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Let's Get Physical AI 🏗️
Apr 9, 2026
Runway is flexing its runway 💸
Apr 6, 2026
Getting SPAC to Deep Tech Public Markets
Mar 26, 2026
Layering Season: One Startup is Creating "Intelligence Layers"
Mar 19, 2026
Would you wear your ideas around your neck? 💭
Mar 9, 2026
Data centers are taking on water 🌊
Mar 5, 2026
Alarm Bells for 2 AI Startups ⚠️
Feb 27, 2026
Academia is too slow for AI
Feb 19, 2026
ARR you in the loop?
Feb 12, 2026
OpenClaw and Order: AI agents are talking to each other
Feb 5, 2026
The best way to get rid of an overhang
Jan 29, 2026
Is that a star? No Mom, it's a data center.
Jan 23, 2026
Is AI drug discovery more hype than hypothesis? 🧪
Jan 15, 2026
Venture is in its comeback era. 📈
Jan 8, 2026
AI Took Small Steps in 2025. That’s the Point.
Jan 2, 2026
A startup is turning 🐔 feathers into cashmere
Dec 18, 2025
AI that listens to your brain 🧠
Dec 10, 2025
Data centers can't keep their cool 🧊
Dec 4, 2025
Transparent AI is the 🥧 in the sky
Nov 28, 2025
Can Bezos deliver a startup in 2 days? 👀
Nov 21, 2025
AI is growing up; founders are getting younger.
Nov 15, 2025
Machines are moving in ... and doing your laundry 👕
Oct 6, 2025
AI agents need to bake for 10 more years
Oct 29, 2025
Flying cars are real ... but there's a catch 👀
Oct 22, 2025
Is the humanoid robot bubble bursting?
Oct 16, 2025
Delivery bots are wheely trying 🤖
Oct 8, 2025
Why factories should think inside the box 🧰
Oct 1, 2025
No pitch, no problem. VC is changing. 👀
Sep 25, 2025
Two brains, twice the potential 🧠
Sep 18, 2025
Would you give $5B to live longer?
Sep 11, 2025
It's time for a vibe check for vibe coding
Sep 4, 2025
There's a mutation in the IPO market 🧪
Aug 20, 2025
The Latest Prompt-blem & the Dirt on Biochar
Aug 28, 2025
Do AI coding assistants need assistance?
Aug 14, 2025
The very first commercial fusion power plant
Aug 7, 2025
R&D or RIP? Trump's New AI Action Plan
Jul 31, 2025
Neural Net Worth and the AI Talent Wars
Jul 23, 2025
Browsers are dead. Time for an AI chief of staff.
Jul 16, 2025
Unicorns are back and better than ever 🦄
Jul 9, 2025
How one startup faked it 'til they banked it
Jul 2, 2025
It's AI Recruitment Blitz-mas: What's the Latest?
Jun 25, 2025
This decade will be the farthest thing from AV-erage
Jun 18, 2025
The U.S. raised $69B for AI. Still think it's over?
Jun 11, 2025
The Bot Thickens: Hugging Face's New Humanoids
Jun 4, 2025
Analyst or AI-nalyst? Entry-level jobs are endangered
May 28, 2025
Is climate tech having an identity crisis?
May 21, 2025
Driverless trucks are here. What are you a-freight of?
May 14, 2025
AI taking over VC?! In this economy?!
May 7, 2025
AI, Assays & Assets: What We're Backing in Biotech
Apr 30, 2025
What we’re looking for in biotech and techbio
Apr 25, 2025
Earth Day is over; climate tech isn't 🌎
Apr 23, 2025
Founder Spotlight with Dan Andersen from Insightful
Symphonic is challenging traditional VC
Apr 16, 2025
Dire wolves are back, but what's happening to lab-grown startups?
Apr 9, 2025
Watch out, fintech is on the come-up 📈
Apr 2, 2025
Inside Neeka Mashouf's Cofounding Journey @ Rubi Labs
Mar 26, 2025
Founder Spotlight with Neeka Mashouf from Rubi Laboratories
Mar 24, 2025
Startup headcounts are down; Insightful is up
Mar 19, 2025
What's different about Y Combinator's latest batch?
Mar 13, 2025
A mice-y achievement for de-extinction 🐁
Mar 5, 2025
Could Quantum Computing Arrive in 5 Years?
Feb 26, 2025
New startup with their A👀 on safety
Feb 19, 2025
AI body doubles are taking over video calls
Feb 12, 2025
Will bacteria be the next Gucci?
Feb 5, 2025
Seed rounds are sprouting 🌱
Jan 29, 2025
Is $500 billion enough?
Jan 22, 2025
Boardy AI: From pre-seed to seed in < 3 months
Jan 15, 2025
Are small VC firms stuck in the shadows?
Jan 8, 2025
What lies ahead for the tech industry? 🔮
Jan 2, 2025
How did AI really transform fintech? 🤔
Dec 18, 2024
Pre-seed fundraising is down year-over-year
Dec 11, 2024
AI has bedside manner & a shopping addiction
Dec 4, 2024
Is pre-seed activity heating up for December?
