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Cap VC is launching a tool for VC firms, and is planning to expand its offering to startups raising money. The idea is to make better investment decisions, faster, using the power of AI. VC is a people-business above all, but as AIs are getting closer and closer to being people, too, there’s a slew of new tools making their way to the market. Some of them (such as Connetic Ventures’ tools) are developed in-house and kept as proprietary tools giving VCs an edge, while others (DeckMatch and Headline) are spun out of VC…

Noor Siddiqui Contributor Noor Siddiqui, a Thiel Fellow and Stanford-trained computer scientist, is the CEO and founder of Orchid. Moonshot startups, those daring ideas that promise to reshape our world, are inherently about venturing into uncharted territory, giving us new superpowers and creating new markets. They’re high stakes, high reward, and, more often than not, deeply technical. As someone who navigates these waters, I see firsthand that when…

Indian cybersecurity startups in the last two years amassed fund inflows of about $130.7 million, nearly a 63% jump from two years prior, according to data collected by Tracxn. With a boom in technological enhancements incorporated across multiple sectors in India and worldwide, data and security breaches continue to be a cause of concern for companies and individuals which has encouraged investors to invest more proactively.  VC firm Accel is…

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Artificial intelligence startups had a wild ride in 2023. Everyone and their grandmother tried out some sort of AI tool, startups in the space raised rounds at 2021 valuations, there were high-profile shutdowns, and then to close out the year, we had all the drama surrounding Sam Altman and OpenAI — plus New York Times’ lawsuit against the company. With so much in the rearview mirror, it’s hard to predict what will happen with AI startups in 2024. But some people, like investors, make their…

It’s been a rough few years for startups looking to exit, but companies, especially late-stage startups, can’t stay private forever. When the exit market didn’t open back up in 2023, as many hoped after a very quiet 2022, investors and founders alike decided that 2024 was the year that the exit market would defrost. Now that 2024 is here, do they still think that? TechCrunch+ recently surveyed more than 40 investors to get their predictions on a variety of topics heading into 2024, including…

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Dang, we’re getting close to the new year! And that means it’s time to brush the dust off of an Equity tradition that stretches back many years: our predictions episode! As we try to every year, we brought in a number of voices to ensure that we covered enough ground. We also went back and vetted our predictions from last year, in case you wanted to see how on the mark or off it…

Casber Wang is a partner at Sapphire Ventures, where he focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data and analytics. In cybersecurity, AI often stands for “already implemented.” Security vendors have used AI-based technologies to use existing knowledge databases and address talent gaps. As an investor who focuses on backing expansion stage B2B enterprise startups in cybersecurity, AI, and DevOps, with recent investments in cybersecurity company Huntress and…

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. To close out the year, I wanted to sit down with a venture capitalist and riff on the coming year. On today’s episode, we’re joined by Deepka Rana from Northzone to chat through a bevy of key topics for the new year: Where venture capital is heading in the new year; The prognosis for startups at different stages of maturity; Why 2023…

It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve large problems — expanded its remit, adding a New York arm to the operations it was already running out of San Francisco. Of course, it’s because of what the world endured that more attention than ever is being paid to life sciences startups, which is why we thought readers might want a sneak peek at the newest batch of startups that IndieBio NY is preparing…