Venture Capital Industry News

Northwestern Mutual adds $150 million to venture capital investments

Northwestern Mutual is investing an additional $150 million in its venture capital efforts, with a goal of accelerating fintech and insurtech innovation. The investment brings NM's total venture capital allocation to $350 million. “The funds…

The Illusion of Security at the Washington Hilton, MTG Keeps Sounding the Alarm, & Vatican Dinners and Venture Capital

Kareem's Daily Quote: Even science doesn't have all the answers. Fumbling at the One-Yard Line: When 'standard procedure' fails the president. Video Break: Playing great at 41 MTG Sez: Is someone using a shooting to their advantage? Galileo's…

Chase Sapphire Preferred vs. Capital One Venture Rewards: Which Travel Card Is Better?

If you're shopping around for your first real travel card, you've probably already heard about the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card (see rates and fees) and the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card (see rates and fees). With matching annual fees…

Exchange startup Liquid raises $18 million Series A for leveraged trading on stocks, crypto, commodities, prediction markets, and private secondaries

Some of crypto's most lucrative businesses have always been its exchanges, but crypto-based exchanges are coming to be less reliant on crypto trading. Liquid, which launched as a hub for crypto-based derivatives in 2025, closed an $18 million…

FDA Turns to AI to Speed Up Clinical Trials

InStudio Ventures Launches $50 Million Sports Investing Fund Anchored By NFL Team Stakes

T he NFL was the last of the four major North American professional sports leagues to allow institutional investors to buy stakes in its teams, changing its ownership rules in 2024, and although InStudio Ventures isn't among the eight private…

Is California a Harbinger of the AI Job Disruption?

If venture capital investment is a measure of the economic future, California would seem to have locked things up. In the first quarter of this year — by far the biggest quarter for US VC investment ever — an unheard-of 85% of the…

Senate Armed Services GOP argues defense spending will boost economy ahead of Hegseth testimony

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is rolling out its messaging playbook ahead of the Trump administration's push to pass President Trump's $1.5 trillion defense budget request, arguing that increasing defense spending will create more jobs…

Millennials still open their mailboxes, and marketers keep forgetting that

Tension: Marketers built entire strategies around digital-first assumptions while a generation quietly kept responding to physical mail. Noise: The tech industry's obsession with digital channels drowns out evidence that tangible marketing still…

Snabbit Secures $56 Million, Scales Rapidly in Hyperlocal Services Market

Snabbit, a quick home services platform, has raised $56 million in a Series D funding round, taking its total capital raised to $112 million within two years. The Series D round saw participation from Susquehanna Venture Capital and Mirae Asset…

How a Spanish startup pivoted to video AI and built a $230 million ARR business with no VC funding

Greetings, Tech Editor Alexei Oreskovic guest-writing your Term Sheet today. Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as the center of the tech universe, and San Francisco's heavy concentration of AI companies is only reinforcing that habit. But…

Pharmacy Has A Tower Records Problem. Outsiders Rebuilding The Tech Stack Might Help.

View of a Tower Records sign above the store's parking lot, San Francisco, California, May 1, 1979. The sign advertises an upcoming performance by Herbie Hancock and Weather Report (at the Greek Theater) and Cher's 'Take Me Home' album. (Photo by…

Hair Is Confidence. It's Also a $3.7 Billion Business Lesson

Why the business of hair is recession-proof — and what it says about how women spend Taylor Swift at the Billboard Music Awards Ask a woman about a bad hair day and she likely won't describe a cosmetic problem. She'll describe a confidence…

Ten years after Ethereum's DAO disaster, it's time to try again

It's been a decade since I frantically pounded out a warning letter known as The DAO Moratorium. So urgent was the missive that we pushed the document live before it was complete, allowing anyone who was interested to read along in real time. Even…

Exclusive: AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round led by Notion Capital

Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European startups on hiring at the London-based venture capital firm Atomico. During that time, he kept coming back to the same observation: nearly every business problem at a young…