Noor Siddiqui Contributor Noor Siddiqui, a Thiel Fellow and Stanford-trained computer scientist, is the CEO and founder of Orchid. Moonshot startups, those daring ideas that promise to reshape our world, are inherently about venturing into uncharted territory, giving us new superpowers and creating new markets. They’re high stakes, high reward, and, more often than not, … Read more
Artificial intelligence startups had a wild ride in 2023. Everyone and their grandmother tried out some sort of AI tool, startups in the space raised rounds at 2021 valuations, there were high-profile shutdowns, and then to close out the year, we had all the drama surrounding Sam Altman and OpenAI — plus New York Times’ lawsuit … Read more
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Dang, we’re getting close to the new year! And that means it’s time to brush the dust off of an Equity tradition that stretches back many years: our predictions episode! As we … Read more
Casber Wang is a partner at Sapphire Ventures, where he focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data and analytics. In cybersecurity, AI often stands for “already implemented.” Security vendors have used AI-based technologies to use existing knowledge databases and address talent gaps. As an investor who focuses on backing expansion stage B2B enterprise startups … Read more
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. To close out the year, I wanted to sit down with a venture capitalist and riff on the coming year. On today’s episode, we’re joined by … Read more
It was pure coincidence, but months before the pandemic took hold around the world, IndieBio — a startup accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve large problems — expanded its remit, adding a New York arm to the operations it was already running out of San Francisco. Of course, it’s because of what the … Read more
High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3 to 5 times invested capital. Several leading India investors including Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Lightspeed, Nexus and Accel have raised $500 million-plus in the past two years, … Read more
Alex Menn is a partner at Begin Capital, a $62M London-based venture capital fund backing founders from low maturity markets. Alex has 12+ years of experience in private equities. As you might know by now, venture capital is an industry with a high failure rate. Standard & Poor’s recently reported that bankruptcies by venture capital … Read more
“Chief Meme Officer” was once Turner Novak’s tongue-in-cheek job title, and his 161,300 X followers probably know why. Yet, he has it clear: “If you think about raising a venture fund and you need to raise $50 million, somebody’s not going to say: ‘Wow, that’s a great meme, here’s $10 million.” Why all the memes, … Read more
As a general rule, any essay that includes the one-sentence paragraph “I am here to bring the good news” is written by someone who wants to take your money, your vote, or your soul. As far as I know, Marc Andreessen, the browser pioneer and cofounder of powerhouse VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, isn’t running for … Read more