Venture Daily

Featured Guests: George Kellerman , managing director, Woven Capital | Semyon Dukach , founding partner, One Way Ventures San Francisco is the first city to allow for driverless taxis with no restrictions, VCs are not saving many dying startups, and Gulf countries have just purchased thousands of semiconductor chips to join the AI arms race.

Featured Guest: Promise Phelon , founder & managing partner, Growth Warrior Capital Fearless Fund responds to the lawsuit accusing it of violating racial discrimination laws, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is sent to jail, and thousands gather in Las Vegas for a hacking conference to try to break generative AI models.

Featured Guests: Karthik Balakrishnan , president & co-founder, Actual | Andrew Adams , co-founder & managing partner, Oak HC/FT | Chris Kolbe , co-founder & CEO, HyperNatural Corporate America is using the term “ESG” less and less, some top startups have weathered rocky venture markets and are approaching profitability, and Coach’s Tapestry acquires Versace’s Capri Holdings for $8.5 b...

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk , co-founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Caroline Healey , director, Antler | Rob Biederman , managing partner, Asymmetric Capital President Biden has signed an executive order banning certain US tech and AI investments with China, Sequoia and Y Combinator’s uncommon VC firm layoffs raise questions about the future of VC layoffs, and WeWork says there is “subst...

Featured Guests: Trevis Waters , co-founder & COO, Betkarma.com | Ben Stokes , founding partner, Chasing Rainbows ESPN’s $2 billion deal with Penn Entertainment to rebrand Barstool Sportsbook as their own sportsbook, ESPN BET, surveys show Americans distrust AI, and Google and Universal Music Group are discussing a deal to license artists’ voices to protect against AI deepfakes.

Featured Guests: Tinia Pina , founder & CEO, Re-Nuble | Luke Cooper , founder & chairman, Latimer Ventures | Ali Hamed , general partner, Crossbeam Venture Partners | Himanshu Gupta , co-founder & CEO, ClimateAI Fearless Fund, a VC firm that invests in early-stage women of color-led businesses, is being sued for racial discrimination, private equity attempts to incentivize investors wi...

Featured Guests: Nick Cavanaugh , founder & CEO, Sensible Weather | Scott Fletcher , cofounder, Intersection Growth Partners The science behind weather forecasting and how A.I. is advancing the tech, popular bug bounty program HackerOne announces layoffs of 12% of its workforce, and the Elon Musk v. Mark Zuckerberg fight may actually be happening.

Featured Guests: Mark Gudiksen , managing partner, Piva Capital | Patrick Driscoll , general partner, Chasing Rainbows The LK-99 superconductor presents a potentially huge scientific breakthrough, unicorns are in fire sale mode, and Tim Cook finally addresses Apple’s plan for optimizing AI technology.

Featured Guests: Mark McClain , founder & CEO, Sailpoint Technologies | Ted Dillon , COO, Clean Energy Ventures | Chase Roberts , principal, Vertex Ventures Generative AI tools pose new and dangerous cybersecurity threats, climate tech investors worry the Inflation Reduction Act could be repealed if Republicans win in 2024, and the Big 4 accounting firms, PWC, Deloitte, EY, and KPMG are pushin...

Featured Guests: Scott Beechuk , partner, Norwest | Mat Ellis , co-founder & CEO, Sixty A.I. | Aziz Gilani , managing director, Mercury Fund | Jun Hong Heng , founder & CIO, Crescent Cove NATO raises over $1 billion dollars for their new venture fund, U.S. restrictions on exporting chip tech to China seems to have slowed China chip markets, and Birkenstock eyes an IPO as early as September...

Featured Guests: Alberto Yepez , co-founder & managing director, Forgepoint Capital | Tyler Williams , head of legislative & regulatory affairs, Galaxy Digital The SEC passes a new law for public companies to report cyber attacks, two crypto bills make it to the House floor for the first time ever, and Facebook’s algorithm does not appear to contribute to online polarization.

Featured Guest: Tomasz Tunguz , general partner, Theory Ventures Is the U.S. falling behind China in the AI arms race? Some believe the lack of regulation from the U.S. government is hindering its ability to keep up. We sat down for an extended interview with veteran venture capitalist, Tomasz Tunguz.

