David Bogoslaw

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.

ChatGPT is grabbing most of the headlines around generative AI, but SineWave Ventures says the real news is about the technology that sits between artificial intelligence models and the apps that users interact with.

The San Francisco firm's third fund has surpassed its $15m target and expects to close in the first half of 2023.

LPs including AP6, Hamilton Lane and Harvard Management Company told the Principles for Responsible Investment that they are looking more carefully at how general partners manage ESG risks internally and within their portfolio companies.

The VC firm hopes to incentivize operators who do not have a fully baked idea but are eager to collaborate with former colleagues to form cohesive teams.

One of the two asset managers to which California Public Employees’ Retirement System allocated a combined $1 billion this week to expand diversity in alternative investment management said venture capital will be a key component of the inaugural fund it is launching with the pension fund’s capital.

Spooked by FTX, more VC firms will bolster their due diligence efforts before investing and insist on increased risk oversight at portfolio companies.