In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that “as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders.” It’s the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms.
AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don’t know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.
Bonatsos spent 15 years at GC, and until last year led the firm’s seed investing strategy.
The 25-year-old firm is an early investor in Anduril, Applied Intuition and Runway AI.
Discord reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork and has pinned its hopes on a debut in March.
VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into e-commerce startup Swap Commerce, which is going up against Shopify.
LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months.
Mario Götze will go down in soccer history as the player who scored the winning goal that made Germany the 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. But he is also an increasingly seasoned angel investor.
Insight Partners sued by former vice president Kate Lowry.
AI founders are increasingly using their “dropout” status as a credential during YC pitches.