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Vancouver‑based women's intimate‑apparel brand Huha Wear announced a $20 million financing round led by District Ventures Capital, with participation from Export Development Canada. The capital will be deployed to accelerate product innovation and expand the company's market reach. Founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Alexa Suter, Huha Wear has positioned itself as a niche player in the fast‑growing women's undergarments segment. The funding underscores investor confidence in the brand’s growth trajectory and its potential to capture a larger share of the North American intimate apparel market.
As I mentioned, we had to do our LP meeting in London because many firms' travel policies have not been updated to show how safe Tel Aviv is and we always want to see our partners in person. We appreciate...
Everyone in AI feels the same tension right now, but this piece finally names it clearly. The tech is real. The progress is real. The spending is real. The business models aren’t. Not yet. This is the best breakdown I’ve...
Epoch AI researchers discuss a data‑driven timeline for superintelligence, arguing that Anthropic could build the first gigawatt‑scale AI datacenter and that breakthroughs like solving the Riemann hypothesis may arrive within five years. They challenge the notion of "energy bottlenecks," framing...
In this episode, Brynn Putnam discusses how her personal frustration with screen‑driven family disconnection inspired Board, a face‑to‑face gaming console designed to reunite families, and reflects on her previous ventures like Mirror that also emerged from personal needs. She emphasizes...
Francisco Partners announced this week they're taking JAMF private for $2.2 billion at $13.05 per share. The headlines trumpet a "50% premium" to recent trading prices. The press releases talk about "strategic flexibility" and "accelerating growth." But here's what the...
Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44, argues that AI‑driven "vibe coding" platforms will disrupt traditional SaaS and CRM tools like Salesforce by offering faster, low‑code development with superior user experience. He challenges the notion that these platforms lack defensibility or margins,...
Aileen Lee 's in conversation with Reid Hoffman , Stacy Brown-Philpot , & Van Jones sharing prescient thoughts on how this AI revolution has lowered the bar for founder entry and career re-imagination. #MastersofScale
This is the future of music right here. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI music creation SaaS that turns vocals and text into full songs with voice. > 3M+ users > $621K ARR > $559K TTM profit > 80% margins Bootstrapped and profitable. Full listing: https://t.co/Obvm9zKtc6 https://t.co/W1RRxUq9Oj
The episode opens with a deep dive into the fallout from the Epstein files, focusing on the lingering questions about the source of his wealth. It then shifts to market dynamics, highlighting Tether's rapid growth, Michael Burry's contentious bet versus...
This is a slide I showed last year as well. These are investable themes. /2 https://t.co/Ahu2RPdjuo
I know ‘memory’ is a big deal in AI — what I don’t know is how >much< of it you really need to have a great AI experience. The more I learn about how our own AI Agents work, the...
In this Hot Mic episode, three listeners pose their top questions to seasoned venture capitalists, who discuss whether starting a venture fund is advisable, the key criteria they use to evaluate pitches, and the one startup they wish they'd invested...
Every year, at our annual meeting with our LPs, I do a State of the Union. It is pretty wide ranging. It covers Geopolitics, VC, Investment Themes, Opportunities, State of Aleph and more. For years I have debated whether to share...
What does it mean to be an unconflicted investment bank? Unconflicted means that a bank doesn't take revenue from anyone who could be a potential buyer, or who doesn't trade favors with someone who could be a potential buyer. Conflicts...
Venture capital is being reshaped by the rapid adoption of AI and Web3, forcing firms to accelerate due‑diligence and decision‑making. New metrics such as AI model stress performance, tokenomics, code audits and on‑chain transparency now sit alongside traditional revenue and...
That new VC partner on your board? They might have say 5% carry in the fund Let's say you sell for an incredible $500,000,000 after 10 years. WOW! And the fund owns 15% The new partner then makes ... $750,000 $500m x 15% x...
Bluma (@getBluma) is building the Canva for short-form video ads. They automate your entire consumer marketing strategy with content templates, generating on-brand videos on autopilot. https://t.co/Jeoc521iea
Yaniv Bertele, a physicist‑mathematician turned investor, applies scientific methodology to venture‑capital and corporate investment decisions. His framework starts with rigorous problem identification, then validates solution viability, financial feasibility, market size, and go‑to‑market strategy before committing capital. The approach has been...
🔥 AI startups are burning cash faster than you think. You see Series A AI companies burning $500K/month on GPUs while showing zero profit margins. More users = more GPU usage = bigger losses. But the survivors won't have the...
Supercool SaaS listing JUST dropped on @acquiredotcom. No-code app for launching secure AI-driven web apps fast. > $300K TTM revenue > $100K TTM profit > 50% YoY growth High-margin, vertical SaaS with real enterprise upside. Listing: https://t.co/BATq3sxB2V https://t.co/BMo7n13wQQ
Max Altman discusses the intensifying "seed war" where only giants like Sequoia and a16z can dominate early rounds, highlighting how many founders leave billions on the table by undervaluing deals such as Reddit's. He shares behind‑the‑scenes stories from backing Rippling...
