Fundraising & Venture Capital

⚽ Axios Pro Rata: Red card

🔥World's Hottest Startups in August 2026

The AI Layoff Trap⚠️, Agentic GTM🔍, The Next Era of VC Secondaries💰

Edition #15: H1 2026 State of Fundraising, GPs Backing GPs Map, Our Private Villa Event in SF

The 375 Prompt Book for Fundraising

Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores

🐬 Axios Pro Rata: Dolphin dollars

💥How Top 5% VCs Keep Winning, Time Between Rounds, Reserve Strategies, State of SPVs & More

New VC Funds Raised: Q2 2026 Recap

Silicon slump puts IPOs on ice

Sam Altman Says We're Already Living Inside the Singularity. Here Are His 10 Rules for Building Right Now.

Axios Pro Rata: Nuclear proliferation

OpenAI’s IPO delay is the valuation signal

These Are The Mistakes That Cost Founders Their First Deal

20VC: Leading Anthropic's First Ever Round | Will Open Source Threaten Anthropic's Business | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Not Good Enough Today | Why Series A is Hard Today with Matt Murphy @ Menlo

Axios Pro Rata: Capital concern

Decacorns are the new unicorns

The Investor Outreach System: List, Prompts, Sequence, Replies

Axios Pro Rata: VCs add CAIOs

SCOOP: Fundraising Documents Reveal IVP Quietly Raising $1.8 Billion, Boasting 31.1% Net IRR Since Firm's Inception

Building the Physical AI Stack | Travis Kalanick on TBPN

When AI agents buy and sell

How to Give Top-Tier Demos Like a Pro

Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?

Axios Pro Rata: 🦣 Colossal scoop

When $188B is quaint

Anthropic Raised $580M With No Product. Here Is the Deck

SambaNova CEO on Raising $1B at $11B: "It's a Land Grab Right Now"

Amjad Masad on Going Direct, Building Replit, and the Future of Software

SCOOP: Menlo Ventures Sees IRR of 40%+ on Recent Funds After Doubling Down on Anthropic

The Board Meeting Operating System

💥AI Kills Junior VC Roles, Fundraising Benchmarks, Mega-Funds Eating Themselves, Founder Branding System & More

51: Nan Ransohoff - Power Laws for Philanthropy

John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482]

Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of July 14, 2026

Your Investor List Is 90% Dead Weight

AI's musical chairs

Anthropic Just Hired a Nobel Laureate, an OpenAI Co-Founder, and a YC Partner in Nine Weeks

🔥How to Gain an Edge When Everyone Uses the Same AI Model

Venture Capital Isn’t What It Used to Be, and It's at a Crossroads

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch

The Most Improbable Venture Fund Ever Built

20VC: Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI: Fool or Genius? | Alex Karp Sounds the Alarm: Enterprises Fear Frontier Models & Questionable ROI of AI | The Rise of Chinese Open Source: Deepseek Building Own Chips

Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour vs. the Federal Government

Record VC exits don't help all

Axios Pro Rata: Unsealed skulduggery

Signs of a data center peak

Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of July 7, 2026

The VC hubs of the World Cup stage

BREAKING: Inside Accel - Cursor, Nebius, Cyera, Facebook..

The Spreadsheet That Killed My Runway Anxiety

Why Most VCs Misunderstand Their Own Fund Economics

Tech Investors Will Be Sweating the Dog Days of Summer in More Ways Than One

Posts from VC News Daily for 07/02/2026

Edition #14: 37 New Funds, 1000 Fund Managers Mapped, DPI Benchmark

New Q2 VC data, new dashboard

Elon Musk's 2007 Interview Predicted the Next 18 Years

Comcast splits as peers combine

The State of the AI Economy 📈, Ship Your First AI Agent in a Day🛠️, How to Steal a Customer Base🍴

Quantum leap

Are Mega-Funds Taking Over Seed?

