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 AI?

Subscribe to our newsletter for daily venture stories in your inbox every morning: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/

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: Rob Biederman, managing partner, Asymmetric Capital | Zach Ullman, principal, Lead Edge Capital

The Sam Altman vs. OpenAI saga may finally be over as the former CEO is likely to take his position back this week, three VC firms just announced very large funds, and while the returns for private equity secondaries have been alright, they've been abysmal for VC.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Neil Sequeira, Founder and Partner, defy.vc | Jai Das, President and Partner, Sapphire Ventures

An OECD report suggests that 27% of jobs are at risk to be replaced by AI, Sapphire Ventures commits $1 billion to AI investments, and Microsoft’s $75 billion merger with Activision-Blizzard will not be blocked by U.S. courts.

Featured Guests: Nick Lockett, Co-Founder & CTO, Pear Suite | Michael Cortez, Partner, YL Ventures | Himalaya Rao-Potlapally, Managing Director, BFM Fund

Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement, Massachusetts lawmakers have proposed a total ban of the buying and selling of cell phone location data, and anti-ESG sentiment is on the rise according to HSBC survey.

Featured Guest: Patrick Driscoll, General Partner, Chasing Rainbows

A.I. Robots promise not to rebel against humans, the venture decline may not be coming to an end anytime soon, and notable San-Francisco VC firms are moving offices to a national park near Golden Gate, The Presidio.

Featured Guests: Tinia Pina, CEO & Founder, Re-Nuble | Mat Ellis, CEO & Founder, Sixty AI

Women disproportionately impacted by Big Tech layoffs, ChatGPT experiences its first month of decline in user traffic, and Meta's Threads gets over 30 million downloads on day one.

Featured Guests: Rebecca Lynn, Co-Founder & General Partner, Canvas Ventures | Genè Teare, Senior Data Editor, Crunchbase News

VC investments for women founders are still low a decade later, Crunchbase reports venture funding is down 49% in Q2 since last year, and U.S. District Judge issues a preliminary injunction on Biden’s administration blocking them from content moderation on social media platforms.

Meta announces Threads, Twitter’s new rival, Google’s new privacy policy indicates company will scrape entire public internet to train their AI models, and Apple’s Vision Pro experiencing significant production issues leading to likely headset unit cuts.

Featured Guests: Anthony Pompliano, Entrepeneur and Investor | Colleen Konetzke, Principal, Ironspring Ventures

SEC approval "likely" for spot Bitcoin ETF, U.S. manufacturing production lowest it's been since 2020, and Bridgewater CIO Greg Jensen says ChatGPT is “awful” at picking stocks.

Featured Guests: Michael Cortez, Partner, YL Ventures | Mark Gudiksen, Managing Partner, Piva Capital

New data privacy laws enacted in Colorado & Connecticut, climate tech funding is down 40%, and Elon Musk announces controversial Twitter user limits.

Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino unveils Twitter 2.0. Inflection AI raises $1.3B, the second largest A.I. funding round this year. A Venture Daily roundup of this week’s top stories.

Will AI actually change the world, or is it all just hype? Pitchbook’s somewhat grim outlook report for 2023 venture markets. A proposed U.S. ban on semiconductor microchip exports to China.

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Ansaf Kareem, founding & managing partner, Latitude Capital

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, made headlines everywhere over the weekend when it decided to fire its CEO, Sam Altman. Today, we break down the timeline of events that began on Friday. We’re joined by venture capitalists Bradley Tusk and Ansaf Kareem for valuable insight into the ill-considered decision by OpenAI’s board.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

AI regulation in the U.S. may be around the corner. An online feud between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that could become a pay-per-view Vegas fight night. Private credit expanding to Fortune 500s.

Databricks to acquire generative A.I. startup MosaicML in $1.3B deal, BlackRock’s Larry Fink says he's no longer using the "politicized" term ESG, and Stability A.I.’s third executive turnover in less than three months.

FDIC documents reveal firms such as Sequoia received billions in government bailouts. How the actions of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group affect our markets and investing in Europe. VC-backed startup IRL shuts down after CEO's misconduct probe reveals 95% of users were “automated or from bots.”

