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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan says ‘do nothing’ about distillation

At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BreakingNews:Technology #businessnews #MicrosoftCorp #NewYorkTimesCo #Start-up #Technology #venturecapital
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/843797/

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan says ‘do nothing’ about distillation

At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BreakingNews:Technology #businessnews #MicrosoftCorp #NewYorkTimesCo #Start-up #Technology #venturecapital
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/843797/

Bernie is SO fucking close to getting it.

WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE VENTURE CAPITAL.

NOT AI companies for fucks sake.

Everyone focusing on the tech is missing the actual POWER and how to democratize it.

The VCs can and will fuckup EVERY technology and science and turn it into a torment nexus.

The fastest solution is to push out the VCs who keep crashing our economy from positions of economic power.

#AI #LLM #VC #VentureCapital #BernieSanders

Bernie is SO fucking close to getting it.

WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE VENTURE CAPITAL.

NOT AI companies for fucks sake.

Everyone focusing on the tech is missing the actual POWER and how to democratize it.

The VCs can and will fuckup EVERY technology and science and turn it into a torment nexus.

The fastest solution is to push out the VCs who keep crashing our economy from positions of economic power.

#AI #LLM #VC #VentureCapital #BernieSanders

Bernie is SO fucking close to getting it.

WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE VENTURE CAPITAL.

NOT AI companies for fucks sake.

Everyone focusing on the tech is missing the actual POWER and how to democratize it.

The VCs can and will fuckup EVERY technology and science and turn it into a torment nexus.

The fastest solution is to push out the VCs who keep crashing our economy from positions of economic power.

#AI #LLM #VC #VentureCapital #BernieSanders

Bernie is SO fucking close to getting it.

WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE VENTURE CAPITAL.

NOT AI companies for fucks sake.

Everyone focusing on the tech is missing the actual POWER and how to democratize it.

The VCs can and will fuckup EVERY technology and science and turn it into a torment nexus.

The fastest solution is to push out the VCs who keep crashing our economy from positions of economic power.

#AI #LLM #VC #VentureCapital #BernieSanders

Bernie is SO fucking close to getting it.

WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE VENTURE CAPITAL.

NOT AI companies for fucks sake.

Everyone focusing on the tech is missing the actual POWER and how to democratize it.

The VCs can and will fuckup EVERY technology and science and turn it into a torment nexus.

The fastest solution is to push out the VCs who keep crashing our economy from positions of economic power.

#AI #LLM #VC #VentureCapital #BernieSanders

#Newswire: The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed up to €30 million to Nordic Foodtech VC's second fund, which targets early-stage agrifood technology companies across Northern Europe. Backed by InvestEU, the pledge brings the Helsinki-based fund close to its €80 million target size and aims to help science-based startups in agriculture, food, aquaculture, and biosolutions bridge the gap from research to commercial use.

#Agrifood #VentureCapital #FoodTech

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/european-agrifood-tech-startups-get-investment-boost-30-million-eif-commitment-finnish-fund/press-release

#Newswire: The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed up to €30 million to Nordic Foodtech VC's second fund, which targets early-stage agrifood technology companies across Northern Europe. Backed by InvestEU, the pledge brings the Helsinki-based fund close to its €80 million target size and aims to help science-based startups in agriculture, food, aquaculture, and biosolutions bridge the gap from research to commercial use.

#Agrifood #VentureCapital #FoodTech

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/european-agrifood-tech-startups-get-investment-boost-30-million-eif-commitment-finnish-fund/press-release

#Newswire: The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed up to €30 million to Nordic Foodtech VC's second fund, which targets early-stage agrifood technology companies across Northern Europe. Backed by InvestEU, the pledge brings the Helsinki-based fund close to its €80 million target size and aims to help science-based startups in agriculture, food, aquaculture, and biosolutions bridge the gap from research to commercial use.