💥Workflows Are King, Guide to Cold Emails, Seed Is Dying, VC Tourists Are Leaving, WTF Is a Loop? & More

Beneath VC's splashy deals

The Fund That Backed Revolut at £300K. Now Raising $320M for What Comes Next

Same round, different price tag

VC Horror Stories: The Week Founders Stopped Pretending

BREAKING: Private Jets 101

Solar surge

20VC: SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN | Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix and Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN and The Case for Sovereign Models | Fin Acquired by Salesforce for $3.6BN

Weekly TOP Startup / VC news of June 18, 2026

Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of June 16, 2026

TBPN, Jack Altman, a16z, Now It’s Lightspeed's Media Move

NEW: How 137 Ventures Built a 1%+ SpaceX Position

SpaceX IPO: Inside the Firm That Owns 1%

Alexandr Wang on One Year Leading Meta AI

We had it coming

All-In's Best Ideas Pitch Competition: 4 Investors Present Their Top Trades Live

✍️Takeaways from our DDVC x SuperReturn Breakfast + 5 Top Tools

It's launch day

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist"

Axios Pro Rata: VCs behaving badly

💥Fund Performance Benchmarks, How Agent Loops Work, Portfolio Construction, Enterprise Software Playbook & More

Emerging Manager Q&A: Jason Zins about $50M Nomi Defense Fund I

The Venture Capital Liquidity Crisis That Nobody Is Talking About

Uncapped #52 | Mike Volpi from Hanabi Capital

AI IPOs are off to the races

Posts from VC News Daily for 06/09/2026

Who's paying Trump's H-1B fee?

Inside the Private Stock Market Boom: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI & the Rise of Secondaries

Dan Loeb: The Lost Art of Short Selling, and Why Stock Picking is Back

Axios Pro Rata: AI USA Inc.

20VC: Anthropic Files to Go Public | Token Budgeting Panic Hits Corporate America | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | Apollo Warns PE Software Returns Will be Disastrous | The 9-9-6 Work Ethic: Performative Theatre or Startup Reality?

Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave, 2026's Unicorn Economy, and the 10X Paradox

Axios Pro Rata: a16z goes global

OpenAI goes public as AI's worst value

ICYMI: Out of 50K+ Global Startups, 5 Won The $1M Pitch

💥 Mega-Funds Take Over Seed, Emerging Managers Rebound, Fee vs Carry, Hermes Agent Masterclass & More

Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo

BREAKING: Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D

Axios Pro Rata: New ballgame

Edition #13: 25 New Funds, Most Active Seed Mega Platforms, Top 100 US VC Firms

Slow Takeoff: 2026

Axios Pro Rata: Anthropic ascends

Stop Asking What Your Startup Is Worth

Why $1B Exits are Dead

Axios Pro Rata: Groq 2.0

VC Fund of Funds: The Market

Axios Pro Rata: Field of Dumb

Music catalogs strike a chord

McKinsey Charges $500K for This Framework. Here Is How to Wire It Into Claude for Free

US private credit spreads widen

How This One Fund Built The Entire Venture Capital Industry

Can Oura jolt healthtech exits?

Axios Pro Rata: SpaceX marks the spot

Axios Pro Rata: Frozen

💥 What Matters at Seed, Are Systems of Record Dead?, Growing AI Task Horizons & More

🔥Network Is the New Data. Most Firms Don't Know Its Worth.

Krishna Rao - Anthropic's CFO on Compute, Scaling to $30B ARR, and the Returns to Frontier Intelligence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.471]

SpaceX's IPO wild card

California's Billionaire Tax Heads for the Ballot. A Compromise Would Serve Everyone Well.

Edition #12: 23 New Funds, Consensus Capital Age, Best Seed Picking VCs

Crossovers bet big before the bell

Axios Pro Rata: Sam at stake

Venture debt hits decade high

Mistral AI's €105M Memo📄, Enterprise SaaS Defense⚔️, Seed Math Broke💰

💥30 MCPs to Make Claude 100x More Powerful, Unicorn University Rankings, Why Seed Investing Is Broken & More

Mistral raised €105M at seed with 6 employees, 4 weeks in, and no customers. Here is the memo that did it

The US VC Database Most Founders Never Build

We're Back. The Cerebral Valley AI Summit Returns to London on June 24.

General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Review | CEO Hemant Taneja

BREAKING: General Catalyst's First-Ever Quarterly Review

Axios Pro Rata: Biotech record-breaker

How SAFEs Became Silicon Valley’s Default Contract

Does Education Matter in the Age of AI? MIT President Sally Kornbluth

Anthropic Is Playing Hard to Get with Investors

How to Actually Move to San Francisco and Build a Startup: The Complete Founder Guide

Some OpenAI Investors Are Nervous about the Company's Direction

OpenAI and Anthropic's ARR row

Defense tech's next IPO test

The GTM System Most Founders Build Too Late

🔥"Who Else Is Investing" Isn't Lazy, But Actually Smart

Axios Pro Rata: Ties that bind

2,500 Angel Investors. All SaaS. All Searchable.

How Should Emerging Managers Approach Marketing?

