David Bogoslaw

Erika Lucas founded VEST Her Ventures to invest in women and BIPOC founders developing products and services for the care economy.

VCs are especially interested in start-ups that will make the energy grid more resilient.

Branch raised a Series C round from Weatherford Capital, SignalFire, Greycroft and other VCs in May 2022.

An accelerating pace of business disruption makes this the right time for the VC firm to bring on its first in-house general counsel.

With venture lending capacity down by as much as two-thirds since the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, revenue scale and company quality will be top of mind for both venture debt and equity capital providers.

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.