Coverage Timeline
newest first- Oct 15, 2026Indian VC Firms Follow Founders Into Silicon Valley→
- Oct 14, 2026Marklo Raises $5M As Stella & Dot's Founder Returns$5M Seed→
- Oct 14, 2026Pear VC Closes $333M Fund V, Tops $1.1B AUM$333M Fund V→
- Oct 12, 2026Peter Lee Leaves Microsoft Science For Mercedes F1→
- Oct 8, 2026Union Square Ventures Raises $900M, Cuts To Four Partners$900M Across Two Funds→
- Oct 6, 2026Khosla Picks Wajo To Win The AI Agent Trust War→
- Oct 5, 2026Niobrara Raises $1.5B+ Across Debut Fund, Pompeo On Bench$1.5B+ fund→
- Oct 5, 2026Menlo Backs Factory Right After Its Khosla Blowup$5B valuation round→
- Oct 5, 2026New VC Funds Keep Launching Despite Megaround Era→
- Oct 1, 2026YC Adds Two New General Partners→
- Sep 28, 2026Meta Taps MongoDB's CEO To Lead Enterprise AI Push→
- Sep 25, 2026Figma Exec Joins AI Inference Startup Baseten→
- Sep 24, 2026OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Plan Their Own AI Regulator→
- Sep 23, 2026Bessemer Raises $5.75B Across Two New AI Funds$5.75B, two funds→
- Sep 22, 2026Chris Paul Joins Owl Ventures As Venture Partner→
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Indian VC Firms Follow Founders Into Silicon Valley
Indian venture firms are opening Bay Area offices and chasing AI-focused founders, with Indian VCs making more than 100 US investments over the past two years.
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Marklo Raises $5M As Stella & Dot's Founder Returns
PEOPLE$5M Seed
Marklo Raises $5M As Stella & Dot's Founder Returns
Stella & Dot founder Jessica Herrin raised a $5 million seed round led by Forerunner Ventures for Marklo, an AI tool that plans marketing campaigns for consumer brands.
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Pear VC Closes $333M Fund V, Tops $1.1B AUM
PEOPLE$333M Fund V
Pear VC Closes $333M Fund V, Tops $1.1B AUM
Pear VC closed its $333 million Fund V, pushing total assets under management past $1.1 billion as the pre-seed and seed investor promotes three internal partners to general partner.
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Peter Lee Leaves Microsoft Science For Mercedes F1
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Peter Lee Leaves Microsoft Science For Mercedes F1
Microsoft's outgoing science president Peter Lee, who helped evaluate GPT-4 before its public release, is negotiating a newly created AI advisor role with the Mercedes Formula 1 team.
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Union Square Ventures Raises $900M, Cuts To Four Partners
PEOPLE$900M Across Two Funds
Union Square Ventures Raises $900M, Cuts To Four Partners
Union Square Ventures raised $900 million across a new early-stage fund and opportunity fund while reducing its active general partnership to four people.
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Khosla Picks Wajo To Win The AI Agent Trust War
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Khosla Picks Wajo To Win The AI Agent Trust War
Vinod Khosla is publicly betting on Wajo, a trust-focused AI agent from ex-Google/DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar that's already drawn angel backing from Jeff Dean and Gokul Rajaram.
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Niobrara Raises $1.5B+ Across Debut Fund, Pompeo On Bench
PEOPLE$1.5B+ fund
Niobrara Raises $1.5B+ Across Debut Fund, Pompeo On Bench
New York's Niobrara Capital Partners closed its debut Founders Fund and parallel funds with more than $1.1 billion, about 50% above target, plus co-investment vehicles pushing total commitments above $1.5 billion, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a partner.
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Menlo Backs Factory Right After Its Khosla Blowup
PEOPLE$5B valuation round
Menlo Backs Factory Right After Its Khosla Blowup
Days after a public dispute between Factory's CEO and Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures joined Factory's round at a $5 billion valuation -- a pointed show of confidence in a company whose own backer just called it second-tier.
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New VC Funds Keep Launching Despite Megaround Era
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New VC Funds Keep Launching Despite Megaround Era
Even as nine-figure AI rounds dominate headlines, new VC funds keep closing: a16z crypto raised $2.2 billion, Khwarizmi Ventures closed Fund II above $70 million, and fresh funds are launching weekly.
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YC Adds Two New General Partners
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YC Adds Two New General Partners
Y Combinator named Juni Learning and Acely co-founder Vivian Midha Shen and Cron founder Raphael Schaad as General Partners, elevating both from Visiting Partner after two batches working with YC's startups.
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Meta Taps MongoDB's CEO To Lead Enterprise AI Push
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Meta Taps MongoDB's CEO To Lead Enterprise AI Push
Meta has hired MongoDB's chief executive to lead a newly created enterprise AI division, a notable outside hire as Meta tries to sell AI tools to businesses rather than just consumers.
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Figma Exec Joins AI Inference Startup Baseten
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Figma Exec Joins AI Inference Startup Baseten
A senior Figma executive is joining AI inference startup Baseten, another sign that operating talent is flowing from the application layer toward the AI infrastructure layer.
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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Plan Their Own AI Regulator
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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Plan Their Own AI Regulator
OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are coordinating on a voluntary, FINRA-style safety body for frontier AI models and have approached a former White House AI adviser to run it.
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Bessemer Raises $5.75B Across Two New AI Funds
PEOPLE$5.75B, two funds
Bessemer Raises $5.75B Across Two New AI Funds
Bessemer Venture Partners closed $5.75 billion across two new funds -- $1.75 billion for seed and early stage, $4 billion for growth -- to back AI-native founders from first check through late-stage rounds.
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Chris Paul Joins Owl Ventures As Venture Partner
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Chris Paul Joins Owl Ventures As Venture Partner
NBA veteran Chris Paul joined Owl Ventures, the $2.2 billion EdTech-focused venture firm, as a Venture Partner, a formal operating role that extends the athlete-to-VC pattern into a more structured institutional commitment.
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