Peak XV ramps up dealmaking following Sequoia split
Peak XV Partners has signed over 10 term sheets and executed three exits in the 10 weeks since it announced a split with Sequoia, according to minutes shared by an attendee to a closed-door gathering between the venture firm and its portfolio founders Friday. The accelerated dealmaking comes at a
Read moreFor climate tech startups, the IRA is starting to pay off
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in August 2022, has allocated $400 billion in federal dollars for clean energy projects as the United States aims for up to a 40% reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. And even startups are beginning to benefit.
Read moreBuild a JavaScript Tool Library That Simulates Interfaces to Generate Random Data
Image generated using MidjourneyWhen it comes to web development, many frontend developers have experienced the waiting process for backend API integration. Initially, when the backend APIs are not ready, many developers are unable to start working and can only do some preliminary preparations, which can feel like a waste of time.Some
Read moreWhy generalist investors will always win
Will Robbins Contributor Share on Twitter Will Robbins is a general partner at Contrary Capital. More posts by this contributor In the new normal for VC, builders will win Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech Year after year, vertical-specific investors become increasingly central to the venture world. Andreessen Horowitz’s American
Read moreCommunication using thought alone? Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities
Sitting in a meeting room in a startup office in Lisbon, I silently typed the answer to a question only the person opposite would know the answer to. What kind of coffee had I asked for when I’d arrived at the office? A short moment later, without even moving or
Read moreDo 5% less
I’ve been thinking about things that were ruined by doing about 5% more than was necessary, like an actor whose plastic surgery looks plastic. Sometimes excellence requires pushing ourselves to do more than we want to do or more than we think we can do. But sometimes excellence requires restraint.
Read moreThreads app’s latest update gives more prominence to reposts
Threads haven’t launched a web version yet, but the app has shipped a new update to give more prominence to reposts on the social network. Meta has changed two things regarding reposts on the app. First, there is now a dedicated “Reposts” tab on the profile page, so people can
Read moreTwitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams
Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes, its monthly product update show, the company announced that it would soon let streamers
Read moreSemantic search without the napalm grandma exploit (Ep. 600)
Ben and senior software engineer Kyle Mitofsky are joined by two people who worked on the launch of Overflow AI: director of data science and data platform Michael Foree and senior software developer Alex Warren. They talk about how and why Stack Overflow launched semantic search, how to ensure a
Read moreHealthXCapital’s team joins Jungle Ventures
The team behind HealthXCapital, which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. Seemant Jauhari, who led HealthXCapital since it was founded eight years ago, is now a partner at Jungle, where he will invest in healthcare startups in Southeast Asia and India. HealthXCapital’s
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