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Big Guns Including Bezos & Blackstone Join the AI Transformation Fray
Plus, venture funds from the last 4 years are outperforming those from 2017-2021 on paper
 • Jonathan Weber and Madeline Renbarger
VC RETURNS REVEALED: Recent Thrive & Notable Funds in a League of Their Own at UTIMCO
See the performance for 50+ funds held by the University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Co.
 • Madeline Renbarger
Announcing the Cerebral Valley Voice Summit, Featuring Sierra's Bret Taylor, Abridge's Shiv Rao & More Top Founders
The summit will be on May 6 in San Francisco. Applications are now open.
 • Eric Newcomer
Founders Fund, General Catalyst & Spark Capital Crave Even Bigger War Chests
Plus, a big data center shuffle keeps everyone happy, for now
 • Madeline Renbarger and Tom Dotan
Cursor Weighs Fresh Fundraise as Debate Rages on Coding Firm's Prospects
Very early discussions involve a $5 billion raise at a valuation of up to $60 billion
 • Tom Dotan
Bessemer: Legacy SaaS Is Dead, But a New Wave of Applications Will Thrive
Byron Deeter sees LLMs as powerful platforms supporting AI-native apps
 • Tom Dotan
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-a16z Partner Michelle Volz Launches Pax Ventures with $50 Million First Fund to Bet on 'Industrial-Scale Markets'
I talked with Volz about going solo in a world where megafirms reign supreme
 • Eric Newcomer
Anthropic's Poorly Timed Truth-Telling
Plus, venture returns under scrutiny & a rush of deals for space startups
 • Eric Newcomer, Jonathan Weber, Madeline Renbarger, and Tom Dotan
Venture Investors See Big Promise in AI-Native Cybersecurity Startups
Penetration testing startup Xbow could soon join the unicorn club
 • Madeline Renbarger
OpenAI Raises $110 Billion & Throws In With Amazon as Capital Arms Race Rages
Plus, anxiety about AI's impact brings renewed market chaos as Citrini & Citadel Securities draw opposite conclusions. Block's big layoff stokes the…
 • Tom Dotan and Madeline Renbarger
Sequoia’s Former India Unit Rocked by a Bitter Split Over Power & Profit Shares
The fight led to the departure of 3 partners & sent Peak XV Partners scrambling to rescue a crucial fundraise
 • M. Sriram
Startups Target the Tricky Task of Making AI Seem More Human
Simulated human behavior companies raise millions
 • Madeline Renbarger
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