David Bogoslaw

By giving entrepreneurs permission to work on themselves and covering the cost for the first year, the firm expects to minimize start-up failures that often result from burnout and co-founder disputes.

The UK-based firm has achieved returns ranging from 1.9x to 16.1x for venture-backed companies that generate at least 20 percent of their revenue in the US.

The Los Angeles-based firm just closed on $40 million for its debut fund, with commitments from Bank of America, 301 INC, Illumen Capital's Catalyst Fund, JP Morgan Asset Management, MassMutual and the Illinois Growth and Innovation Fund.

Using Michael Sonnenfeldt's TIGER 21 network, the New York-based VC firm is introducing start-ups to additional investors and strategic industry contacts who can support their go-to-market efforts.

Richard Blakesley is using AI to vet investments for the Boost Fund, noting that 'the early-stage fundraising process is plagued by bias of all sorts: expert bias, pattern-recognition bias, network bias and so forth.'

AI and machine learning are helping companies target highly relevant candidates and expedite conversations.

The founder of SineWave Ventures believes adversity may be a better term than diversity to describe the character traits that can lead to better investment outcomes.

Paying for expenses while fundraising, networking events and fund pitch sessions are just some of the ways the LPs are helping to overcome the disparity.

Sharp declines in funding for transportation, energy and food and land use sectors drove overall weakness in later-stage funding for climate tech in the first six months of 2023.

A former US diplomat and a Ukrainian PhD are an unlikely pairing, but their shared obsession with finding great founders has helped them generate a 70 percent IRR for their debut fund.