Featured Guests: Doug Clinton , co-founder & partner, Deep Water Asset Management | Joe Merrill , general partner, Sputnik ATX OpenAI , Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, four of the leading AI companies, establish the Frontier Model Forum to self-regulate, Singapore’s GIC says private equity’s golden age is over, and Netflix offers $900,000 dollars for an AI job amidst writer’s strike in Holly...

Featured Guests: Peter Wagner , founding partner, Wing Venture Capital | Alex Lazarow , managing partner, Fluent Ventures | Rohan Pujara , general partner, Valhalla Ventures Quarterly earnings results drop this week for big tech companies, Valhalla Ventures raises a flagship fund of $66 million, and the U.S. Senate votes in new rules for China-based investments.

Featured Guests: Saxon Baum , general partner, Florida Funders | Rakesh Mathur , entrepreneur & cofounder, Fizz Twitter announces its new name and logo, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube are facing lawsuits from schools nationwide for causing harm to student mental health, and Credit Suisse is fined $388 million dollars over Archegos Capital collapse.

Featured Guests: Brian S. Raymond , founder and CEO, Unstructured | Sam Smith-Eppsteiner , partner, Innovation Endeavors The largest AI companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI make commitments to the White House that they will implement measures to make the tech safer, foreign companies are the biggest winners under America’s climate tech law, and Marc Andreesen shares about his son’s relatio...

Featured Guests: George Mathew , managing director, Insight Partners | Devon Kirk , co-head and partner, Portage Capital Solutions Blackstone President Jonathan Gray predicts that the private markets deal drought is coming to an end, the Fed introduces FedNow, a real-time electronic payments system, and a U.S. House Committee is investigating VC firms for financing China-based startups.

Featured Guests: Brian Rothenberg , partner, defy.vc | Rob Biederman , managing partner, Asymmetric Capital Partners Senators propose bipartisan ban on U.S. lawmakers from owning stocks, the FTC puts private equity ‘on notice’ for acquisition roll-ups, and a lightning round covering three stories you need to know from yesterday.

Featured Guests: Nick Lockett , CTO and co-founder, Pear Suite | Nnamdi Okike , co-founder and managing partner, 645 Ventures | Mili Raina , investor, Crossbeam Venture Partners Meta introduces Llama 2, an open-source LLM that could rival ChatGPT, OpenAI strikes a deal with AJP to help fund AI technology experimentation in local news and journalism, and Threads plateaus, losing half its active use...

Featured Guests: Drew Glover , CEO and founder, Fiat Growth & General Partner, Fiat Ventures | Will Robbins , General Partner, Contrary ARK’s Cathie Wood says they have written down their Twitter stake by 47%, Goldman Sachs forecasts the chances of a recession are unlikely, and crypto investment firm Paradigm hires Alex Grieve, their new government relations lead.

Featured Guests: Neha Sampat , founder and CEO, Contentstack | Emily Walsh , lead investor, Georgian The Screen Actors Guild joins writers in strike against the emergence of AI, startups explore sales amidst dry venture markets, and the FTC fails to block US judge's decision in Microsoft-Activision merger.

Featured Guests: Iman Abuzeid , co-founder and CEO, Incredible Health | Bradley Tusk , co-founder and CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan , co-founder and CEO, Samooha | Tyler Norwood , U.S. Managing Partner, Antler Only 1% of venture funding goes to Black founders, the FTC launches an investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT, and are firms facing scrutiny from their limited partne...

Featured Guests: Kamran Ansari , former GreyCroft venture partner & Head of Corporate Development & Strategy at Pinterest | Chris Metinko, Senior Reporter, Crunchbase News U.S. Inflation rate slows to 3%, the lowest it's been since 2021, Elon Musk unveils his new AI company, xAI, and cybersecurity funding is down 63%, a surprise for the historically stable sector.

Featured Guests: Neil Sequeira , Founder and Partner, defy.vc | Jai Das , President and Partner, Sapphire Ventures An OECD report suggests that 27% of jobs are at risk to be replaced by AI, Sapphire Ventures commits $1 billion to AI investments, and Microsoft’s $75 billion merger with Activision-Blizzard will not be blocked by U.S. courts.

Featured Guests: Nick Lockett , Co-Founder & CTO, Pear Suite | Michael Cortez , Partner, YL Ventures | Himalaya Rao-Potlapally , Managing Director, BFM Fund Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement, Massachusetts lawmakers have proposed a total ban of the buying and selling of cell phone location data, and anti-ESG sentiment is on the rise accordin...