For young, promising venture capitalists, the path to partner has suddenly become much steeper

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As funding to startups stagnates, tech investors are putting fewer points on the board, making it harder to get promoted.

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Skyfire lets your AI agent spend your money. We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck the startup used to raise $8.5 million.

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Skyfire co-founders Amir Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt
Skyfire co-founders Amir Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt

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VCs are fighting, investors are annoyed, and the presidential election has become a constant distraction that Silicon Valley just wants to be over

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Lucy Guo's second act: After the 29-year-old left Scale AI, she has the 'itch to build' something new

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Lucy Guo, CEO of Passes and co-founder of Scale AI
Lucy Guo, CEO of Passes and cofounder of Scale AI.

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Ex-Google staffers are building a social-mapping platform for online and IRL communities

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Carlo Jörges and Helena Jaramillo are building mapping platform PamPam.

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Adam Neumann's new startup Flow faces trouble in Nashville

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Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann stepped down after a failed public launch.

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Exclusive: Buzzy mental health startup Slingshot AI just grabbed $30 million from A16z

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Slingshot AI launched this year to build large-language models for mental health.

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Starpath Robotics, a startup founded by former SpaceX employees, just raised $12 million using this 10-slide pitch deck

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Starpath Robotics cofounders Mihir Gondhalekar and Saurav Shroff
Starpath Robotics cofounders Mihir Gondhalekar and Saurav Shroff

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A16z's Jennifer Li went from business school to computer science to the startup world. Here's how she parlayed that experience into AI investing.

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Jennifer Li, partner at a16z

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I'm a VC in the world's fastest-growing economy. I look for 5 traits in first-time founders.

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Rajiv Srivatsa is a partner in Antler India

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