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Our Favorite Newcomer Stories of 2024

15 Quotes That Defined 2024, From Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk & More

VCs Feel the Market Cheer Heading into the Holidays

Newcomer's Capricious 2024 Silicon Valley Superlatives

Is the Tech IPO Window Open?

Don't Count Out Alphabet

Exclusive: What Forerunner & Bain Capital Ventures Secretly Told Their LPs This Fall

Shake-ups at Silicon Valley's Biggest VC Firms

Requesting Nominations: Newcomer Silicon Valley Superlatives

Top Tech Execs Speak Kindly of Musk & Trump as Techno-Optimism Surges in Silicon Valley

Has AI Hit a Wall? A Debate from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit

Listen to Anthropic's Dario Amodei from Cerebral Valley + Videos from on Stage

Scoop: Space VCs Raising a New Fund as Interest in Space Deals Ticks Up

Our Biggest Takeaways from Cerebral Valley: No Wall on AI Progress Despite the Scaling Law Debate

Fear-Mongering & Forecasting: Assessing AI's Predictions About AI

LPs Shy Away from Growth Funds, Eye Specialized Early-Stage Managers

The AI Startup Fantasy Draft

Trump & AI Policy + Overrated/Underrated on the Cerebral Valley Podcast

Maybe Not Their First Choice But Tech Gets a New, Moderate SF Mayor

Last Chance to Apply for Cerebral Valley! Nov. 20 in San Francisco

Congrats to Silicon Valley's Trump Supporters. Here's to Hoping He Is Who You Think He Is.

Musk’s Trump Play Looks Corrupt & Possibly Effective

The Founders Writing Checks into Silicon Valley’s Top AI Startups

Silicon Valley Can't Look Away from the Election

Crypto, Antitrust and 'American Dynamism' on the Ballot

Reflections on Newcomer Four Years In

Newcomer Turns Four

Big VC Firms Show Their Might as LPs Grow Cautious

Listen: Bullish on AI, Bullish on Self-Driving, But Apprehensive About OpenAI & Tesla (with Jon McNeill)

What's New at Cerebral Valley This Year

VCs Can't Get Enough of AI for Lawyers

The Bear Case for OpenAI at $157 Billion

The Ongoing Startup Downturn & More PR People Than Reporters to Answer Their Emails

VCs Bet on Translation & Voice Startups...OpenAI Closes Largest VC Round Ever...Q3 Deal Count Decline

Listen: OpenAI's 'Great Man,' AI Regulation & Drugs

Open-Source Battle Holds Lessons…Do Psychedelics Kill the Startup Spirit?...Bolt Investors Face ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’

AI + Robots, YC Preview & Why the Cool Kids Keep Picking on Tech

Apply to Attend the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on Nov. 20 in San Francisco

YC Embraces Missiles…Tan Goes Big With Smaller Batches…Newsom’s AI Dilemma

Is a Fintech Comeback Brewing?...A Slow August for Investors...Zuckerberg Regrets His Regrets

Anthropic, Scale & Databricks CEOs Will Speak at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on Nov. 20 in San Francisco

AI Coding Funding Frenzy...Down Rounds Are (Delightfully) Down...Miami Losing VC Luster

The Bolt Saga Continues: A Legal Threat, an Investor Letter & a Cryptic Statement

Consumer Investors Still Searching for an AI Breakthrough...OpenAI's $100 Billion Valuation...Once Hot Social Apps Fade

My Conversation With The Guy Who Wants to Invest $250M of ‘Marketing Capital' in Bolt

Bolt's Audacious Letter to Investors

Tally's Shutdown Is a Stark Reminder for Growth VCs...Fewer Venture Funds with DPI...WeRide Files For IPO

Investors Ask What's Next As Foundation Model Mania Recedes

Tesla 'Self-Driving' Under Fire...Startups Raising Multiple SAFEs...VCs Strike Back for Harris

Newcomer's Full Updated VC Directory Is Live

Help Us Improve Newcomer – Share Your Thoughts For the Chance To Earn Six Free Months

Markets Swirl on AI Promises...David Sacks & Parker Conrad Spar on X...A Look Back at Iconiq

Biotech's AI Moment Brings New Tools for Drug Discovery

VCs Get Creative on Distributions...Private-to-Private Deals in Vogue...Obvious Ventures in the VC Directory

Silicon Valley's Trump Embrace

Tech & Hollywood, a Sequel...AI Powers a Q2 Funding Boom...Pear VC in the VC Directory

Applications Over AI Models...Scott Belsky's Copyright Concerns...a New Technological Cold War. Here’s What You Missed from Cerebral Valley New York

7 Videos from Cerebral Valley New York: Snowflake CEO, Lambda CEO, Goldman CIO, Runway CTO & More

The Download from Cerebral Valley New York: Big Models Lose Their Iron Grip as the Zeitgeist Shifts to Applications

Datadog, Modal & Intercom CEOs Added as Speakers at Cerebral Valley New York

A Superintelligent Startup...Perplexity's Tricky Web Crawlers...Battery Ventures in the VC Directory

AI Model Startups vs Big Tech...SaaS Hit From Two Directions...Menlo Ventures in the VC Directory

AI Is Masking the Downturn...FirstMark in the VC Directory...Emerging Managers Keep the Faith

Why Investors Can't Get Enough of AI Robotics Deals Right Now

Sequoia's Elon Play...Seed-Stage GenAI Funding Slows...Former OpenAI Board Member Speaks Out About Sam Altman

Less Than One Month Until Cerebral Valley New York. Apply Now.

