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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-22 08:15:34

A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-07-21 10:27:00

Heavy boiling below the calm surface, occasionally breaking through... Incredible production by Samuel van Dijk aka VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics...
VC-118A — Silver (2021)
soundcloud.com/mohlao/silver

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-15 20:40:53

In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a "VC vs GC" video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/gene

General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z | TechCrunch
Compulsive X user Andreessen himself couldn't resist responding, many, many times.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-20 01:35:36

As companies stay private longer, VC firms, like Spark, Gigafund, and Greenoaks, are investing in companies later on and buying stakes without seeking influence (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/finance/venture-capita

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-20 05:46:10

Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~$90B dealmaking push across 145 companies over the past 16 months (Financial Times)
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-08 12:05:47

Travis Kalanick, Mark Pincus, and other founders share their horror stories of pitching to VCs; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly calls out Vinod Khosla (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/foun

Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names | TechCrunch
A massive viral conversation sharing VC horror stories has taken place this week on X. Some are weird. Some are infuriating.

@keen456@infosec.exchange
2026-05-13 18:49:20

@… Very much your kinda thing here.
oldbytes.space/@flexion/116568

/usr/people/flexion (@flexion@oldbytes.space)
Attached: 1 image Chased and fixed a lot of bugs today! GTA VC on IRIX ❤️

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-10 18:41:02

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/fili

Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat | TechCrunch
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2026-06-19 08:03:48

I have no intention of signing up for W currently, but I might consider it if we can get it to replace LinkedIn.

Either way I am planning to stay here..
#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena mastodon.social/@_elena/116770

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-04 08:42:03

from my link log —
Reverse engineering Prodigy.
vintagecomputing.com/index.php
saved 2021-01-16

VC&G | » Reverse Engineering Prodigy, Part 1
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-20 15:51:01

Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/infe

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers | TechCrunch
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.  

@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-06-06 16:16:22

Veronique Chalot - "A L'Entree Du Temps Clair" (1979)
#NowPlaying #VeroniqueChalot #vinyl

Album cover features a black and white photograph of VC.
@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-04-28 09:05:36

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
awesomeagents.ai/news/github-f

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-27 15:13:01

Eu contando para minha amiga que ontem entrei na Livraria da Travessa e não comprei nenhum livro. O comentšrio dela foi: "POXA, vc resistiu? Tirou 20 no d20." rs

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-18 01:21:22

Filing: Roelof Botha has joined the board of SpaceX as an independent director, seven months after stepping down as Sequoia steward (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/06/17/paypal-

PayPal Mafia member and ex-Sequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board—reuniting with Elon Musk after decades
Roelof Botha, who spent more than two decades at VC firm Sequoia Capital, first worked with Elon Musk at PayPal.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-17 05:20:53

King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others (John Gapper/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/d0a7927d-3072-4

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-16 12:30:40

Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (Éanna Kelly/Sifted)
sifted.eu/articles/munich-robo

Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round
The deal was led by VC firm Hummingbird, with participation from investors Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-08 14:20:53

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-08 03:24:52

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Les Ambassadeurs & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
🎵 Sonata for violin [or fl] and keyboard [vc ad lib] in B flat major, K.15
#LesAmbassadeurs #WolfgangAmadeusMozart

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-10 14:26:53

New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/jedi

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-09 16:01:23

Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
tech.eu/2026/07/09/maritime-de

Maritime defence startup Kraken Technology hits unicorn status
British-founded maritime defence startup Kraken Technology today said it had achieved unicorn status. The startup, founded in 2020 by former speedboat racer Mal Crease, said it had raised $175m in a Series B funding round at a $1bn valuation, according to a press release. The funding round was led by Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP), with support from the British Business Bank, NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Rheinmetall, Inocea group as well as VC firms Hico Ventures, Thesiger Capita…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-06 12:20:57

Magnitt: startup funding in the Middle East and North Africa was flat YoY at $799M in Q1 amid the Iran war; Saudi VC firms are pressing ahead with fundraising (Yassmin Jabri/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-06 05:06:38

Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (Ami Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/business/start

Seed-stage startup funding in Japan sinks 40% as investors grow selective
With TSE tightening listing criteria, VC firms look for safer growth-stage bets

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-05 11:06:12

China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments (Reuters)
reuters.com/legal/government/c

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-02 13:41:00

Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
news.crunchbase.com/venture/gl

Crunchbase Data: Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And...
Investors poured more than $200 billion into startups globally in the just-ended quarter, making Q2 2026 the second-largest quarter on record, our data shows. And, with IPOs and acquisitions returning in force, the second quarter notched one of the strongest periods for venture-backed exits in years.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-01 20:10:42

Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-30 22:15:50

PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-29 06:16:03

EY-Parthenon: VC funding for Singapore startups fell 34% YoY to $4.6B in 2025, with AI startups accounting for 42.8% of the 472 deals, raising $1.4B, up 28% YoY (Katrina Bianca Cuaresma/DealStreetAsia)
dealstreetasia.com/stories/sin

AI investments made up a third of Singapore venture funding in 2025
The rise in AI bets comes amid overall declining deal value in Singapore.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-01 17:01:42

Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/05/01/fun-ser

Exclusive: Startup Fun raises $72 million for the serious business of converting crypto and cash
The crypto investor Multicoin Capital and the tech VC SignalFire led the Series A fundraise.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-01 12:02:04

Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-07-01 10:18:08

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Johannes Moser, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Andrew Manze:
🎵 Andante cantabile, arr. composer for str orch (with vc solo)
#PyotrTchaikovsky #JohannesMoser #OrchestredelaSuisseRomande #AndrewManze

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-30 14:35:49

AI chip startup Etched says it has raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a venture firm linked to TSMC, and has signed sales contracts worth $1B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-29 03:30:44

Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a $40M Series A at a $200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

This AI Startup’s Army Of 15,000 Hackers Pressure Test Claude, GPT-5 And Gemini
Gray Swan works with every major frontier AI lab. Now it’s raised $40 million as it expands to sell security tools to enterprises building AI agents.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-26 21:55:51

How AI-native law firms use "management services organisation" structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/6f8f7acd-8afe-4