We’re reading the fine print on those $NVDA/@OpenAI “deals”… and they’re not EXACTLY deals. It turns out, at least according to Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, either company can essentially walk away at any time, and it’s more of an aspirational...
The intersection of “seems like a bad idea” and “is actually a good idea” is the sweet spot for startups. "If a good idea were obviously good, someone else would already have done it. So the most successful founders tend to...
MARKLE, IN, Sortera Technologies today announced the close of $45 million in funding.
The AI market today is bacon in a hot skillet. Everything is sizzling, moving, & changing at an incredible pace. We’re all watching it closely. Market share is fluid because no one yet knows what AI can do & the...
Palo Alto‑based Hippocratic AI, which builds generative AI agents for the healthcare sector, announced a major expansion of its executive team, adding seasoned veterans to oversee product, engineering, and commercial functions. The hires come shortly after the company closed a...
B2BINPAY has secured a Digital Asset Service Provider (PSAD) licence from El Salvador’s National Commission of Digital Assets (CNAD), authorising the firm to conduct regulated digital‑asset transfers, custody, and fiat‑crypto exchange operations under the country’s Digital Assets Issuance Law. This...
This is my single biggest disagreement with YC. Starting a startup to get famous, or to do better than those around you, or for vanity, or yes even just to get rich, is worse for society and worse for founders. It's...
In Founder University, we help Year Zero founders build MVPs, raise money, and find their first customers. After launching our first international Founder University in Saudi, we are heading to Japan for our second. We kick off in January with...
Shernaz Daver, the first chief marketing officer of Khosla Ventures (KV), is leaving after nearly five years, having built the firm’s brand around the mantra “bold, early, impactful” and positioning KV as the first investor in marquee AI and tech...
We had our Precursor Ventures AGM this week in SF, so Mia and I were able to record in person! The first topic we covered was founder update emails, specifically how valuable they are for both founders and investors, especially...
🔹Boutique, dedicated Seed funds continue to lead <60% of priced seed rounds in the sub-$10M range, which account for the gross majority of deals done. 🔹~90% of priced Seed rounds happen below $20M - where dedicated funds maintain a clear advantage. 🔹Nearly...
🔹The majority of Series A activity now clusters around $20M, but this isn’t where the power dynamics are shaping the market. 🔹At sub-$20M, dedicated A funds lead most rounds, and mega-fund involvement stays below half. 🔹Once rounds cross $20M, the megas come...
In Aug, I wrote “Is Venture Broken?” – a data-driven look at whether the growing spread in fund sizes at the early stage was pushing venture to a breaking point. We found that while mega-funds are moving earlier, dedicated-stage, boutique...
Whether the code is being written by a human, a computer, or a hybrid, the moment of truth is Graphite
Two revelations this week have shaken the narrative in AI : Nvidia’s earnings & this tweet about Gemini. The AI industry spent 2025 convinced that pre-training scaling laws had hit a wall . Models weren’t improving just from adding more...
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"Homebrew → Forever -- why Hunter and Satya moved from an LP-backed seed fund to a self-funded evergreen model—and why they accelerated the shift in 2022." So fortunate to back founders who build companies via Homebrew and founders who build...
Why $30BN for Cursor Is A Good Deal: "The pro side is revenue and revenue growth rate. If something's gone from $1-$100M in a year, and then $100M to $1BN this year, with Newton's laws of motion, it is going to $3BN-$4BN...
YC is funny because for everything we get hate for, we fund those and fund of that kind by #'s than anyone else Solos Non-traditional background Anything not B2B SaaS Almost any category, we do the most # of anyone, and the ones we...
Top 10 Most Active Investors at Series A: Out of the 90 mega-funds we looked at, @a16z, @generalcatalyst, @lightspeedvp & @sequoia all remain in the top 5 across both Seed and A - with a16z far outrunning the pack at...
Top 10 Most Active Investors at Seed: https://t.co/2pB2bbv0yP
🧵Is the venture market “healthy”? “The highest order way I think about it is: ‘Is there opportunity?’ Is there opportunity for high impact, high growth, high scale businesses being born right now? And the answer to that is unequivocally yes.” @kirstenagreen,...
Great to be on the Library of Minds with @daraladje. 13 yrs into Forerunner, experience is an edge. But open-mindedness is equally critical. This era is about the courage of imagination. Eyes wide open and genuine bravery are needed when...
A spicy thought experiment: What would OpenAI have to do to hit $500 billion in annual revenue within the next five years? https://t.co/jxxTIIIqgC https://t.co/blAVz6cHUP
1/ New Lux LP letter...
Here’s why I say we’re going to see a “major M&A moment” in the next six months. There’s a business-friendly administration in the White House. (Everyone knows the President LOVES DEALS… he wrote a book about it.) $GOOG got off...
Congrats to @automat_ai on their $15.5M Series A! They're building AI agents that operate computers like people do. Instead of fragile RPA workflows, operators show Automat what to automate, and their forward-deployed team handles the rest. Already replacing legacy RPA...