Anthropic in the Arena...San Francisco Tops AI Investments...Felicis in the VC Directory

OpenAI & Google Square Off… Anthropic Nabs Instagram Co-Founder… Lux Capital in the VC Directory

'The Dictator': Chamath Palihapitiya's Broken Professional Relationships

Altimeter's Returns + Their Secret Forecasts for Uber, Nvidia, Snowflake, Meta, Amazon & Microsoft

Wiz's Billion-Dollar Cyber Deal… Norwest Venture Partners in the VC Directory… Series C Rounds Rebound

Silicon Valley on the Hill...Companies Spending More on AI...Tesla Drops its EV Chargers

Newcomer's VC Directory: The Key Details on Sequoia, a16z, YC, Lux Capital & Other Top VC Firms

Announcing New Speakers for Cerebral Valley New York on June 27

Unicorn Haves & Have-Nots… A Venture Capital Debate... BCV in the VC Directory

The Investor Who Called Defense Tech’s Big Moment

Cerebral Valley New York Speakers: Snowflake CEO, Ramp CEO, Runway CTO, Databricks VP, Sequoia Partner & More Soon

New Funds, New Era...Tesla's Tough Week...a16z in the VC Directory

Announcing Cerebral Valley New York

Amid AI Excitement, Landing Customers Proves Tricky...Google's Gemini Gains Ground...Sequoia in the VC Directory

Chip Startups Take on Nvidia... All-In on Truth Social... New IPO Value Way Below 2021...VCs Share YC Demo Day Favorites

YC Startups Land Funding Ahead of Demo Day…LP Check Sizes Are Shrinking… Anthropic Raises Billions

Why Software Is Eating The Banks | Mercury CEO Immad Akhund, Then Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses

Reddit IPO Is a YC Origin Story…Microsoft’s Inflection Deal…IVP in the VC Directory

Lessons Learned From a Bank Run (Peter Hébert & Laurence Tosi) + SVB's Marc Cadieux

Breaking the Bank: BCV's Matt Harris on Why Banks Are in a `Whole Heap of Trouble' from the Newcomer Banking Summit

Newcomer Banking Summit: All Eyes on Silicon Valley Bank

10 Charts on the Banking Meltdown of 2023 & the State of Financial Technology Today

Bitcoin’s Surge…Spark Capital in the VC Directory…Tech-Backed Moderates Win Big in SF

Last Chance to Apply to the Newcomer Banking Summit. It's Next Thursday in San Francisco.

Exclusive: New Partners at Khosla Ventures + Vinod Khosla Scraps on X

Musk Sues Altman...Google's Search Rivals See an Opening…A Shakeup in AI Rankings

February's Top Tech Deals: Hadrian, Lambda Labs, Magic.dev, Abridge & More

We Need Self-Driving Cars

VC Directory: Benchmark, Index, Khosla, Lightspeed, Founders Fund & Much More

AI Chips Take Over Wall Street…Index Ventures in the VC Directory…Reddit Gears Up For Its IPO

VC Returns Revealed: Fund Performance for Sequoia, IA Ventures, USV & More

OpenAI Generates Videos & Trillion-Dollar Headlines...January VC Funding Not Exactly A Bounce Back...Benchmark in the VC Directory

Newcomer Mailbag: Media Troubles, IPOs, Adam Neumann, and More

Rippling, Brex, and TriplePoint Join the Newcomer Banking Summit

JPM, Stifel, & Lead Bank Join As Speakers at Newcomer Banking Summit

VCs Take Heat for China Deals…Down Rounds Up in 2023…Lightspeed in the VC Directory

Send in Your Burning Questions!

January's Top Tech Deals: Bilt Rewards, Devoted Health, Quantinuum & More

‘American Dynamism’: How VCs Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Defense Tech...Hot Startup Funding Rounds...Byju's Leads EdTech Rout

Exclusive: Basis Set Raises $185 Million Third Fund, Doubling Down on AI & Automation

Introducing the Newcomer Banking Summit

Tech Stock Tear Not Helping IPOs...Juicy Financial Leaks...General Catalyst in the VC Directory

Sequoia, Founders Fund, USV, Elad Gil & Benchmark Top Venture Manager Survey

OpenAI in Davos…Looking Back on 10 Years of Unicorns With Aileen Lee...Stripe and SpaceX’s Secondary Pricing

SOURCES: Stripe & SpaceX Are Buying Back Their Own Shares

Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset Arrives Amid CES Buzz...Khosla Ventures in the Spotlight...Fewer Startups Landing Seed Funding

Consumer Investing Struggled Even in the Boom Times. 2023 Was Worse. Can AI Save It?

Newcomer in 2024!