests: Jeff Wong , global chief innovation officer, Ernst & Young | Jen Neundorfer , co-founder & managing partner, January Ventures NEWSLETTER: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe The Venture Daily team has joined the Antler founder residency program to begin building a company dedicated to better storytelling in VC and tech, AI experts emphasize the need for US regulati...

Featured Guest: Ansaf Kareem , founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital A conversation with veteran venture capitalist Ansaf Kareem. We cover the 0 to 1 journey, the common mistakes he sees founders make when pitching investors, and the best wisdom VCs can impart to help founders succeed.

Featured Guests: Jordan Nof , co-founder & managing partner, Tusk Venture Partners | Patrick Driscoll , general partner, Chasing Rainbows The war in Israel has investors concerned about the impact it will have on the global economy, VC’s in New York have formed an alliance to promote diversity in startups, and Sequoia’s Chinese ties are under more scrutiny from the US government.

Featured Guests: Pete Flint , general partner, NFX | Antonio Avitabile , managing director, Sony Innovation Fund: Africa Marc Andreessen makes the case against regulating technological progress in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” Sony establishes its newest Innovation Fund in Africa, and Tucker Carlson’s new media company is backed by an ‘anti-woke’ venture firm.

Featured Guests: Tony Kulesa , principal, Pillar VC | Francesco Benedetti , CEO & co-founder, Osmoses October has already seen five huge M&A deals in biotech, president Biden announces a $7 billion dollar pledge to build ‘hydrogen hubs’ across the US, and LinkedIn initiates another large round of global layoffs.

Featured Guest: Niki Pezeshki , general partner, Felicis Ventures The $69 billion deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard has finally been approved, 15% of the Israeli tech workforce are being deployed to war, and the CEO of OnlyFans says the company does not plan to IPO.

Featured Guests: Grace Isford , partner, Lux Capital | Michael Daniel , president & CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance New York City is making its case to be regarded as the world capital of AI, Tik Tok seeks to block Montana’s ban of the app, and HongShan, Sequoia’s former Chinese arm, may be seeking to expand the firm to global markets.

Featured Guests: Jeff Grabow , US venture capital leader, Ernst & Young | Chris Metinko , senior reporter, Crunchbase News Tech companies creating generative AI tools are trying to turn hype into profits, venture funding in Asia has reached equilibrium in Q3, and Birkenstock sees the worst IPO debut by a unicorn in nearly two years.

Featured Guests: Steve Kraus , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | Sofia Guerra , vice president, Bessemer Venture Partners | Kerry Sette , vice president & head of consumer insights and research, Voya Financial | Noah Shipman , partner, Vistara Growth Bessemer releases its first annual health tech report revealing funding in the sector is down 65%, how the discussion about mental health in t...

Featured Guests: Allison Byers , founder & CEO, Scroobious, and co-chair, All Raise Boston chapter | Priya Saiprasad , co-founder & general partner, Touring Capital | Kfir Kachlon , managing partner at 91 Ventures Governor Newsom passes the first diversity disclosure bill of its kind for VC firms in California, venture is supporting Israel with financial aid, and food consumption is down d...

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Joe Merrill , co-founder & partner, Sputnik ATX | Nick Lockett , co-founder & CTO, Pear Suite After a surprise attack from terrorist group Hamas, Israel has declared war, new constitutions are being formed by AI companies to enhance guardrails for the tech, and a hacker has compromised user data from genetic testing...

Featured Guests: Ben Stokes , founding partner, Chasing Rainbows | Jason Chapman , founder & managing partner, Konvoy | Daniel Khabie , founding partner, Court Avenue 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have walked out in the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history, a look into the new human jobs that AI will create, and the results of a KPMG survey of U.S. CEOs and their outlooks on AI investm...

Featured Guests: Chris Gardner , general partner, Underscore VC | Carl Gish , co-founder & CEO, Aro Homes Pitchbook’s Q3 report reveals a 3-year low for deals, BloombergNEF releases the three climate challenges startups will face in the next decade, and Anthropic is rumored to be seeking $2 billion dollars more from investors like Google.

Featured Guests: Devin Kohli , general partner & co-founder, Outward VC | Johannes Weber , managing partner & founder, Ananda Impact Ventures Meta is planning to charge European Facebook and Instagram users a monthly subscription fee, the venture capital “spring” may finally be here, and European VC firm Atomico raises $1.1 billion.

Featured Guests: Madeline Darcy , founder & managing partner, Kaya Ventures | Michael Kearney , partner, The Engine Venture has a new big bank (and it’s the largest one in America), carbon removal startup Heirloom says it will not take any funding from Big Oil and Gas, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial begins today.

Featured Guests: Courtney Leimkuhler , founding partner at Springbank | Kevin Zhang , partner, Upfront Ventures California could pass a law requiring VC firms to disclose the race and gender of their founders, Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman conduct a hyperrealistic metaverse interview, and Fortnite’s parent company Epic Games lays off 870 employees, 16% of its staff.

Featured Guests: Ben Lerer , managing partner, Lerer Hippeau | Rob Biederman , managing partner, Asymmetric Capital Experts predict IPO success will be accomplished by demonstrating potential for value over potential for growth, more than half of U.S. states have enacted AI regulatory legislation, and X’s CEO says the platform plans to be profitable by early 2024.

Featured Guests: Anna Barber , partner, M13 | Howard Morgan , chair & general partner, B Capital Group | Ben Lamm , co-founder & CEO, Colossal Biosciences OpenAI is seeking a $90 billion dollar valuation through its sale of existing company shares, Birkenstock plans to begin its IPO roadshow next week, and a new report reveals that the use of fossil fuels could reach its peak this decade.

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Jen Neundorfer , co-founder & managing partner, January Ventures | Matt Kinsella , managing director, Maverick Ventures The US Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, controversial fundraising party rounds are seriously declining in popularity, and the United Arab Emirates could be primed...

Featured Guests: Meera Clark , principal, Redpoint Ventures | Doug Clinton , co-founder & partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Amy Nauiokas , co-founder & CEO, Anthemis Group | Sean Park , co-founder & CIO, Anthemis Group A look into Redpoint’s “Tea on Gen Z” report, Amazon announces it’ll be investing $4 billion dollars into AI startup Anthropic, and many on-demand startups that saw...

Featured Guests: Will Robbins , general partner, Contrary | Karthik Balakrishnan , president & co-founder, Actual Global regulation of AI is discussed at the UN General Assembly, but is overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, anti-‘ESG’ sentiment continues among LPs, and a 10% stake in the Golden State Warriors can be bought for $700 million dollars.

Featured Guests: Joe Merrill , co-founder & partner, Sputnik ATX | Alberto Yepez , managing partner, Forgepoint Capital | Jimmy Orsillo , general partner, Underscore VC GGV Capital splits ties with its China operations amid political pressure from Washington, Cisco agrees to acquire Splunk in 2023’s biggest tech deal so far, and Instacart and Arm have lost steam on the public market after prom...

Featured Guests: Mat Ellis , CEO, Sixty AI | Raghuram Madabushi , director, National Grid Partners Elon Musk says that every X user will soon be required to pay a fee to use the platform, Will Hurd, a Republican running for president, is the first candidate to offer an AI policy plan, and Goldman Sachs raises $15B to invest in other private equity funds.