Nov 27, 2024
New tech is on the hunt for aliens 👽
Nov 20, 2024
A boost for early-stage consumer tech 🚀
Nov 14, 2024
Are small funds falling behind?
Nov 6, 2024
A funding-filled week: Early-stage stats, DOE digging
Oct 30, 2024
A new big city for big fundraising?
Oct 23, 2024
Seed valuations on the up & up ⬆️
Oct 16, 2024
AI agents are getting new gigs
Oct 9, 2024
Why Y Combinator is taking on heat
Oct 2, 2024
What in the world is "founder mode"?
Sep 25, 2024
A Woman-Led Venture Fund Taking Center Stage
Sep 18, 2024
Climate tech dollars are climbing 📈
Sep 12, 2024
How to give sustainability a chemical kick
Sep 4, 2024
Pre-seed raises raising the roof
Aug 28, 2024
Startups going silent into that good night
Aug 21, 2024
Valuations going up; Upside Foods going down?
Aug 14, 2024
Setting standards and spacing out 🗒️
Aug 7, 2024
Meet your new bestie in a necklace
Jul 31, 2024
The IT factor 🖥️
Jul 24, 2024
Robots losing their limbs 🤖
Jul 17, 2024
Humane exits, education overhauls, and AI surges ⚡
Jul 10, 2024
Crossing the commercial valley of death ☠️
Jul 3, 2024
The EV whirlwind and a new audience for NASA's tech
Jun 26, 2024
AI agents and agents in AI 🤔
Jun 20, 2024
Sirius Matters: VC Funds, Apple, and Recycling Robots
Jun 12, 2024
A fund has fears 😬
Jun 5, 2024
Humans and AI have something random in common
May 29, 2024
A face full of tech and top VC investing
May 22, 2024
1 departure, 1 discovery, & 1 difficulty 🧠
May 15, 2024
New chips & new rules ✍️
May 8, 2024
Getting brainy: is AI up to no good?
May 1, 2024
Startups fueling around 🔋
Apr 24, 2024
What's in the air? Big chat & investor trends
Apr 17, 2024
AI sets sail on a fancy, new partnership ⛵
Apr 10, 2024
A dangerous data world needs trust & safety
Apr 3, 2024
Funding on 🔥 ... for climate tech & 1 surprising startup
Mar 27, 2024
Drop it like it's hot: EV prices, Reddit's IPO, and Nvidia
Mar 21, 2024
What Goes Around: OpenAI got board + Colossal achievements
Mar 13, 2024
As far as the AI can see ...
Mar 6, 2024
A week all about firsts 1️⃣
Feb 28, 2024
All A👀s on YCombinator's newest wishlist
Feb 21, 2024
AI will never forget it
Feb 14, 2024
VC's Most Wanted (Biotech Edition)
Feb 7, 2024
Necessary Ventures’ Biotech Watch List
Feb 5, 2024
Elon Musk's first human connection
Jan 31, 2024
ChatGPT goes to school 📔
Jan 24, 2024
Elon Musk does laundry 👕
Jan 17, 2024
It's time to turn an 👀AI towards 2024
Jan 3, 2024
Funding is down; Stability AI is scaling up
Dec 20, 2023
Tech Babies: ChatGPT and Embryo DNA
Dec 6, 2023
Mega Days at Microsoft & Pre-Seed Updates
Nov 22, 2023
Delivering a pre-seed market update so drones don't have to
Nov 7, 2023
Tech for the tip of your tongue
Oct 24, 2023
The brains behind the operation 🧠
Oct 10, 2023
It's that deep.
Sep 26, 2023
Black mirror reality? One startup wants to clone people
Sep 12, 2023
Why is everyone obsessed with Nvidia
Aug 29, 2023
Big scientific news: A breakthrough and breakup
Aug 15, 2023
What happened to the blue birdie?
Aug 1, 2023
🌎 The world's largest ...
Jul 18, 2023
An electric edition for the Fourth 🎆
Jul 4, 2023
Let's talk about trust issues: seaweed, Binance, and AI
Jun 20, 2023
Should AI come with a warning label?
Jun 6, 2023
The Am(AI)zing Race: Humanoids, Griefbots, and More
May 23, 2023
The fastest A(I)nimal on earth
May 9, 2023
AI 🤝 Stem Cells
Apr 25, 2023
The simulation is real.
Apr 11, 2023
Stop being meta. Even Disney knows it's not cool anymore.
Mar 28, 2023
Techlash: From an SVB low to OpenAI high
Mar 16, 2023
On the rAIdar: Upcoming meetup & Apple's secret project
Feb 28, 2023
Roses are red, violets are blue, FTX has no gift for you
Feb 14, 2023
Mercedes leveled up, AI knows more languages than Shakira
Jan 31, 2023
Quantum Leaps: Computing, Healthcare, and Opportunities at NV Portfolio Companies
Jan 16, 2023
If you could live forever, would you?
Jan 4, 2023
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Dec 13, 2022
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Dec 8, 2022
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Nov 29, 2022
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Nov 22, 2022
NVTC Newsletter No. 11
Nov 15, 2022
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 1, 2022
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Oct 25, 2022
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