Venture Capital

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Notes

• As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works | TechCrunch — VC fund mechanics and return expectations every founder must understand
• Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB's early-stage and growth portfolios — Brex bid for SVB startup loan portfolios after FDIC opened non-bank bids
• General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz bet on large language models for health care — VC firms co-lead $50M seed round for LLM healthcare startup
• How one software engineer is turning Silicon Valley Bank's collapse story into a musical — Atlanta engineer creating gospel hip-hop musical "The Valley" about SVB collapse
• Pacific Northwest startups most likely to have a successful exit, according to PitchBook — ML tool predicting VC-backed startup exit likelihood and type
• PitchBook's new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit | TechCrunch — ML startup exit predictor accuracy claims and embedded bias risks
• Remembering the startups we lost in 2022 | TechCrunch — Notable startup failures and shutdowns across sectors in 2022
• The Smartest Bet In Silicon Valley — Foundation Capital VC defends startup founders after Silicon Valley Bank collapse
• Venture Catastrophists | No Mercy / No Malice — SVB collapse exposes VC libertarian hypocrisy versus banking trust
• Why Silicon Valley Falls for Frauds — How Silicon Valley's culture of narrative and FOMO enables large-scale financial fraud