Black Ops Ventures launches to invest in Blac...

This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry. Also, Benchmark’s new patner Everett Randell, sees Gumloop's enterprise automation as the largest opportunity in AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

The startup, which was created by Rivian founder RJ Scaringe, is looking to train on data from, and deploy in, Rivian's factory. Plus, Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year's end. And, Breakout Ventures is finding growing success by b ...  Show more

64% of venture capital funding this year has gone straight to AI startups, leaving consumer ventures starving for cash. That’s what Bryanna Samuels, a Wall Street-trained VC investor, reveals on Stocks in Translation. Samuels explains how public markets shape private valuations, ...  Show more

Venture capital isn’t a monolith, but startup investors are compared to lemmings for a reason. Once a trend gets hot, every firm needs to make a play, or come up with a good excuse for missing out. (To be safe, if the firm does miss a trend, its partners should privately trash ta ...  Show more

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The World Of Venture Capital and How They Pick Winning Investments In Startups and Early Stage Businesses

Chris Van Dusen - Senior Partner at Slyco Capital

On today’s episode of McKinsey on Startups, we talk to Gautam Nadella, an operating partner at EQT Ventures in the Bay Area, where he drives M&A, fundraising, and partnership efforts within their portfolio of more than 100 companies. EQT invests in a wide range of companies in bo ...  Show more