#Agrifood #VentureCapital #FoodTech

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/european-agrifood-tech-startups-get-investment-boost-30-million-eif-commitment-finnish-fund/press-release

#Newswire: The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed up to €30 million to Nordic Foodtech VC's second fund, which targets early-stage agrifood technology companies across Northern Europe. Backed by InvestEU, the pledge brings the Helsinki-based fund close to its €80 million target size and aims to help science-based startups in agriculture, food, aquaculture, and biosolutions bridge the gap from research to commercial use.

#Agrifood #VentureCapital #FoodTech

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/european-agrifood-tech-startups-get-investment-boost-30-million-eif-commitment-finnish-fund/press-release

#Newswire: The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed up to €30 million to Nordic Foodtech VC's second fund, which targets early-stage agrifood technology companies across Northern Europe. Backed by InvestEU, the pledge brings the Helsinki-based fund close to its €80 million target size and aims to help science-based startups in agriculture, food, aquaculture, and biosolutions bridge the gap from research to commercial use.

#Agrifood #VentureCapital #FoodTech

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/european-agrifood-tech-startups-get-investment-boost-30-million-eif-commitment-finnish-fund/press-release

@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/

Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face.

#venturecapital

@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/

Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face.

#venturecapital

@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/

Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face.

#venturecapital

@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/

Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face.

#venturecapital

@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/

Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face.

#venturecapital

https://www.europesays.com/people/221219/ Quote of the day by Peter Thiel: People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateChange #eBay #EconomicForce #PalantirTechnologies #Paypal #PeterThiel #TechnologyImpact #VentureCapital

https://www.laviezine.com/1635935/the-ex-airbnb-exec-betting-silicon-valley-can-reshape-san-francisco-dining/ The ex-Airbnb exec betting Silicon Valley can reshape San Francisco dining #BoomLoop #money #restaurants #SanFrancisco #SmallBusiness #VentureCapital

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

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#ArtificialIntelligence #Startup #VentureCapital

🚀 Let's all gather 'round for Anil's genius revelation: venture capital has changed! 🎉 What a #groundbreaking discovery! Next, he'll tell us the sky is blue or that water is wet. 🙄💧 Apparently, VCs are now more interested in funding malignant tumors than actual #innovation. How... entrepreneurial. 🙃
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/ #venturecapital #entrepreneurship #technews #HackerNews #ngated

VC isn't VC anymore

https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543220

#HackerNews #VC #VC #anymore #cancercapital #venturecapital #startupstories #innovation #trends

Cancer Capital: A critique of how large venture capital companies have become giant private equity companies with political agendas
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/
#venturecapital #corruption #politics #uspol #a16z #vc #-

Hävetti kun puhuin¹ rahastoista (koska platoninen ideaali olisi elää kädestä suuhun), mutta vaikea tässä on olla teeskentelemättä ettenkö olisi kasvanut keskituloisessa perheessä vaikka kuinka olen prekaari.

Joka tapauksessa, tämä vajaan minuutin klippi sanoo saman paremmin kuin mitä minä 16 viestissä.

(Ja kiitos kaikille jotka tykkäsi ketjun viesteistä, aidosti koin itseinhoa vaikka teen parhaani.)
_
¹ https://mastodon.social/@iju/117189242662995341

#explosivejoseph #standup #reddit #ai #venturecapital

Switzerland directs 63% of its venture capital towards deeptech—a higher share than the US or China.

Its technical universities, industrial expertise and dense talent networks have created an unusually productive startup ecosystem.

But foreign investors provide 88% of the capital in Swiss deeptech rounds above $100 million.

Switzerland produces the companies. Who captures the value when they scale?

https://www.movetheneedle.news/brands/how-switzerland-became-the-world-s-most-deeptech-focused-startup-economy/

#Deeptech #AI #robotics #venturecapital #startups #switzerland #EU

The founders of autonomous vehicle company Einride want to make deeptech scaling more systematic.

Their new venture platform, Navisalma, aims to invest €450 million in European deeptech companies over three years.

The premise is compelling: the difficult lessons learned while building and financing Einride could help the next generation of European founders avoid some of the same obstacles.

https://www.movetheneedle.news/brands/einride-founders-launch-navisalma-to-turn-deeptech-scaling-into-a-system/

#deeptech #startups #Europe #EU #technology #venturecapital #innovation

VCDir.com is featured on Awesome Indie! 🚀

VC Firms Database

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#Directories #Startup #VentureCapital

L’Europa ha le idee, i talenti e i risparmi: quello che continua a mancare è il capitale necessario per trasformare le imprese innovative in grandi protagonisti globali.

