Venture Daily

Featured Guests: Richard Dulude, co-founder & general partner, Underscore VC | Derek Xiao, investor, Menlo Ventures Disney invests $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, Apple’s Vision Pro, its first new product in nearly a decade, is hated by social media comment sections but loved by tech reviewers, and will China and the US find a way to cooperate regarding

Featured Guests: Joey Mak, CEO, Chicago:Blend | Parker McKee, principal, Pillar VC The CEOs of Meta, Tik Tok, and X face the music during a spirited US Senate hearing, Chicago emerges as one of the most diverse venture markets, and vertical AI applications may be the hottest investment of 2024. Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Allison Byers, founder & CEO, Scroobious | Paul Le Floch, co-founder & CEO, Axoft | Amy Wu, partner, Menlo Ventures The techno-optimist movement is building momentum (and political influence), Elon Musk announces that Neuralink has performed its first successful human surgery, and venture capitalists are sitting on over $300 billion dollars of dry powder. R

Featured Guests: Sam Smith-Eppsteiner, partner, Innovation Endeavors | Will Robbins, general partner, Contrary The FTC has antitrust concerns about Big Tech again, this time due to their partnerships with AI startups, Innovation Endeavors Raises a whopping $630 million dollar fund, and TechCrunch joins the growing list of news companies laying off employees. Read our newsletter: ht

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem, founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital | Doug Clinton, co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management. New Hampshire residents receive a deepfaked phone call impersonating president Biden right before the primary vote Tuesday, Silicon Valley darling Brex cuts 20% of its

Featured Guests: Larsen Jensen, founder & general partner, Harpoon Ventures | Andy Harrison, CEO & general partner, Section 32 | Kenny Tomlin, co-founder, Court Avenue Harpoon Ventures, a firm led by a former Olympian and Navy Seal, raises $125 million, the SEC is skeptical of the use and supervision of AI by investment advisers, and an expert marketer joins the show to pre

Featured Guests: Oliver Libby, co-founder & managing partner, H/L Ventures | Doug Clinton, co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Vardan Gattani, principal, 645 Ventures | Gené Teare, senior data editor, Crunchbase News Elon Musk’s newest company xAI is looking to raise $1 billion dollars, Meta and IBM launch an AI Alliance promoting the use of open-

Featured Guests: Michael Cortez, partner, YL Ventures | Chase Roberts, principal, Vertex Ventures Half of all 23andMe accounts, nearly 7 million, were affected by a hack back in October, venture investments are growing rapidly in middle America, and Boston venture firm OpenView may be shutting down as reports of large layoffs spread. Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehi

Featured Guests: Shalin Mehta, general partner, SEVA | Kevin Hickey, VP of Architecture, Benefitfocus, a Voya Company Spotify announces another round of mass layoffs, this time resulting in 1500 job cuts, SEVA, a firm with a unique investment strategy, convincingly exceeds its fundraising goal, and Congress continues considering AI regulation as the tech expands in hospitals. Read

Featured Guest: Jill Chase, partner, CapitalG A deeper dive into the story of AI and how it is revolutionizing tech and the venture landscape, and how growth stage is investing into artificial intelligence. Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe