LPs want liquidity--and now we are here to help! Very excited to announce our new secondaries fund, for which we partnered with Kline Hill Partners Substantially oversubscribed at $105M, the intent is to deploy this capital through the end of this year. The focus will be…

We teach this framework in our Arc program, and many founders have taken advantage of it. Read some examples of how Sequoia Capital founders use the framework sequoiacap.com/article/pmf-fr…

HMRC new Crypto rules! 🚨
#crypto #hmrc #crypto news

Horsley Bridge have invested in just 5% of the world’s venture firms yet have exposure to 80% of global unicorns linkedin.com/posts/akhil--p…

A highlight at the Sohn Conference Foundation this week for me was one of the best investors I've met (@danielgross) interviewing one of the leading AI researchers (@EricSteinb) for 20 minutes.

They discuss the path to AGI through first building AI software engineer bots and how there will be a…

Spent a few days this week skiing with some crypto VC's and folks who allocate to crypto venture

There are some common themes on everyone's mind

1/ This is what crypto vc's are chatting about over $11 coors lights

Baselime + Cloudflare

Extremely excited to announce that Baselime is now part of Cloudflare! 🎉🎉🥳🥳

we ship on fridays, even the day we become part of Cloudflare Developers

Baselime is now part of Cloudflare, bringing cloud-native observability to the Cloudflare developer ecosystem. cfl.re/4aoiHpd

I had coffee with the head of a large family office today, and he said something really profound that I’d never quite put together.

Paraphrasing: “Capital structure ripples through management and ultimately ripples through employee experience”

If you work in a business run for…

Today Infinity AI (YC W24) made history with the first completely AI-generated YC demo day presentation.

Here's their full demo day video, featuring Lina Colucci, PhD's AI clone.

How 9 months of building without success, 2 difficult pivots, and dozens of rejections resulted in Loom:

In reflecting back on the last 8 years, and investing in 40+ companies, I've become convinced that the most common pitfall for founders is investing too much time on finding…

Yesterday we hosted 400 top university students at the YC Summer Conference - a fun day of talks about startups.  Talking to the students afterwards, I found myself giving a lot of the same advice. So in case it's useful to others, here is my startup advice for students.

c) Example: Applying SAFE Cap + Discount

Let's assume the SAFE was on a $3.5 billion post-money valuation cap and a 20% discount (i.e., $700M on a $3.5B cap is 20% dilution).

Considering Wonder already raised $750M in equity (on a $3.5 billion valuation) plus $100M in debt,…

I know this has become a popular visual, but a few thoughts on it ...

Founder-led sales is soooo incredibly powerful because only a founder (i.e., visionary) can recognize a market insight/unique learning unfolding that they weren't actively searching for on Day 1.

Lenny Rachitsky…

When emerging managers begin to “emerge” at fund ~3-4 & seek $ from institutional LPs, a common mistake I see is they they all chase the same small # of LPs that are highly “visible” in VC ecosystem. Meanwhile, the real $ is often elsewhere, well beyond NYC/SF/LA. E.g.: the…

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Sequoia Capital Here's the entire playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Yesterday, Sequoia Capital released their highly anticipated talk on Al from their Al Ascent event.

This is a must-listen for those building Al companies/ curious about Al.

Here are some of my favourite insights from the talk:

1. Al may be the greatest value creation opportunity…

APPLY NOW! Black Founder Challenge Programme - led by venture capitalist Andy Davis & his network of founders, operators & investors; open to Black heritage postgrad & PhD students from UK universities & Black heritage Imperial College London alumni & postdocs: imperialenterpriselab.com/events/imperia…