#venture-capital — Public Fediverse posts

General Catalyst releases parody video targeting venture capital culture

📰 Original title: General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/general-catalyst-releases-parody-video-targeting-venture-capital-culture.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#business #venturecapital #parody #startups

Kevin Hartz’s Venture Firm A* Raises $450 Million for Third Fund

📰 Original title: Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/kevin-hartz-s-venture-firm-a-raises-450-million-for-third-fund.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#business #venturecapital #startups #investment

"“Some libertarians care about the freedom of only one person,” Peter Thiel, the entrepreneur, investor, and right-wing provocateur, once said of his friend Sacks.

In this sense, though Trump is impulsive and narcissistic while Sacks is cold-eyed and logical, they are well matched. “Sacks is a spirit animal for part of the president’s brain,” a former Biden-administration official told me. “The plutocratic part.” After the election, the new president appointed Sacks as his special adviser, or “czar,” for AI and crypto. After decades of keeping as far from Washington as possible, Silicon Valley would finally have its own man in the White House.

But Sacks has always taken a dim view of politics. At 25, appearing on a C‑SPAN talk show while still in law school, he expressed a preference for “the ethos of Wall Street” over “the ethos of Washington” and quoted Calvin Coolidge on the business of America being business, avowing: “I’d probably rather live in a greedy country where people don’t share than in an envious country where people are stealing from each other.”

Sacks went to Washington on behalf of business, including his own. But business and politics demand different, sometimes opposing talents. “Sacks’s policies are misaligned with his own party,” a congressional aide with a close view of how Sacks operates in Washington told me. “He doesn’t really understand how D.C. works.” His efforts in government on behalf of the tech industry have exposed the president to the charge that Trump is selling out his populist base on behalf of the country’s richest men, driving a wedge through the MAGA coalition."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/david-sacks-crypto-ai-venture-capital/686941/

#USA #BigTech #Trump #Crypto #AI #SiliconValley #VentureCapital

This is the hardware equivalent of "let them eat cake".

#HUDIMM is somewhat of a misdirect, as it really is just a way of making the manufacturing cheaper in order to produce more consumer goods.

In the end #VentureCapital has basically screwed over entire markets with their up and popping bubble, and everyone's expected to fall in line.

https://www.techpowerup.com/348323/asrock-develops-hudimm-memory-standard-ddr5-with-just-one-sub-channel

New Analyse Podcast episode: China Commercialises, US Theorises.

Rebecca Fannin argues that the US still leads in frontier AI innovation, but China’s advantage is commercialisation: turning technology into products, platforms and scaled adoption.

https://youtu.be/Nz_qKQh8s_0

China’s strength is manufacturing depth, vertical integration and execution speed.

The bigger shift: tech competition is becoming multipolar.

#AI #ChinaTech #VentureCapital

a16z Crypto Launches $2.2 Billion Fund Amid Slowing Market

📰 Original title: As crypto cools, a16z crypto raises a $2.2B fund

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/a16z-crypto-launches-2-2-billion-fund-amid-slowing-market/?redirpost=97628acb-169f-48b1-9529-f27c616a9dd7&utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yOAxulYDJiR0231eonVH5fVZzdi42_IDdV5yvxQXYkQ

#business #crypto #venturecapital #startups

Inside the #TechCult : How #VentureCapital Plans to Exit #Democracy

#TheNerdReich

#tech

https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1801103648/the-nerd-reich/inside-the-tech-cult-how-venture-capital-plans-to-exit-democracy

🎉 Witness the noble journey of a person who spent $600 just to tell the world that giving away software for free is a revolution! 🤣 The solution to all evil capitalist overlords? Just slap a "free as in beer" #sticker on it and hope venture capitalists don't show up with a $12.99 ad-supported subscription plan. 🍺✨
https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026 #freeSoftware #revolution #capitalism #humor #ventureCapital #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, nothing screams "cybersecurity excellence" like leaving #military #data wide open for 150 days at a #startup funded by venture capitalists who think "Strix" is a cool name. 🤦‍♂️🎖️ It's almost as if they thought "multi-tenant authorization" was a game of hide and seek, but forgot to say "found you". 🙈🔐
https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup #cybersecurity #fail #venturecapital #Strix #data #breach #HackerNews #ngated

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/uk-invention-agency-aria-pledges-70-million-public-money-us-tech-venture-capital-dominic-cummings #ResearchAndDevelopment #Technology #UkNews #Science #VentureCapital #Business

Ineffable Snags Mammoth Seed Round

London startup Ineffable received $1.1 billion in seed funding, the largest in Europe. This impacts UK tech investment and AI development.

#LondonTech, #StartupFunding, #AI, #VentureCapital, #UKBusiness

https://newsletter.tf/london-startup-ineffable-gets-1-1b-seed-funding/

Ineffable, a London startup, has raised $1.1 billion in seed funding. This is the biggest seed round ever in Europe, showing strong investor interest in UK tech.

#LondonTech, #StartupFunding, #AI, #VentureCapital, #UKBusiness
https://newsletter.tf/london-startup-ineffable-gets-1-1b-seed-funding/

'OpenAI missed its own targets of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of 2025 — a threshold it still has yet to cross — as well as several revenue targets, further highlighting concerns...It’s a foreboding portent for an industry currently burning through tens of billions of cash while revenues have fallen far behind'

#technology #genAI #ventureCapital #21stCenturyGrift

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-shambles-users-revenue-ipo

Wie erzähle ich eine Equity Story, die Investor:innen wirklich überzeugt? 💰
// Marie Wysk – Senior Transaction Manager, FASE Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship

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// Bei #Waterkant26 erfahrt ihr von Marie, was Investor:innen wirklich überzeugt und wie man die eigene Wachstumsgeschichte so erzählt, dass Kapital folgt.

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#fundraising #equitystory #socialentrepreneurship #impactinvesting #scaleup #venturecapital #waterkant26

Kompas VC Adapts Investment Strategy to Regional Differences and Long-Term Industrial Opportunities

📰 Original title: How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/kompas-vc-adapts-investment-strategy-to-regional-differences-and-long-term-industrial-opportunities/?redirpost=73555f01-8d9e-499a-ad6e-ffd510fcdd6f

#business #venturecapital #startups #investment

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