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Earlier this year, I had coffee with the chief investment officer of a large public pension fund. His fund doesn’t invest directly into venture (they have a fund of funds position instead), so my new ...

Micro Venture Capital (Micro VC) refers to a subset of venture capital that specifically targets early-stage startups requiring smaller amounts of capital, typically ranging from $25,000 to $500,000.

The prevailing wisdom is that there is a shortage of venture capital (VC). Is this “wisdom” true? It depends on how you measure the shortage. If the “shortage” is measured based on entrepreneurs ...

AI investments hit $110 billion in 2024, and the funding landscape in 2025 is more competitive than ever. For early-stage startups, that means more money in the market, but also more pressure to stand ...

What Is Micro VC Fund? Although angel investors have traditionally dominated early-stage funding, a new crop of venture capital funds (VCs) is now actively engaging in pre-seed and seed funding rounds ...

For a long time, early-stage investing was guided by a fairly simple scoreboard: founder profile strength, market size, and a loosely defined path to profitability somewhere far in the future. If a ...