Funds, firms, and the people writing the checks.
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Venture capital is a business before it is an asset class, and this desk covers it that way. We track the firms raising new funds and the LPs writing the commitments, the partners moving between shops or leaving to go solo, and the strategy shifts that show up in a portfolio long before they show up in a press release. Fund size is a thesis statement: a $250 million second fund and a $2 billion platform are playing different games, with different return maths and different pressure on the founders they back. We follow that maths — deployment pace, reserves, ownership targets, the growing role of continuation vehicles and secondaries — and what it means for anyone raising from these firms in the next twelve months.
A cooling sentiment in AI markets has forced OpenAI to adjust its capital expectations while S&P Global shifts Meta's outlook to negative over mounting capex concerns.
Recent regulatory filings from October uncover a fresh wave of capital deployment by elite venture firms, signaling continued bifurcation in the LP market.
Investors have deployed $48 billion into Series B rounds this year, but a steep drop in deal counts exposes an increasingly bifurcated venture landscape.
Broccoli AI has secured $52 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, targeting operational automation in traditional industries.
Anthropic's public S-1 registration reveals an unprecedented financial blueprint marked by $650 billion in compute obligations, setting up a decisive public market test for late-stage venture capital in artificial intelligence.
California-based startups have captured over 75% of all U.S. venture capital in 2026, setting an all-time record as massive AI rounds concentrate wealth in Silicon Valley.
A new partnership between equity platform Carta and direct secondary firm NewView Capital aims to streamline structured tender offers, offering early liquidity to venture-backed startup employees amidst a prolonged IPO pause.
Minneapolis-based Slingshot Insurance has emerged from stealth with a massive seed round to automate the high-volume, low-margin world of checkout-based coverage.
OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a massive funding round led by UAE investors, positioning the AI giant for a 2027 IPO at a staggering trillion-dollar-plus valuation.
Inspired Capital has closed its fourth fund at $450 million, signaling sustained momentum for New York-based venture capital amid ongoing coastal competition.
Silicon Valley's reliance on forward-deployed engineers exposes software-multiple inflation across enterprise AI startups, testing investor tolerance for low-margin services masquerading as recurring revenue.
While multi-stage rivals chase multi-billion-dollar vehicles, Benchmark's partnership reaffirms an equal-split model and capital discipline in San Francisco.
Silverton Partners leads a $10 million Series A in Chariot Claims, backing programmatic consumer arbitration against recurring corporate billing practices.
Wall Street banks and private debt funds are tightening terms on artificial intelligence infrastructure, questioning debt capacity as hyperscaler spending hits economic reality.
As AI boundaries blur, Benchmark partners acknowledge that the traditional Silicon Valley pact against backing direct competitors is becoming impossible to maintain.
Anthropic's recent financial disclosures, indicating profitability and surging revenue, are fueling investor predictions of a multi-trillion-dollar public market valuation, signaling high conviction in the AI sector's long-term potential.
Anthropic's upcoming financial disclosures to investors will offer a crucial glimpse into the unit economics of a leading AI lab, setting benchmarks for the sector's private market valuations and investor sentiment.
Google's monumental $200 billion annual investment in AI infrastructure, as revealed by Alphabet President Ruth Porat, underscores the intensifying capital requirements and competitive landscape for AI innovation, profoundly impacting venture capital strategies and startup valuat
The CEOs of Intel and Broadcom warn that the massive funding requirements for AI hardware and data centers could soon outstrip available venture and corporate capital.
A new cybersecurity startup, Hilt Cielen, has raised a $4.2 million seed round, signaling continued investor appetite for breach prevention solutions, even for ventures led by unconventional founders.
Europe clocked its strongest quarter in four years with $25 billion deployed in Q3, up 77% year over year as venture capital expands beyond London.
Top-tier venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Partners maintained high deal counts in Q3 2026, signaling a shift from headline-grabbing megarounds to consistent deployment.
AI agent developer Manus has raised $500 million in fresh capital, marking its first major funding event since geopolitical pressure forced Meta to unwind its proposed acquisition.
North American startup funding fell to $92 billion in the third quarter, a sharp sequential decline that signals a transition as late-stage investors shift focus from private mega-rounds to anticipated public market debuts.