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A tidal wave of fast-growing AI startups has given venture capitalists many more shots to score winning investments. But competition to invest has never been more intense. That has made the partners who can secure stakes in sought-after startups all the more valuable.
The Information asked over two dozen founders and investors about the individuals best positioned to become general partners—the top dealmakers who usually get the biggest share of a venture firm’s returns. Our list is composed of 15 venture.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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New Gallup data claims AI usage is at an all-time high, with productivity gains the main boost. Read more ›
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Online shoe and apparel company Allbirds nearly went bankrupt, but now it's reemerging as an AI company that will sell you some GPU space. But what's really going on here? Read more ›
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Prosecutors allege that Stefan Pildes, the president of the raucous annual SantaCon event, misused charity funds to fund a luxury lifestyle. Read more ›
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ESPN's Jimmy Pitaro addressed staff in a memo after the latest round of layoffs at Disney, and the first under Disney's new CEO Josh D'Amaro. Read more ›
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YouTube's time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes. The feature was expanded in January to give […] Read more ›
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The Tron founder claimed that dissenters would face token lockups and exclusion from voting, while the project said the proposal aims to align all participants for the long-run. Read more ›
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Amid wide speculation that United may want to do a mega-merger with American, Delta says it sees more consolidation happening among struggling carriers. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is still trying to expunge the last traces of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. What happened? On Tuesday, […] Read more ›
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Tom Rhys Harries stars as the Batman villain in the new film arriving October 23. Read more ›
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In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's heavily subsidized auto industry has enough excess capacity to supply the entire U.S. market, while also raising serious cybersecurity concerns given how much data modern connected cars collect. Ars Technica reports: "First of all, the Chinese have huge direct support for their... Read more ›
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ChatGPT can make a child’s rough animal drawings into photorealistic creatures without altering them. Read more ›
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It’s Wednesday, April 15, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight a clear shift toward AI infrastructure, agentic systems, next-generation therapeutics, and space-based intelligence. As capital continues to concentrate around platforms that ... Read more ›
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After Val Kilmer died, the director of "As Deep as the Grave" generated his performance with AI with the blessing of Kilmer's family. Watch the trailer. Read more ›
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Apple's MacBook Neo is a $600 (or $500 for students) shot across the bow at affordable Windows laptops, and it seems like Microsoft has ready its first response. The newly announced "Microsoft College Offer" is a bundle of Microsoft 365 Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, custom Xbox controller and discounted laptop that the company thinks could woo students away from Apple's new deal. With the purchase of a discounted machine... Read more ›
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Meta has hired another founding engineer from Thinking Machines Lab as the AI talent wars intensify. The startup is still rapidly expanding. Read more ›
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Asia attracted international travelers in 2025 with relaxed entry rules and hefty marketing budgets. The U.S. took a different approach. Read more ›
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Google's Gemini has arrived on Mac as a native app, free, feature-packed, and accessible with a single keyboard shortcut, beating Apple's long-delayed Siri overhaul Read more ›
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As investors fret that AI startups will gobble up the business of established software companies, a top executive from Workday has jumped ship for Anthropic. Peter Bailis, who joined the human resources software giant provider Workday last May as its chief technology officer, left last month and ... Read more ›
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected Anthropic’s motion to halt the Department of Defense’s blacklisting of the company while Anthropic challenges the designation in court. The ruling from the circuit court in Washington, D.C., sets up split decisions in Anthropic’s two lawsuits ... Read more ›
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Guess what: Meta Platforms is still in the AI model game. You might have forgotten that fact, given that it’s been a little while since we’ve seen much new on the AI front from the Facebook owner. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Threads on Wednesday to reveal the new model family, known as Muse, and its first member, Spark. Meta stock jumped 6.5% on the news, although the market... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group has anonymously released a new AI video generation model called HappyHorse-1.0, which rose to the top of an AI model leaderboard and attracted a lot of attention on social media, according to two people with knowledge of Alibaba’s involvement. The new video model is the Chinese ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s advertising effort is so new that the company is still working out the kinks in it. That hasn’t stopped it from setting ambitious aims for the business, which it expects to become the largest driver of its revenue by the end of the decade. OpenAI expects advertising to generate about $2.4 billion in revenue this year and to quadruple next year, to nearly $11 billion, according to financial forecasts... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ Wednesday release of Spark, the first model in its broader Muse model family, doesn’t blow other frontier models out of the water, according to developers and researchers I talked to. But at least puts the company back in the AI conversation. The model is already powering the Meta AI app and website but it’ll take some time to roll out to Meta’s social media apps like WhatsApp, Instagram... Read more ›
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Tesla is considering building a new SUV that would be smaller and cheaper than its current vehicle models, Reuters reported on Thursday. The vehicle is under early development and would initially be produced at Tesla’s factory in Shanghai if the company decides to move forward with production, ... Read more ›
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Unilever said Thursday that it will acquire gummy supplement startup Grüns, marking the latest acquisition of a fast-growing, wellness-focused startup by a large consumer company. Grüns, which was founded in 2023 by former private equity investor Chad Janis, was valued at $500 million last year ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has agreed to spend an additional $21 billion renting artificial intelligence chips from cloud provider CoreWeave from 2027 through 2032, bringing its total potential spending on CoreWeave to $35 billion. The latest commitment is on top of an earlier deal Meta had to spend $14 ... Read more ›
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Amazon’s chip business has reached an annual revenue run rate of more than $20 billion, CEO Andy Jassy said on Thursday in his annual shareholder letter, up from the more than $10 billion Jassy disclosed on an analyst call in February. Amazon sells access to standard Graviton CPU chips as ... Read more ›
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