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In line with national trends, startups in and around the nation’s capital continue putting their faith in not making every employee go to one office daily. Founders cited benefits like flexibility in a recent survey of the 2024 RealLIST Startups conducted by Technical.ly. Remote and hybrid work has helped with hiring and work-life balance, wrote […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has engaged in secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to reporting published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Citing “several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials,” the Journal reported that conversations between Putin and Musk, a Republican megadonor and Pentagon contractor, took […]
Legal tech startup Genie AI has secured a $17.8 million Series A from Google and Khosla Ventures. The startup’s CEO, Rafie Faruq, says its AI editing platform can “turn around a contract in minutes.” Check out the 13-slide pitch deck, shared exclusively with BI, that it used to secure the funding. Thanks for signing up! […]
About a month after a VC firm and a conservative group settled a lawsuit over a grant program for Black women business owners, legal experts urge companies and investors to be aware of the risk. While the settlement avoided setting a legal precedent for targeted grant programs, its impacts are still monumental, lawyers specializing in […]
Ten Years of AI Venture Capital Deals and Exits Globally, AI startups have raised more than $650 billion in venture capital in the last decade. But how has the industry grown and changed over time? For this graphic, we partnered with Fasken to explore the change in AI venture capital deal and exit values, along […]
Following a relatively robust Q2, Baltimore’s venture capital activity in the third quarter of 2024 looked sparse. Companies from the Baltimore metropolitan statistical area raised $53.4 million across nine deals between July and September, according to the latest quarterly Venture Monitor report released by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. It’s an over 80% […]
Credit: Apex Today, Apex announced their Series B funding round, led by XYZ Ventures and CRV, with participation from Upfront. And if you spend much time in LA, you’ll quickly realize that we’re in a groundswell of space and defense startups. Is it because of the rich engineering talent coming out of Caltech, UCLA, USC, […]
Posted on May 21, 2024 by steve blank Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a book that should be on your reading list – The Venture Mindset. The books premise is that Venture Capitalists (who were responsible for the launch […]
This article first appeared in Inc. Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build […]
The Venture Deals course is free and starts on June 20, 2023. This is the fourth time we are running the new version of the course (v2!) that was co-created with Techstars and Kauffman Fellows. If interested, sign up now. I hope to see you in one of the AMAs we will host for anyone who takes the […]