Nel 2025 gli investimenti in capitale di rischio in Europa hanno raggiunto circa 66 miliardi di euro, contro oltre 339 miliardi di dollari negli Stati Uniti. E non perché agli europei manchino le risorse: circa 10.000 MILIARDI di euro di risparmi delle famiglie dell’Unione sono ancora detenuti in depositi bancari.

Il problema è che troppo poco di quel capitale arriva alle imprese ad alta crescita. E così l’Europa finanzia ricerca, forma talenti e fa nascere innovazione, ma spesso sono capitali stranieri a sostenerne la crescita e a raccoglierne poi i frutti.

Per questo Volt vuole una vera Unione dei risparmi e degli investimenti: mercati più integrati, garanzie pubbliche mirate e un ruolo maggiore dei fondi pensione nel capitale di rischio europeo.

L’autonomia economica europea passa anche da qui: dare alle nostre imprese i capitali per crescere in Europa, invece di continuare a produrre innovazione che altri trasformano in potere economico.

#Startup #Innovazione #VentureCapital #Europa #Competitività #EuropaFederale #Volt #VoltItalia #VoltEuropa

Caller Teams With AI To Explain Why Free Markets Do Not Require Capitalism

A caller uses AI and Planet A Foods to expose how capitalism captures innovation while democratic free enterprise empowers workers, consumers, and communities.

Generalist Hits $3B Valuation as Robotics AI Race Intensifies

8VC leads $200M extension to Generalist's Series B, pushing total funding to $600M as investors bet on a robotics ChatGPT moment.

https://pulseofnations.lol/generalist-hits-3b/

#AI #Funding #Generalist #PhysicalAi #Robotics #Startup #VentureCapital

Silicon Valley Fraud Exposes Façading Tactics

In a shocking expose, researchers uncover a cunning tactic used by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to deceive investors: "façading," a deliberate process of creating and maintaining illusory growth stories to mask operational failure. By analyzing court records, they reveal a repeatable pattern of deception that has fooled even the most…

https://osintsights.com/silicon-valley-fraud-exposes-facading-tactics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#SiliconValley #EntrepreneurialFraud #FaçadingTactics #VentureCapital #EmergingThreats

Andreessen Horowitz is basically the venture capital version of an evil mastermind in a bad sci-fi movie 🎬🤖, investing in dystopian tech that even Black Mirror would reject. They're apparently on a mission to make "bleak" the new "innovative" while shaping AI policy with the same finesse a cat uses to knock things off a table 🐱💥.
https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16z-portfolio #AndreessenHorowitz #dystopianTech #AIpolicy #BlackMirror #ventureCapital #HackerNews #ngated

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16z-portfolio

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416055

#HackerNews #AndreessenHorowitz #investment #bleakfuture #techtrends #venturecapital #a16z

AI Is Failing At An Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/21/ai-is-failing-at-an-overwhelming-majority-of-companies-using-it-mit-study-finds/

Seed funding and first-time fund formation are headed for their weakest performance since 2016, even as California's venture totals hit record highs. The megadeals capturing 87.5% of U.S. funding may be crowding out early-stage investors. Worth monitoring as 2026 progresses. https://www.implicator.ai/openai-anthropic-california-venture-funding/ #venturecapital #startups #funding

California announced $366 billion in venture funding through August—nearly double its previous record. But two companies account for 59% of that total: OpenAI and Anthropic raised $217 billion combined. Concentration, not breadth, is driving the state's funding surge. https://www.implicator.ai/openai-anthropic-california-venture-funding/ #venturecapital #AI #startups

DOJ Probes Andreessen Horowitz Over Competing AI Board Seats

US Justice Department investigates whether venture giant a16z violated century-old antitrust law by having partners serve on boards of rival AI companies Databricks and Fivetran.

https://pulseofnations.lol/doj-probes-andreessen/

#AI #AndreessenHorowitz #Antitrust #Databricks #Doj #Fivetran #VentureCapital

Just like that BIG rolling ball in the opening sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark, this latest transformation trend in the film production business is ACCELERATING!