Axios Pro Rata: D1 dollars

Anthropic's Revenue Surges While OpenAI Debates the Timing of Its IPO

🏀 Axios Pro Rata: Game on

What the Heck Is Happening at OpenAI? Our Bonkers Monday Cliff Notes

You're invited: My first VC/LP mixer in SF

The liquidity puzzle in interval funds

BREAKING: Applied Intuition - $15B Physical AI Co. Out Of Stealth

158: V4发布前的DeepSeek：人才竞争、组织特点和独特的AGI目标

SpaceX IPO, Iran War Fallout, Quantum Bitcoin Hack, The Space Opportunity

Axios Pro Rata: AI IPOs

VC exit boom left most behind

The Story Behind Every Great Startup Is the Most Overlooked Skill

Axios Pro Rata: Climate surrender

SCOOP: Y Combinator Startups Land Checks, Gather Hype as Neo & Others Vie for Talent

It's Official: SpaceX Has Filed (Confidentially, That Is)

OpenAI’s Cap Table Just Leaked. Here’s What’s Actually Inside.

Axios Pro Rata: Retail revival

💥How to Become a VC Partner, Importance of Sourcing vs Picking, Firm vs Fund Focus & More

Harvey & Legora in a Land-Grab Race for Dominance of Legal AI

Anthropic Accidentally Exposes Claude Code's Code

Feds Probe Possible Insider Trading on Polymarket and Kalshi

What Is Your Startup Actually Worth? Most Founders Find Out Too Late

How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery

Axios Pro Rata: Blast off

How VCX Put Anthropic & OpenAI Into Public Markets

BREAKING: Inside VCX — The Public Venture Capital Fund

20VC: The Venture Model is Broken | You Need to be Greedy and Selfish to Win Early Stage Investing | Why Margins Do Not Matter for Early-Stage Startups | The Growth Rate that is Required in a World of AI with Gili Raanan, Founder @ Cyberstarts

Inside Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz’s Multi-Family Office

Save This if You Want to Build a Startup in 2026

Axios Pro Rata: GLP-1 unicorn

The nuance behind evergreen funds

Every Resource a Founder Needs to Raise and Build. In One Place

VC Returns Revealed: Bessemer India’s Slow-Build Strategy Put to the Test

How to deploy $100B

Guilty: Meta Must Pay for Endangering Kids

Uncapped #45 | Ron Conway from SV Angel

Uncapped #45 | Ron Conway from SV Angel

💡Billion-Dollar Founder Patterns, Fund Return Analysis, Tech Hiring Surge & More

Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

RIP debt's golden era

High Profile Startup Delve Faces Fraud Accusations

YC W26 Demo Day: Everything You Need to Know About the Strongest Batch in Y Combinator History

20VC: Inside Anduril's $20BN Army Contract & Why Anduril Must Go Public | Why 99% of Drone Companies Will Die | Why There is Never an Ethical Question of How Anduril Products are Used with Matthew Steckman, President @ Anduril

How to Build a Real Operating Plan: Inside a Fully Linked Startup FP&A Model

Axios Pro Rata: Bezos bucks

You’re Not a Fraud. You’re Undervalued: Why Reverse Imposter Syndrome Hits Founders Hard

Axios Pro Rata: AI builds AI

The problem with mega IPOs

Axios Pro Rata: TikTok toll

VC RETURNS REVEALED: Recent Thrive & Notable Funds in a League of Their Own at UTIMCO

AI's builders and bankers

what'syour SaaS company Worth in 2026?

Axios Pro Rata: PE + AI

Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara

💡Where LPs Invest, How VCs Generate Alpha, Hyped Funding Rounds and Success, Concentration in Private Markets & More

William Hockey - Building the Operating System for the Dollar and Silicon Valley Heresy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.463]

A winner-takes-most reality

Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook

BREAKING: Deel Hits $1.4B+ ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz

😱 Selling AI fear

Axios Pro Rata: Affinity marketing

Tether's new pastime

Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare

Airwallex Raises $330M and The Battle with Keith Rabois & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on the Polymarket Rivalry & the Future of Prediction Markets

Thrive & OpenAI Partnership, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan

Joey Krug on Prediction Markets, Crypto Treasuries & the Next Era of On-Chain Finance

NVIDIA’s Core Business Threatened by TPUs, Sam Altman’s ‘War Mode’ & Sierra’s $100M ARR

$1B founder explains how to come up with a great startup idea

Every Business I Tried Before Making My First Million

$1M to $10M: The enterprise sales playbook with Jen Abel

Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook

Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation

Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global