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TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC series delivered a year‑long circuit of intimate, cocktail‑style events that gathered top venture capitalists, founders, and policymakers across San Francisco, Athens, London, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. The gatherings featured high‑profile speakers such as Kirsten Green, Pat Gelsinger, and Sam Altman, discussing AI‑consumer opportunities, regulatory challenges, fintech IPOs, and crypto asset digitization. By blending candid conversation with exclusive networking, StrictlyVC created a rare platform for unfiltered insight into emerging tech trends. Organizers are now opening a 2026 waitlist, inviting partners to expand the format.
"Peter Thiel fired Elon Musk. Be -- he was kind about it. And he left Elon with all his economics (12% of PayPal). Be kind. He did what he had to do, but he was kind. And then Elon...
How do founders that have never done it before scale to $10m, $100m, $1B in ARR? They hire people better than them This is the mistake most Stretch VPs make. They don’t hire folks better & later more experienced than...
CranioSense, a neurotechnology startup, secured roughly $5.5 million in non‑dilutive federal funding from the NIH Blueprint MedTech Program and the DoD’s Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program. The grants will finance development and pivotal validation of its non‑invasive intracranial pressure monitoring system,...
Meanwhile in M&A, TRUTH SOCIAL (last 12 months $400M losses) is merging with TAE Technologies - a fusion power company - that has raised over $1B betting on a beam-driven field‑reversed configuration (FRC), where high-energy neutral particle beams sustain...
Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton discuss how AI agents now outperform average AEs and SDRs, reshaping GTM team structures. They stress that CROs/CMOs must personally train at least one agent within 30 days, choose one or two vendor...
In this episode, Sarah Chen‑Spellings talks with Ho Ren Hua, CEO of Thai Wah, about transforming a 77‑year‑old family starch business into a regional agri‑food and bio‑materials platform anchored in sustainability. He outlines the “F4” framework (Farm, Factory, Family, Food) and shows how...
When the CFOs speak, I listen - gotta love real talk from the people actually building modern finance stacks. Here's a supercut from a year's worth of insights on Run the Numbers, with special shoutout to Brex . I expect...
Recurring revenue is king. Live on @acquiredotcom: Shopify subscription app helping merchants turn one-time buyers into predictable monthly revenue. > $29K ARR > $32K TTM revenue > $30K TTM profit > 190 paying merchants Full listing: https://t.co/zCumfIm8mD https://t.co/wYOQ3FwbAz
The episode breaks down three major trends: AI infrastructure spending is already 1.6% of U.S. GDP and could near 3% by 2030, dwarfing past tech booms but still far from wartime mobilisations; female‑founder funding in Europe is rising in absolute...
Trump Media to Merge With Fusion Energy Firm in $6 Billion Deal. Technologies that cannot make it on their own partner with a Trump entity? Happened in critical minerals (MP materials / Vulcan), in batteries (50% in Mitra Chem for...
After processing 1B+ pages for global banks, top private equity firms, Fortune 50s, and large insurers, @Pulse__AI is opening its document intelligence platform to everyone. Production-grade parsing is now publicly available via the platform and API. 20K free pages for all. Congrats...
ICYMI: Re-sharing Dan Gray's badass survey on the state of fundraising👇. He puts data behind how the current fundraising low wasn't just a "hard year" for smaller funds, but a structural shift in LPs changing behavior. Key takeaways from 48...
2026 might feel far away but exits don’t happen overnight. Most founders who sell in 2026 start preparing now. Not because they’re desperate but because they want options. You don’t need to rush and you don’t need to sell tomorrow. Just build...
World models will be as important as LLM's. Next big market and General Intuition has the best data set for this...
Italian startup Limenet announced a €7 million financing round led by CDP Venture Capital and construction group Fassa Bortolo. The capital will be used to cement the company’s market leadership and speed up development of its carbon‑dioxide removal technologies. Limenet, headquartered...
Capital is not a bludgeon The best product is the bludgeon
He sold SwiftNet in 30 days on @acquiredotcom. After months of calls that went nowhere, Nikita Danilov finally met the right buyer. His secret? > Patience in finding the right buyer > Speed once aligned Don’t rush the process. But when it’s time, move...
Ferronova, an Adelaide‑based medical‑technology firm, closed a $6 million financing round, bringing its total capital to $17.5 million. The round was led by Uniseed/UniSuper, South Australian Venture Capital Fund, Artesian Venture Partners, and Renew Pharmaceuticals. The cash will fund expansion of its...
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A key aspect of marketing a B2C software company is helping prospective buyers/investors evaluate the asset on its own merits instead of against the backdrop of B2B software. Unfortunately, B2C software businesses usually don't receive the same caliber of treatment...
In this episode, Stefan Roebel, co‑founder and CEO of ARX Robotics, discusses how his company evolved from makeshift decoy robots to NATO‑backed modular systems now operating in Ukraine, illustrating the need for Europe to overhaul its slow defence procurement and...
