i cannot imagine a bigger bag missed than being wrong about where the money is gonna land from superintelligence can you imagine explaining to your LPs how you missed that the spin you would have to pull↗

scoop: a new vc fund managed by @dylan522p, founder of @SemiAnalysis_, is targeting raising $400 million, per a securities filing. w the raise, patel joins a swelling coterie of tech personalities who have parlayed fandom into fundraising.↗

Notes from Chapter One Investment Committee (July 20, 2026) 1. We recently finished fundraising our Fund Three (which we call Page III). We'll have more details to share soon, but one of the biggest questions we're now thinking about is how we want to build the firm in advance o…↗

Gradient GP @darian314 is bullish on solo GPs, but only ones that raise sub-$50M funds. "I think that the sub-$50M solo GP is a great business. If you can raise the money, you can get allocation in rounds. You don't have to compete. It's when you get above $50M that it becomes r…↗

Today, we are unveiling @hyperion__cap, an investment firm built to be the best strategy partner for deeptech founders. Again and again, we heard from these founders that venture capital has been failing them, even as more deeptech funds entered the market in recent years. Too…↗

Never underestimate the power of One Good Tweet. Rork’s founders were $15k in credit card debt and sleeping on a friend’s mattress when Matt’s post went viral. 15 mins later, Austen Allred wired $100k. By end of day they closed $350k, leading to a $2.8M seed round led by a16z.↗

Here are 6 investor databases with ~4,000 VCs + Angels for all founders fundraising 🧵↗

Ok I'll bite Here are the first ~20 investor updates we sent at @teachable from inception to $1M+ in ARR Reading them again fills me with nostalgia and infinite amounts of cringe but hope they help someone out there!↗

1/ For early-stage #startups your narrative matters just as much as your idea. We've put together a pre-seed pitch deck outline based on thousands of successful decks that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Here's what your deck should include:↗

We just raised our Series E in the middle of Covid. Raising this round was so different from other rounds! Biggest differences/lessons we learned:↗

Founders: what's in your pitch deck? Here are my must-haves: ✨Vision 💵Market size ☹️Problem 😊Solution 🏰Competition/differentiation moat 📝Go-to-market/business model 📈Traction/financials 🗺Roadmap/milestones to achieve 👛Fundraise/use of funds 👩🏽‍🎤Team/advisors/investo…↗

The first thing founders should do when they think they're ready to fundraise is lock down the narrative of their startup.↗

The reason most founders are surprised by the difficulty of fundraising is that they're learning something about themselves, not something about fundraising. They know fundraising is hard for startups that don't seem appealing to investors. They just didn't realize they had one.↗

I want to get to know small fund managers in SF. I meet lots of founders who are way too early or need too little financing for people I know at big funds. Instead of helping them get optionality checks, it would be nice to know small funds. Who should I connect with?↗

@tinvaan I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year, work closely with users to make something amazing, and otherwise stay off SV's radar. In other words, be the opposite of a scenester.↗

@eriktorenberg @jrdngonen @dksf @CaseyNeistat @368 YC took off in part because of the lack of education and a playbook for starting a company and raising money. I’m not sure YC would be a fraction of what it is today if it started in 2018. So, which industries today have a simil…↗

The cheat codes for raising angel funding...↗