David Bogoslaw

Immediately after the FDIC’s takeover of Silicon Valley Bank, the Chicago-based VC firm created a vehicle to help fund payroll and dug into start-ups’ arrangements with payroll providers.

Non-solicitation and return-of-property provisions are likely to shift from individual employment contracts to M&A agreements if the ban is passed.

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, a longtime favorite of the tech industry, has venture capitalists scrambling to help portfolio companies that are depositors with the bank and make sure their own firms’ deposits are safe. One VC described the bank’s collapse as an “extinction level event” for technology start-ups.

A roundtable discussion with Patricia Muoio, partner at SineWave Ventures, Vesna Prchkovska, co-founder and CEO of QMENTA and Dipanwita Das, co-founder and CEO of Sorcero.

Early commercial prospects help some deep tech start-ups skirt fundraising woes.

While many investors gave into FOMO and took shortcuts in their due diligence, Thomvest leaned into a more careful approach.

IP attorneys are spending lots of time making sure VC-backed start-ups have the freedom to operate and get products to market.

Cautionary tales of governance failures and heightened litigation risk have some VCs rethinking their due diligence processes.

At 29, Dan Chaplin has been promoted three times in five years and now co-leads the London VC firm’s fintech and digital assets segment.

The outsized capital demands of investors in late-stage deals have caused corporate VCs, hedge funds and others to flee VC amid a less alluring risk/return profile as exits dry up.