It's becoming insane again in venture capital: A tiny AI startup wants investors to pay $100 to book a meeting with its founder.

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An admission ticket and hundred dollar bill
Serious candidates only.

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58 Black investors changing the venture capital industry with firms that fund diverse startup founders

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From left: Paul Judge, chairman of The Open Opportunity Fund; Tessa Flippin, founder and managing partner of Capitalize VC; Claude Grunitzky, CEO of The Equity Alliance; Gayle Jennings O'Byrne, cofounder and general partner of Wocstar Fund.

Open Opportunity Fund, Capitalize VC, The Equity Alliance Wocstar Fund

A top investor in global brands from Airbnb to Snap says we need swift 'guardrails' to get countries on the same page about AI

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General Catalyst CEO and managing director Hemant Taneja.

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A friend called her maternity leave a 'holiday.' It made her realize just how much she got wrong about it, too.

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Samira Shihab, a founder and mom of three, holding her newborn baby.

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It seems Peter Thiel's fund timed a reported $200 million crypto spending spree perfectly

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Peter Thiel at a crypto conference.

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Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge bought SoftBank's diversity fund. Now they're trying to raise $200 million for it.

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Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge of the Open Opportunity Fund
Marcelo Claure and Paul Judge of the Open Opportunity Fund.

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Homes made in factories were supposed to save us from the housing crisis, but the companies that make them are failing

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A crane taking four 15-foot-wide by 60-foot-long modular home segments and stacking them on one on top of the other to make a new duplex in Aurora, Colorado.
A crane taking four 15-foot-wide by 60-foot-long modular home segments and stacking them one on top of the other to make a new duplex in Aurora, Colorado.

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Cactos builds energy storage systems with old Tesla batteries. It just raised $28.5 million with this 24-slide pitch deck.

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The Cactos team stand alongside battery storage units.

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Startup founders will face an 'unprecedented' crisis of mental health this year, VCs predict

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"It feels as though we are in the early stages of an unprecedented founder mental health crisis," predicts Brad Svrluga from Primary.

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The most important and influential venture capitalists in the US

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From left: Brad Svrluga of Primary; Chris Lyons of Andreessen Horowitz; Jesse Draper of Halogen Ventures; Sarah Liu of Fifth Wall

Brad Svrluga, Chris Lyons, Jesse Draper, Sarah Liu

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