Venture Daily

Featured Guests: Chidozie Ugwumba , managing partner, Symbiosis Capital Management | Krish Ramadurai , partner, Harmonix Fund | Greg Dracon , partner, .406 Ventures Klaviyo’s IPO debuts today on the New York Stock Exchange, Google DeepMind announces a breakthrough AI model that can predict genetic mutations, and we take a deeper look into the emerging sector of AI security.

Featured Guests: Vidyuth Srinivasan , co-founder & CEO, Entrupy | Chuckie Reddy , partner, QED Investors Instacart’s IPO debuts today on the Nasdaq, Entrupy’s State of the Fake report reveals the magnitude of the global counterfeit problem, and big banks unite to create a mobile wallet to compete with Big Tech.

Featured Guest: Rex Salisbury , founder & general partner, Cambrian Ventures Databricks raises $500 million dollars in latest round, the major cyberattack on Vegas casinos is still not resolved a week later, and TikTok has been fined $368 million dollars for violating children’s data privacy.

Featured Guests: Mike Packer , partner, QED Investors | Chase Roberts , principal, Vertex Ventures | Jurgi Camblong , CEO & co-founder, SOPHiA Genetics Arm’s stock surges on its first day on the public market, tech leaders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates attend the A.I. Insight Forum, and will the healthcare industry struggle to adopt AI?

Featured Guests: Alex Lazarow , managing partner, Fluent Ventures | Beezer Clarkson , partner, Sapphire Partners LPs at the Culture Shifting Summit offer advice to GPs on what they are looking for from funds, the California State Teachers' Retirement System $1.4 billion in manager portfolios are now managed by Sapphire Partners, and Coca-Cola releases Y3000, a soda created by AI.

Featured Guests: James Currier, general partner, NFX Capital | Patrick Driscoll , general partner, Chasing Rainbows The biggest antitrust trial in over twenty years begins between Google and the DOJ, megaround raises in venture are down 80% since 2021, and Binance US CEO Brian Shroder leaves the firm amid large scale layoffs and an SEC lawsuit.

Featured Guests: Tim Draper , venture capitalist, founder & managing partner, Draper Associates | Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan , founder & CEO, Samooha Instacart and Klaviyo price IPOs at diminished valuations, Google pledges $20 million to create a fund for developing best practices for responsible A.I., and Andreesen Horowitz has been sued for discrimination by one of its former startup co-...

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Eyal Lifshitz , founder & CEO, Bluevine | Nick Lockett , CTO & co-founder, Pear Suite AI misinformation poses a huge threat to 2024 global elections, Goldman Sachs pledges $100 million dollars to small businesses across the U.S., and Apple was exploited by the world’s most powerful spyware weapon.

Featured Guests: Oliver Libby , co-founder & managing partner, H/L Ventures | Bryan Corbett , president & CEO, The Managed Funds Association Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has enabled a battery deal boom in the U.S., private equity sues the SEC over transparency rules and regulation overstepping, and China has banned iPhones in all government agency workplaces.

Featured Guests: Joe Merrill , co-founder & partner, Sputnik ATX | Jason Whiting , CFO, Mercury Financial Jared Kushner ’s private equity firm backed by Saudi Arabia has made the first ever Saudi investment into an Israeli company, encouraging GDP and job growth numbers reveal a stabilizing economy, and drama surrounding Y-Combinator’s Demo Day.

Featured Guests: Lily Lyman , general partner, Underscore VC | Scott Beechuk , partner, Norwest Venture Partners Sequoia has had a tumultuous year and their LPs are noticing, a survey of top computer science professors reveals a desire for a federal agency to regulate AI, and Arm prices its IPO between $47-$51.

Featured Guests: Jake Heller , co-founder & CEO, Casetext | John Buttrick , partner, Union Square Ventures Casetext CEO and co-founder Jake Heller and Union Square Ventures’s John Buttrick join Venture Daily for an exclusive interview about Casetext’s recent $650 million dollar acquisition by Thomson Reuters.

Featured Guests: Daniel Khabie , co-founder & partner, CourtAvenue | Kareem Dabbagh , co-founder & managing partner, VoLo Earth Ventures | Jimmy Orsillo , partner, Underscore VC Google DeepMind’s SynthID tool raises questions about whether companies should inform customers when using generative AI to create content, new air-conditioning technology amid history’s hottest global temperatures...