Featured Guests: Tony Wang, managing partner, 500 Global | Isabelle Freidheim, founder & managing partner, Athena

Nvidia, the world’s leading chip maker, has just released its fastest ever offering, online fast fashion retailer Shein may be eyeing a public market listing, and president Biden and president Xi Jinping just had their first productive meeting in over a year.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Shahin Farshchi, general partner, Lux Capital | Somesh Dash, general partner, IVP | Ganesh Bell, managing director, Insight Partners

Special 100th episode: One story featuring three guests. Yesterday over 40 VC firms including Lux Capital, IVP, and Insight Partners signed a pledge to establish responsible AI protocol for their portfolio companies. VCs from those firms join the show.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guest: Marcos Fernandez, managing partner, Fiat Ventures and partner, Fiat Growth

California’s new VC diversity law may apply broadly to more than just venture firms, and in more than just California, Nepal joins India and Pakistan in banning Tik Tok, and Venture Daily is now creating short-form video news content.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Follow our Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@venture.daily?_t=8hLjNsCHBYB&_r=1

Featured Guests: Cameron Peake, partner, Restive Ventures | Alex Mason, partner, FTV Capital

2023’s economy has been surprisingly resilient–will the trend continue in 2024? Telehealth physicians are spending more time logging records than they are with patients, and a new AI wearable says it plans to rival the iPhone.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Jon Keidan, founder & managing partner, Torch Capital | Mark Tomasovic, principal, Energize Capital

Once valued at $47 billion dollars, We Work has now filed for bankruptcy, Pitchbook’s Q3 VC valuation report isn’t ideal, but there are some silver linings, and Meta sets forth new rules for the use of AI in political adverts on its platforms.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Brian O’Malley, managing partner, Forerunner Ventures | Jake Heller, co-founder & CEO, Casetext

Amazon is offering all Prime customers a healthcare membership for $9 a month, the scariest thing about AI is its ability to create fake content that is indistinguishable from real content, and the US’s top consumer finance regulator sets its sights on Big Tech oversight.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Ben Stokes, founding partner, Chasing Rainbows | Oliver Libby, managing partner, H/L Ventures

The group that sued Fearless Fund for racial discrimination is now appealing the court’s September ruling, climate representatives from the US and China meet to discuss limiting carbon emissions, and IBM has pledged to invest $500 million into AI startups.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Bob Rosin, partner, defy.vc

Elon Musk, Kamala Harris, and many other world and business leaders met in England for a groundbreaking AI summit, buy now, pay later startup Klarna appears to be angling for an IPO, and OpenAI releases a new product that could change everything.

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.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Richard Dulude, co-founder & general partner, Underscore VC | Ian Rogers, chief experience officer, Ledger

Venture capitalist Richard Dulude shares where he thinks Biden’s new AI executive order goes wrong, will crypto be able to rebuild its brand now that SBF’s trial is over?, and Ivy league endowments are experiencing their worst year of returns this decade.

Subscribe to our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Zoe Weinberg, founder & managing partner, ex/ante | Abigail Risse, analyst, Hyperplane VC

Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial ends in a guilty verdict in all seven counts of fraud, Ex/Ante, a firm with a unique thesis raises a fund backed by Marc Andreessen & Union Square Ventures, and Walgreens can’t catch a break this year as its employees stage a nationwide walk out.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Michael Marks, founder & general partner, Celesta Capital | Brad Bernstein, managing partner, FTV Capital | Philippe Botteri, partner, Accel

Generative AI companies are struggling to find the best pricing model for their expensive generative products, private equity deals are way down, but there’s a silver lining in take private deal value, and Accel releases its Euroscape 2023 report: https://www.accel.com/euroscape

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guest: Sarah Hinkfuss, partner, Bain Capital Ventures

President Biden issues the first ever US federal government guidelines for AI through an executive order, Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the witness stand in the company’s antitrust case, and companies are already following SEC cyber attack disclosure rules months in advance.

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Isabelle Freidheim, founder & chair, Athena Technology | Rudina Seseri, founder & managing partner, Glasswing Ventures

IPOs in the second half of 2023 have failed to inspire a public market resurgence many hoped they would, the UN creates an AI advisory body of members representing countries around the globe, and Google paid over $26 billion to be the default search engine on your iPhone.

Check out our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Dr. Hon Weng Chong, founder & CEO, Cortical Labs | TJ Nahigian, co-founder & managing partner, Base10 Partners | Brian Devaney, principal, Underscore VC

Boston has proven to be the most resilient major venture city amid poor market conditions, the UK’s Prime Minister says he is in no rush to regulate AI, and Google and Microsoft are under increasing scrutiny to turn profits from their AI products.

Check out our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Will Coleman, co-founder & CEO, Alto | Dr. Tom Kelly, co-founder & CEO, Heidi Health

Cruise robotaxis have been suspended in California because of danger to pedestrians, the verbal harassment of healthcare workers has doubled since 2018, and Sam Bankman-Fried intends to take the witness stand, potentially as early as today.

Check out our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Dr. Josh Riedy, founder & CEO, Thread | Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, general partner, Visible Hands

Clean power generation jobs in the US see a 7% increase under the Biden Administration, women without bachelor’s degrees are two-thirds more likely to lose jobs to technology, and 41 states sue Meta alleging harm to young users.

