Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks’ record-breaking $10 billion fund raising,…

Stephen Curry’s Penny Jar Capital files to raise a Fund II

Penny Jar Capital, the early-stage firm founded by Bryant Barr and Richard Scudellari and where basketball…

Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest

Fusion power startup Focused Energy has signed a deal to buy two of the world’s most…

Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners merges with investment arm of Pendulum Holdings

Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holdings’…

Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models

Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $5.5…

UnitedHealth’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet

Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a…

G2 Ventures Partners is raising $750 million for a third fund

G2 Venture Partners, the high-profile firm that spun out of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is…

Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees asked social media influencers…