Featured Guests: Katie Perry , general manager of investor relations, Public.com | Chris Taylor , chief growth officer, Left Lane Capital | Anshu Prasad , co-founder and CEO, Leaf Logistics Public.com’s yearly report reveals retail investor participation has hit an all time high, venture platform teams face job cuts, and a bidding battle has begun for bankrupt trucking company Yellow’s freight ter...

Featured Guests: Alan Patricof , chairman, Primetime Partners and founder & chairman emeritus, Greycroft Partners | Ajay Agarwal , partner, Bain Capital Ventures | Paul Cappelli , head of liquid passive strategies, Galaxy Digital TechCrunch acquires StrictlyVC, how generative AI will revolutionize work over the next decade, but potentially at the cost of human jobs, and bitcoin surges after a...

Featured Guests: Brian Rothenburg , partner, defy.vc | Géne Teare , senior data editor, Crunchbase News | Alex Fayette , partner, ACME Capital Multiple survey results to be released this week will shed light on the state of the American economy, almost half of 2021 IPO unicorns are now valued under $500 million dollars, and the Department of Energy commits $1.2 billion dollars to building carbon r...

Featured Guests: Jen Neundorfer , co-founder & managing partner, January Ventures | Chris Gardner , general partner, Underscore VC Allegations of abusive bosses, unhealthy cultures, and even sexual harassment in VC firms, fintech startup Ramp raises $300M, but its valuation drops by 28%, and two big venture backed startups, Instacart & Klaviyo, file for IPOs.

Featured Guests: Will Coleman , co-founder & CEO, Alto | Travis Connors , co-founder & managing partner, Building Ventures | Eyal Lifshitz , founder & CEO, Bluevine San Franciscans are not happy with driverless robo-taxis as they crash and cause bad traffic jams around the city, startups are benefiting from Inflation Reduction Act funding, and I chat with CEO Eyal Lifshitz, who just an...

Featured Guests: Thomas Tunguz , general partner & founder, Theory Ventures | Matt Kinsella , managing director, Maverick Ventures | Brian Schechter , partner, Primary | Brennan O’Donnell , partner, Frontline Ventures U.S. officials warn private space companies of espionage and hacking threats within their firms, Nvidia reports big revenue wins despite bottleneck in global chip supply chains,...

Featured Guests: Doug Clinton , co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Bob Rosin , partner, defy.vc Some countries are calling for global regulation of AI, while others warn against hasty lawmaking, newsrooms are deciding how transparent they want to be with readers in their use of generative AI, and Subway could have a buyer in Roark Capital Group for $9.6 billion dollars...

Featured Guests: Isabelle Freidheim , founder & chairman, Athena SPAC | Oliver Keown , managing director, Intuitive Ventures | Daniel Goldman , co-founder & managing partner, Clean Energy Ventures | Liam Donohue , co-founder & managing partner, .406 Ventures Chip designer Arm announces plans to go public in what should be the year’s biggest IPO, corporate VCs are retrenching their inve...

Featured Guests: James Currier , general partner & co-founder, NFX Capital | Will Robbins , general partner, Contrary | Richard Dulude , co-founder & general partner, Underscore VC Lawyers say you could be held liable for copyright infringement if you use what chat bots spit out, the case for VC generalism in an increasingly vertical-specific industry, and OpenAI makes its first acquisitio...

Featured Guests: Oliver Libby , managing partner & co-founder, H/L Ventures & CityRock Venture Partners | Lily Lyman , general partner, Underscore VC | Ansaf Kareem , founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital Over $220 billion of cleantech projects have begun since the IRA was passed one year ago, a Financial Times article claims VCs are wasting their time and your money, and the Sm...

Featured Guests: Vijay Balasubramaniyan , CEO & co-founder, Pindrop | Trier Bryant , general partner & president, 82VS Political campaigns are using AI to create deep faked smear ads. Should it be allowed? Biotech deals being down may mean more mergers and acquisitions soon, and employers are increasingly interested in AI skills on résumés.

Featured Guests: Oksana Malysheva , co-founder & managing partner, Sputnik ATX | Dominic Costanzo , vice president of portfolio, 43North Accelerators have doubled in the last decade and accelerator-backed startups have quadrupled, but is it too much too fast? IPOs have paused amid the stock market downturn, and OpenAI’s GPT-4 could replace content moderation jobs in the near future.