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Retail, work and food production will be among sectors to watch in the year ahead, writes Scrum Ventures partner Ryan Mendoza.

Venture firms responded to working amid a pandemic in 2020 by conducting socially distanced walks and meeting more frequently over Zoom as part of their due diligence efforts.

Based on pageviews and the feedback we received, here are my top Friday Letter columns from 2020.

The medical system created a $15m venture fund to invest and incubate start-ups in addition to the creation of an innovation lab.

The Menlo Park firm names Sandhya Hegde, formerly with Khosla and Sequoia in India, as its newest partner.

VCs in South-East Asia are telling me that LPs are eyeing the region and 2021 could be watershed year for investors.

The firm saw strong LP demand for its early-stage-focused healthtech fund as it soared past its $150m fundraising target.

Christina Farr joins the venture firm after more than three years as a healthtech reporter for CNBC, based in Silicon Valley.

Oper8r co-founders Winter Mead and Welly Sculley chat about their firm, which operates as an institutional fund management training program for emerging venture capital firms, and the GP-LP relationship.

It's that time of the year again, when we look ahead and take a peak back at the news that shaped the VC community. Was it all pandemic-related? What else happened that was remarkable in 2020?