Immad Akhund @immad - CEO / co-founder of Mercury is live answering startup questions now. Ask yours in the comments here: https://t.co/EkZAmrfjOS
One CEO I have insane respect for is Daniel Dines, CEO of UiPath. After the better part of two decades — and it taking 10 years to get the first $1m ARR (!) — he stepped down as CEO, a billionaire,...
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I am going live in 10 minutes to kick off our 24 hour startup advice hotline. We have some amazing mentors joining us to help founders navigate sticky situations. Join here: https://lnkd.in/g2parB8i
Founders often wait for consensus when they should be waiting for evidence. Agreement feels safer, but it does not reduce risk. Evidence does. Risk shrinks fastest when opinions are forced to meet the real world.
Hey Chris, We’re actively syndicating secondary SPVs in Polymarket, xAI, SpaceX, Anduril, and Kraken alongside a broader basket of late-stage names. Flagging in case you’re spending time on late-stage, high-growth, pre-IPO opportunities. Happy to connect later this week or next to share...
What do growth equity and the NYC Marathon have in common? JMI Equity 's own Larry Contrella proves it takes the same innate drive and competitive streak to succeed at either. Tune in to tomorrow's Run the Numbers to learn...
Growth hides inefficiency the way adrenaline hides pain. It feels good while it lasts. When growth slows, everything surfaces at once. Teams that fix fundamentals early experience fewer emergencies later.
for folks thinking about a new thing in 2026: we want to find you a job at a startup -- we’ve invested in >250 companies so far via a16z speedrun. I’ve spent time with all of the founders: I’m betting (literally)...
There’s soooo much inefficiency in private company cap tables. Sometimes it’s a feature but for most stakeholders it’s not.
Shipping answers the question “what changed.” Narrative answers “why this matters.” Without the second, the first just feels like noise.
On the 24 hour startup advice hotline, our first guest will be @TaraViswanathan who sold her company Rupa Health for a ton of $$$ & is starting a new co to help America build. What should I ask her? (Join...
Inside the VC Roll-up Craze That Has Taken Silicon Valley by Storm https://t.co/isY66sgWKh
SaaS for churches is wildly underrated. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI platform that turns a Sunday sermon into a full week of social posts, clips, emails, and discussion prompts. $275K TTM revenue $120K TTM profit 375% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/uXWpOoEZLT https://t.co/6dtcnsYY9i
Trata (@trytrata) curates anonymous hedge fund debates into the fastest-growing library of investment research. They work with 125+ contributing funds globally that manage >$175 billion in AUM. Trata facilitates calls between funds and uses voice agents trained on these conversations to...
Congrats to @triggerdotdev on their $16M Series A! Prototyping AI is easy, but building production-grade agents is hard. https://t.co/EAT6n7xgeL handles reliability, scaling, orchestration, and observability—already powering hundreds of millions of agent executions per month for 30K+ developers. https://t.co/PgyXjqSzwR
Speed emerges when decisions have owners. It disappears when decisions have committees. Team size and sign-off count quietly define your execution ceiling.
Not an investor but I think Waymo will be a successful IPO if and when it does It quietly has the most robotaxis of any company around the world https://t.co/CzXsOB6viz
There's never going to be a perfect time to build a startup. Please stop waiting and start building.
American capitalists that care about value creation vs. UK chairmans who care about their career? Becoming knighted? The governance is f***** up on UK PLCs. If they do not bring @TSMonzo back they will lose the $5BN he gained for them.
Despite open-source AI models being 10-100x cheaper, proprietary providers haven’t lost pricing power. OpenRouter’s data reveals a market splitting in two. Over the last year, open-source models’ market share has remained stable around 22-25%, briefly spiking to 35% during the explosive...
We see this kind of thing from time to time before seed/VC funding — but it should never happen after fund raising Which is why governance is so critical for startups — you can avoid 100% of these self inflicted...
Emerging fund VCs are much more akin to startups than to other VCs. Both have to figure out go-to-market and how to bring money in the door.
I'd like to add someone to help me with @saastrfund This is primarily an in-bound venture role, and a chance to learn If you know what the best looks like at $10k MRR in B2B+AI, email me
Joining the Hustle Fund crew’s 24 hour livestream (only for an hour, thank god). Here’s the schedule. Join me. :) https://t.co/hflDlAnt4y https://t.co/XBGEIpb78R
1000%. From my partner @Farshchi Lux funds the frontier but some people are funding really stupid shit including Quantum and Photonic compute (photonic interconnect and data relay makes good sense, not compute) nor data centers in space for terrestrial use
Founders who are not focused on building distribution: https://t.co/XypSD04aLJ
I think you can build a large tech startup from literally anywhere in the world. At the same time, I still think it is valuable to spend at least a few months in San Francisco to build network.
