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The big bet on AI agents

Venture investors are bullish about AI agents, which are said to "achieve near-human cognition in many areas" and are expected to be adopted quickly in the enterprise.

7 min read · 30 October 2024

Magnetar's novel strategy: Compute time for equity

Magnetar Capital is taking an unusual approach with its debut venture fund, offering compute time in lieu of cash to AI start-ups.

4 min read · 05 September 2024

Groq deal highlights quest for faster, more efficient chips

Part two of this five-part series looks at the challenges presented by the rapidly growing data center industry, which will require a host of new technologies – and substantial venture capital investment – to meet the demands of AI.

9 min read · 08 August 2024

Wiz’s $23bn deal with Alphabet could be a boon for Gen AI as well as cybersecurity

Wiz’s success could incentivize more cybersecurity start-ups to focus on addressing AI risks, which could help reduce companies’ trepidation about fully integrating AI into their workflows.

4 min read · 18 July 2024

Robots to the rescue

The market for humanoid robots may approach $40bn in about 10 years as these nimble machines take on jobs that are repetitive or dangerous and where turnover is high.

10 min read · 01 July 2024

Chatbots are cool, but AI infrastructure is where the big money is: Sekhar

Menlo Ventures' newest partner, Rama Sekhar, says 'it’s still too darn hard for companies to deploy AI.'

2 min read · 25 January 2024

Menlo Ventures is raising $500m for Anthropic deal

The move comes just two months after Menlo announced that it had raised $1.35bn to invest in tech companies “leading the AI transformation.”

3 min read · 10 January 2024

Readers are stressed about distributions

Of our four most-read stories this year, three are focused on the venture secondaries market.

1 min read · 21 December 2023

How does AI supercharge due diligence?

More VC firms are turning to AI as part of the underwriting process

6 min read · 05 September 2023

How a UK venture firm is using AI to make better investments

Richard Blakesley is using AI to vet investments for the Boost Fund, noting that 'the early-stage fundraising process is plagued by bias of all sorts: expert bias, pattern-recognition bias, network bias and so forth.'

7 min read · 11 July 2023

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