News and Views from across institutional venture capital
May 2026Late on Tuesday night, Sam Altman posted on X that OpenAI had offered to invest $2 million in tokens into every startup in the current Y Combinator batch. Not $2M in cash.
May 2026 The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business, just published its most comprehensive look yet at the state of venture capital. Here
May 2026For decades, ordinary investors largely invested in public companies after they became successful.The biggest wealth creation often happened much earlier in private markets
April 7, 2026Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on April 7. The launch came with an unusual condition: Anthropic said it would not release the model to the general public. I
7 April 2026The UK government has expanded three entrepreneurship tax relief schemes effective 6 April 2026. The changes, introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves at Budget 2025, are
9 April 2026The core fund investing team from Sapphire Partners, the LP investing arm of Sapphire Ventures, is joining LGT Capital Partners' venture capital platform. The move was
March 2026GP stakes as a concept is not new. Minority ownership stakes in fund management companies have existed since the early 2000s, and Goldman Sachs raised the industry's firs
Private credit, also called direct lending, refers to loans made by non-bank institutions directly to companies. The practice has existed for decades but remained relatively niche
March 2026 | Based on McKinsey x IVCA LP Survey, November 2025India has quietly become the most attractive private market destination in Asia-Pacific. In a survey of more than 50 g
Elon Musk launched TeraFab in late March 2026 with $20 billion in initial funding. The stated goal is to manufacture logic chips, memory, and advanced packaging all under one roof,
March 2026The venture capital model is not broken.But it is evolving faster than most people in the industry are willing to say out loud.The structure hasn't changed much:10-year f
26 March 2026The venture capital market is undergoing a structural shift. What was once a broad, rising tide lifting many startups is now splitting into a K-shaped dynamic - where
Stripe's latest valuation of $159bn reflects a deeper shift in how private markets are functioning, how capital is being deployed, and how a small group of companies are increasing
A comprehensive analysis by Macfarlanes (February 2026) lays out the macroeconomic forces shaping private capital markets. Private capital markets enter 2026 in a paradox: deal mom
February 3, 2026In a move that signals the growing maturation of cryptocurrency infrastructure and its acceptance within mainstream finance, Y Combinator-Silicon Valley's most pres
Tuesday, February 3rd wasn't just another down day for tech stocks. It was the moment the market decided AI had crossed another line - from helper to replacement.Anthropic released
The South Korean government, led by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), has introduced a comprehensive 2026 venture investment reform aimed at transforming the nation’s startu