Backed by Silicon Valley venture capital boffins, a number of AI film studios are planting flags in Hollywood > with the potential of making traditional studios’ vast sound stages and financing less necessary, or required for the creation of hybrid AI films – human actors alongside AI technology. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-film-making #AI #Film #FilmIndustry #FilmStudios #Hollywood #VCs #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #Hybrid_AI_Films #AI_Film_Makers #Animation #FilmProduction

Kazakhstan’s startup scene is drawing global investors as more founders build technology for international markets from day one https://ow.ly/5h2850Zq1PM #Kazakhstan #Startups #VentureCapital #TechInvestment #StartupGrowth

How a New Generation of Startu...

AI is crushing startup valuations for pre-ChatGPT firms

Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images F…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #AlphabetClassA #ArtificialIntelligence #Banks #BreakingNews:Investing #BreakingNews:Markets #businessnews #DoorDashInc #FinTech #GrabHoldingsLtd #Investmentstrategy #KlarnaGroupPLC #MorganStanley #SalesforceInc #ServiceNowInc #Technology #venturecapital #WorkdayInc
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/677803/

How inflated ARR metrics are used to promote and legitimize AI startups

📰 Original title: How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups 

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

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/how-inflated-arr-metrics-are-used-to-promote-and-legitimize-ai-startups.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#business #arr #aistartups #venturecapital

VC funding is increasingly concentrated in AI-native startups, but capital alone does not create long-term advantage. In 2026, the strongest AI companies will win through proprietary datasets, domain expertise, and scalable execution. Beyond AI adoption, what is your startup’s true moat? #AIStartups #VentureCapital #Startups #SaaS #Founders

Corporate Incubators Gain Traction Among Millennial Founders

Millennial entrepreneurs are using corporate incubators more often. They want to grow their companies faster than going to business school. This helps them get money from investors.

#StartupGrowth, #MillennialFounders, #CorporateIncubators, #VentureCapital, #BusinessStrategy

https://newsletter.tf/millennial-founders-choose-corporate-incubators-faster-growth/

More millennial founders are choosing corporate incubators. This is a faster way to grow their companies compared to traditional methods like business school.

#StartupGrowth, #MillennialFounders, #CorporateIncubators, #VentureCapital, #BusinessStrategy
https://newsletter.tf/millennial-founders-choose-corporate-incubators-faster-growth/

Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/technology/ai-boom-unlike-dot-com-boom.html

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/01/black-forest-labs-hits-3-25b-valuation-pivots-to-visual-intelligence-with-series-b-xcxwbn/

#AI #GenAI #BlackForestLabs #VentureCapital #OpenSourceAI #VisualIntelligence #FLUX2 #MultimodalAI #AIReasoning

Black Forest Labs Hits $3.25B Valuation, Pivots to ‘Visual Intelligence’ with Series B

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee Puts Many Tech Start-Ups in a Bind - Silicon Valley start-ups said they were concerned they would be disproportionately hurt b... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/trump-h1b-visa-tech-start-ups.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #hiringandpromotion #entrepreneurship #foreignworkers #venturecapital #laborandjobs #hastingsreed #trumpdonaldj #netflixinc #start-ups #visas

Find Ventures shuts down program that helped Washington startups land non-dilutive funding - Elizabeth Scallon, Find Ventures co-founder. (LinkedIn Photo)

Find Ventures is ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/find-ventures-shuts-down-program-that-helped-washington-startups-land-non-dilutive-funding/ #departmentofcommerce #elizabethscallon #venturecapital #findventures #startups

An excellent article by @AnnPettifor on how private equity has taken advantage of the modern state where she says capitalism now bears uncomfortable semblance to the Soviet economic system.

#PrivateEquity #VentureCapital #StateCapitalism #Deregulation #Economics

Private Equity as Public Debt - by Ann Pettifor
https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/private-equity-as-public-debt