Hollywood superagent and investor Michael Ovitz praised Jeffrey Epstein and was invited to his island, files reveal

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Hollywood power broker turned venture capitalist Michael Ovitz.
Hollywood power broker turned venture capitalist Michael Ovitz.

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He's a rising star in venture capital. Here's where Iconiq's Ryan Koh says the next great investors will come from.

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Ryan Koh

Iconiq

Where Business Insider's Rising Stars of Venture Capital went to college — and how they got their start

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Sofia Dolfe, Ishani Thakur, and Jason Brooke.

Index Ventures; Hanabi Capital; Sappire Ventures; Business Insider

Gruve raises $50 million to solve what its CEO calls AI's biggest problem: power

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Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni, wearing a blue blazer and standing in front of a brown padded wall, with his hands in front of him.
Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni

Gruve

Meet the 37 rising stars of the venture capital industry

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Kendra Schultz, James Flynn, and Mustafa Neemuchwala.

Benchstrength; Sequoia Capital; NEA; Business Insider

Watch live: BI's Rising Stars of VC list

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Twenty-three investors on this year's list are from San Francisco, 12 are from New York City.

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The questions Leonis Capital investors ask to see if a startup's tech actually holds up

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Jenny Xiao and Jay Zhou, cofounders of Leonis Capital, share their top technical evaluation questions.

Leonis Capital

Redwood Materials lands Google as a new investor

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JB Straubel, founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, speaks about battery recycling at CES
JB Straubel, founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, speaks about battery recycling at CES

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Billionaire VC founder Vinod Khosla distances himself from pro-ICE remarks by an exec at his firm

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Khosla Ventures founder, Vinod Khosla.

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How startups can 'break through the noise' and grab attention, according to a marketer-turned-VC

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Lindsay Kaplan is a former marketing executive and cofounder of Chief, a networking company for women.

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