Our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Lily Lyman, general partner, Underscore VC | Rob Biederman, managing partner, Asymmetric Capital | Doug Clinton, co-founder & managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management

Check out our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies could spell disaster for venture capital investments, Anthropic surveys the public to develop its chatbot guardrails, and the CEO of Web Summit resigns after controversial statements about Israel.

Featured Guests: Jeff Wong, global chief innovation officer, Ernst & Young | Jen Neundorfer, co-founder & managing partner, January Ventures

NEWSLETTER: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

The Venture Daily team has joined the Antler founder residency program to begin building a company dedicated to better storytelling in VC and tech, AI experts emphasize the need for US regulation, and insights from the 2023 Early Stage Founder Sentiment Report from January Ventures.

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: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guest: Ansaf Kareem, founder & managing partner, Latitude Capital

A conversation with veteran venture capitalist Ansaf Kareem. We cover the 0 to 1 journey, the common mistakes he sees founders make when pitching investors, and the best wisdom VCs can impart to help founders succeed.

Featured Guests: Jordan Nof, co-founder & managing partner, Tusk Venture Partners | Patrick Driscoll, general partner, Chasing Rainbows

The war in Israel has investors concerned about the impact it will have on the global economy, VC’s in New York have formed an alliance to promote diversity in startups, and Sequoia’s Chinese ties are under more scrutiny from the US government.

Featured Guests: Pete Flint, general partner, NFX | Antonio Avitabile, managing director, Sony Innovation Fund: Africa

Marc Andreessen makes the case against regulating technological progress in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” Sony establishes its newest Innovation Fund in Africa, and Tucker Carlson’s new media company is backed by an ‘anti-woke’ venture firm.

Featured Guests: Tony Kulesa, principal, Pillar VC | Francesco Benedetti, CEO & co-founder, Osmoses

October has already seen five huge M&A deals in biotech, president Biden announces a $7 billion dollar pledge to build ‘hydrogen hubs’ across the US, and LinkedIn initiates another large round of global layoffs.

Featured Guest: Niki Pezeshki, general partner, Felicis Ventures

The $69 billion deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard has finally been approved, 15% of the Israeli tech workforce are being deployed to war, and the CEO of OnlyFans says the company does not plan to IPO.

Featured Guests: Grace Isford, partner, Lux Capital | Michael Daniel, president & CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance

New York City is making its case to be regarded as the world capital of AI, Tik Tok seeks to block Montana’s ban of the app, and HongShan, Sequoia’s former Chinese arm, may be seeking to expand the firm to global markets.

Featured Guests: Jeff Grabow, US venture capital leader, Ernst & Young | Chris Metinko, senior reporter, Crunchbase News

Tech companies creating generative AI tools are trying to turn hype into profits, venture funding in Asia has reached equilibrium in Q3, and Birkenstock sees the worst IPO debut by a unicorn in nearly two years.

Featured Guests: Steve Kraus, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | Sofia Guerra, vice president, Bessemer Venture Partners | Kerry Sette, vice president & head of consumer insights and research, Voya Financial | Noah Shipman, partner, Vistara Growth

Bessemer releases its first annual health tech report revealing funding in the sector is down 65%, how the discussion about mental health in the workplace is changing, and the global economy is growing, although slowly.

Featured Guests: Allison Byers, founder & CEO, Scroobious, and co-chair, All Raise Boston chapter | Priya Saiprasad, co-founder & general partner, Touring Capital | Kfir Kachlon, managing partner at 91 Ventures

Governor Newsom passes the first diversity disclosure bill of its kind for VC firms in California, venture is supporting Israel with financial aid, and food consumption is down due to an appetite-killing drug.

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Joe Merrill, co-founder & partner, Sputnik ATX | Nick Lockett, co-founder & CTO, Pear Suite

After a surprise attack from terrorist group Hamas, Israel has declared war, new constitutions are being formed by AI companies to enhance guardrails for the tech, and a hacker has compromised user data from genetic testing company 23andMe.

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 staff, and will the US’s efforts to build AI infrastructure lead to an “AI Industrial Complex?”

Read our newsletter: https://venture-daily.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Featured Guests: Ben Stokes, founding partner, Chasing Rainbows | Jason Chapman, founder & managing partner, Konvoy | Daniel Khabie, founding partner, Court Avenue

75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have walked out in the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history, a look into the new human jobs that AI will create, and the results of a KPMG survey of U.S. CEOs and their outlooks on AI investment.

Featured Guests: Chris Gardner, general partner, Underscore VC | Carl Gish, co-founder & CEO, Aro Homes

Pitchbook’s Q3 report reveals a 3-year low for deals, BloombergNEF releases the three climate challenges startups will face in the next decade, and Anthropic is rumored to be seeking $2 billion dollars more from investors like Google.