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#152 VC Across America (LA, SF, NY, DC)
Q2 marches on! Appreciate the new format feedback as we power through busy season! We’ve aggregated some of the best VC GP / CFO reads we’ve seen recently - enjoy!
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“We design our lives through the power of choices.” -Richard Bach
Top Reads of Recent History, VC CFO Style
Top CFO Takes for VCs/LPs From LA, SF, NY, DC
AI, Innovation, & Technology
Financial Markets
Health & Medical Research
Human Capital, Jobs, & Education
Policy, Politics, & Regulation
Security & Risk
Sustainability & Environment
Partners from Bessemer, a16z, and Index are (allegedly) teaming up on a new fund
Kurzweil was one of the first investors at Bessemer; today it has close to 400
Shen joined a16z when it had <400 employees; today it has close to 700
Goldberg was one of the first at Index; today it has close north of 100 employees.
Digital Health (Flatiron Health, Ro, Sword Health, Noom, K Health, Spring)
AI/Data (MongoDB, Databricks, Cockroach Labs, Hugging Face, RunwayML, Together AI, Modal)
Fintech (Flex, Bilt, Vise, Ramp, Pinwheel, SmartAsset, Betterment, Alloy)
eCommerce (Misfit Market, Farmer’s Dog, Goody, Eight Sleep, Glossier, Zola)
AdTech (Attentive, Braze, Taboola)
Bridging National Security and Frontier Technologies, The Hill and Valley Forum (full video linked) is a private bipartisan community of lawmakers and innovators committed to harnessing the power of technology to address America's most pressing national security challenges.
Christian Garrett, 137 Ventures
One of the exciting things is that you didn’t just see aerospace and defense companies like Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, ScaleAI and more in DC all week discussing policy and technology, but you had Gusto championing Section 174 and R&D tax credits, Seso working to solve problems for farmers and migrant workers, and you even had leading venture investors discussing legislation to help lower income Americans participate in the American dream in new ways.
Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund
Our third Hill & Valley was our strongest yet, Jacob Helberg, the leader of the event, crushed the daytime agenda. We look forward to continuing to improve the scale and quality of this gathering of technology leaders and policymakers which we believe puts the United States on the best footing to stay ahead of our adversaries.
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