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The Impact of Angel Investing: Interview with Anne Maghas

Venture Well

After successfully founding three companies, Maghas realized she had valuable insights to share with other founders, particularly those facing similar challenges, as Black women in the innovation and entrepreneurship space. The post The Impact of Angel Investing: Interview with Anne Maghas appeared first on VentureWell.

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Auctions in AI : Cost of Capital as a Strategic Advantage

Tomasz Tunguz

A decade ago, most startup pitches ended with a calculation justifying the amount they sought to raise. In other words, the raise was an output of the financial model. But for the most sought after companies, the raise amount is disjointed from the capital needs of the business - instead it’s driven by the fundraising auction. Great fundraisers are the teams that build the most auction pressure.

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QuSecure Names Rebecca Krauthamer as CEO, Gains Series A Funding

American Entrepreneurship

The appointment of Krauthamer positions QuSecure for post-Quantum Cryptography Expansion. QuSecure, Inc., a leader in the rapidly evolving post-quantum cryptography (PQC) field announced two major steps positioning it for the future. The four-plus year-old company named industry veteran Rebecca Krauthamer as CEO and closed a Series A round to accelerate its cutting-edge, quantum-resistant cybersecurity solutions.

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[ICON in ICON] ICON’s project “Duneflow” completes successful space flight with Blue Origin

OurCrowd

Project “Duneflow” is a scientific apparatus developed by ICON in partnership with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s MMPACT project, Game Changing Development (GCD) and NASA Flight Opportunities Program. Read more here.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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Partnership Judo: Don't work against people when vying for a partnership position

This is going to be BIG.

Is your firm feeling like Two VCs enter, one must leave given the limited number of partnership slots? It doesnt have to be that way. Venture Capital Is a Team Sport: Navigating the Partner Track with a Collaborative Mindset I was talking to one of my VC coaching clients a recently promoted young principal at a firm that's likely to raise a much bigger fund next time around.

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“You have to assume every company will have access to the same LLMs and voices. The challenge, then, is to build a company that thrives despite this reality” Five Questions with RegalAI’s Alex Levin on Building In a Fast Moving Industry and More

Hunter Walk

Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. We’ve done it this way for two reasons – first, it works internally given our style of decision-making and respectful but loud debate. Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a situation where one of us was excited and the other one didn’t block it.

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[Cyabra in AiThority] AiThority interview with Dan Brahmy, CEO & Co-Founder of Cyabra

OurCrowd

DanBrahmy, CEO & Co-Founder of Cyabra shares more about Generative AI, online disinformation, the intersection of AI and cybersecurity and more in this quick chat Read more here.

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Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital: Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.

Hunter Walk

Sometimes I write a post just to be able to send the URL to people when they ask me a specific question. This one is “what advice do you have for someone who is a new VC analyst or wants to join a firm at that level?” If you’re joining a venture capital firm as a junior professional I’d recommend against being a generalist, or trying to get good at everything.

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 Insurance is always too expensive – until you need it!     

Berkonomics

I expect that you have a story about how insurance saved you lots of money in your past. And of course, thats the purpose of paying for policies when you think youll never need them. So, here comes the fact: Business insurance is one of the more poorly managed mitigations of risk in small and many medium sized corporations, often because of failure to assign the responsibility to an individual or department, and sometimes just from the willingness to bet against the event and save cash.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?