🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Here's Y Combinator 's playbook for hard tech companies based on this awesome conversation (highly recommend watching) Here's the TL;DR: -Start Small to Demonstrate Feasibility and Gain Traction -Secure Early Commercial Validation -Focus on Solving a Significant Problem -Think

The Power of a Clear Why in Business Success - Listen to the entire episode on your favorite podcast player here: buff.ly/3t41MI9 #Startups #VentureCapital #Investing Matt Caspari Alumni Ventures

The highest leverage thing for a startup founder to do after they raise their first round of funding: Sending a consistent investor update every month As someone that has now sent 100+ investor updates in my life, here are some tips on making them a valuable asset:

I have invested in over 250 pre-seed startups, mostly in B2B software. The most successful ones have had some distribution tricks to quickly get their first happy customers. Here are the Best (and worst) distribution wedges I have seen for Pre-Seed software startups.

We're hiring a Chief of Staff! 🧑‍🚀 Looking for someone who thrives on solving challenges, building systems, and creating order out of chaos. The perfect person is detail-oriented, thoughtful, and driven by a sense of curiosity. Full JD below, please share :)

In preparing for my CNBC segment with Scott Wapner today, I watched this 40 minute deep-dive on DeepSeek by Deirdre Bosa. Must watch. Fantastic detail. youtube.com/watch?v=WEBieb…

Join Us in Deep Tech Venture Capital! We're recruiting Fellows to work with the Deep Tech Fund (an Alumni Ventures Fund) throughout 2025. 👉 Learn more about the program: av.vc/venture-fellow… 👉 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Please share this with anyone who might

1/3 In the spirit of learning-in-public and transparency to founders, we're sharing the 4 LP letters we've published since launching Conviction. Here's how we see the AI landscape. There's never been a time of more opportunity. If you're a founder, please reach out! Links👇

Great event last week at our Menlo Park office with Christian Weedbrook , CEO of unicorn quantum computing company Xanadu!

It was great to host an inspiring group of DutchTechX entrepreneurs at Alumni Ventures Menlo Park office! Thanks Oliver Binkhorst for organizing the visit.

We sent all Fifty Years portfolio founders this email 2 weeks ago. Subject "Farewell, stability".

It was a great Venture Summit West at Computer History Museum! Congrats to all of the startups that participated in the pitch sessions. 🚀

Sam Altman at TED today OpenAI’s user base doubled in just the past few weeks (an accidental disclosure on stage). “10% of the world now uses our systems a lot.” Reflecting on the life ahead for his newborn: “My kids will never be smarter than AI.” Reaction to DeepSeek: “We

We’re delighted to share that Project Hajar has been awarded a $1M #XFACTOR award by XPRIZE Carbon Removal. After a four-year competition, Project Hajar was named the strongest performer in the Air category. The XPRIZE judges felt the project represents a compelling example of

Super Founders 📕 summary If a founder has prior experience of being a successful founder, their next startup has an 8x higher chance of becoming a unicorn. “This was the strongest difference I observed in my data between the billion-dollar and the random group.” — author Ali

1/ We're dedicating $100M to support American scientists facing funding cuts through the Lux Science Helpline, an expansion of our Lux Labs program. To compete in the future, innovation must be funded 🧪💡