IT総合 3 Views on a16z’s latest reported early-stage effort
a16z, a venture capital firm known for its large fund sizes and for shaking up the VC game when it piled into the indust...
Rebecca Szkutak
IT総合 IT総合 Deal Dive: Why this startup chose to sell itself over raising a Series A
Not all startups are built for a billion-dollar exit — or to grow as a stand-alone company at all.
The appearance of eas...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Gradiant is the new kind of unicorn worth getting excited about
Remember when it was actually interesting to see a startup becoming a unicorn?
A company reaching the billion-dollar val...
IT総合 The billionaires are trying to live longer… again
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 The new rules of venture debt are already being written
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was not the end of venture debt, but it was likely the end of companies raisin...
IT総合 5 investors discuss what’s in store for venture debt following SVB’s collapse
There are many questions around the implications of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse that won’t be answe...
IT総合 Emerging managers shouldn’t rush a first close – even in this market
Fundraising has gotten increasingly tough over the last year for funds of all stripes, and especially so for emerging ma...
IT総合 Motherhood, mentorship, and management with Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan from Samooha
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.
This week Becca and Dom are joined by Kamakshi Siv...
IT総合 Active founders make good investors, but do they make good VCs?
Operator experience has become critical in venture capital over the last few years. Pure-play financial VCs are falling ...
IT総合 Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers
Building and maintaining relationships is hard, and COVID-19 definitely didn’t help. Multiple studies have shown t...
IT総合 Boxed wine can be bougie with Allison Luvera and Lauren De Niro Pipher from Juliet
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.
This week we welcome Dominic Madori-Davis to the s...
IT総合 Ascend raises $25 million for pre-seed AI startups in the Pacific Northwest
Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. But as last year’s...
IT総合 Deal Dive: VC interest in wildfire tech grows as the world burns around us
Wildfires, and the damage they cause, are a growing problem. The U.S. saw more than 66,000 wildfires in 2022 alone, and ...
IT総合 Down rounds are a ‘ticket to try again,’ says founder who raised 3 in a row
For the past year, everyone’s been predicting that the muted exit environment and bone-dry funding market would bring a ...
IT総合 Has the seed stage come back down to earth? It depends where you look
It’s been over a year since macroeconomic headwinds started wreaking havoc on venture capital. Late-stage startups...
IT総合 Filling in the learning disability assessment gaps with Stefan Bauer form Marker Learning
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.
This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Stefan B...
IT総合 How startups can produce social content that actually resonates
Social media can be a great tool for startups to gain visibility and garner a following among investors and customers, b...
IT総合 Blank Street cracked the code on making coffee shops attractive to VC
In the Summer of 2020, a mint green coffee cart appeared in Williamsburg’s McCarren park near the Greenpoint entra...
IT総合 Curing disease with CRISPR with Trevor Martin from Mammoth Biosciences
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.
This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Trevor M...
IT総合 Yeah, the data is bad, but I’m still optimistic about emerging managers
Emerging managers have been on the same rollercoaster as startups for the last few years. Funding to these young firms s...
IT総合 Secondary market trackers are lighting up a traditionally dark deal environment
As many private companies try to avoid raising capital in the current market, it’s become significantly harder to ...
IT総合 TechCrunch’s startup building podcast Found is nominated for a Webby Award
Each week listeners can tune into Found to get the real stories behind today’s startups. And while that isn’...
IT総合 To raise an opportunity fund this year or to not raise an opportunity fund?
One of the biggest venture capital trends of the last few years was early-stage firms raising “opportunity” ...
IT総合 Lux Capital ditches its opportunity fund in latest fundraise
Lux Capital, known for investing in life science and frontier tech startups, is back in the market to fundraise for its ...
IT総合 Slowly but surely, data is helping VCs look beyond networks for sourcing deals
Venture capital has traditionally been an industry that revolves around relationships. VCs invest in a startup’s i...
IT総合 Getting people to try new things IRL with Sarah Peterson from The Nudge
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.
This week Becca and guest host Amanda Silberling a...
IT総合 Ensemble raises $100M debut fund to bet on startup teams — but not in the way you think
Almost any venture capitalist will say that they back startups based on the strength of the founding team. But what abou...
IT総合 Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies
Being an artificial intelligence company has become the soup du jour of startup land. Companies are scrambling to either...
IT総合 SVB collapse spared an already muted venture deal market
When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed earlier this month, venture had already been navigating choppy waters for over a year...
IT総合 Building Generative AI before it was cool with Angela Hoover from Andi
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.
This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Angela H...