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Europe's Pension Capital Could Become a Turning Point for Venture Capital - But the Details Matter

8 July 2026 Europe has no shortage of ambition when it comes to building globally competitive companies in AI, deep tech, defence, climate, health, and advanced manufacturing. The harder question has always been whether the domestic capital

Team S2 days ago1 min

OpenAI Just Offered $2M in Tokens to the Current YC Batch. Welcome to Compute-for-Equity.

Team S21 days ago10 min

What the World Economic Forum's 2026 Venture Capital Report Tells Us About Where Private Markets Are Heading

Praveen Paranjothi27 days ago5 min

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How Robinhood's Venture Fund Works - And Why It Changes Investing
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May 2026For decades, ordinary investors largely invested in public companies after they became successful.The biggest wealth creation often happened much earlie
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Claude Mythos: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It Rattled Wall Street
Praveen Paranjothi
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 t
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UK Expands EMI, EIS and VCT Tax Relief Schemes for Startups and Scale-ups
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7 April 2026The UK government has expanded three entrepreneurship tax relief schemes effective 6 April 2026. The changes, introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves
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Sapphire Partners Funds Team Joins LGT Capital Partners Venture Platform
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9 April 2026The core fund investing team from Sapphire Partners, the LP investing arm of Sapphire Ventures, is joining LGT Capital Partners' venture capital pla
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Owning the Manager, Not Just the Fund: How Sovereign Capital Is Reshaping Private Markets from the Inside
Praveen Paranjothi
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
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Private Credit: What It Is, How It Grew, and Where It Stands Today
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Private credit, also called direct lending, refers to loans made by non-bank institutions directly to companies. The practice has existed for decades but remain
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India's Private Markets: What Global LPs Actually Think (McKinsey - IVCA)
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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 surv
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Musk's TeraFab Could Cost $5 Trillion. Here's Why That Number Is Almost Certainly Right.
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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
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The VC Model Isn't Broken. But It's Operating Under More Extreme Conditions.
Praveen Paranjothi
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 ch
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The K-Shaped Venture Market: Why Capital Is Concentrating - and What to Do About It
Praveen Paranjothi
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-sha
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Stripe’s $159bn valuation: what is driving it, who is backing it, and why capital is concentrating
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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 comp
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Private Capital in 2026: Navigating Divergence, AI Risk, and the New Liquidity Playbook
Praveen Paranjothi
A comprehensive analysis by Macfarlanes (February 2026) lays out the macroeconomic forces shaping private capital markets. Private capital markets enter 2026 in
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Why Is Y Combinator Offering $500K in Stablecoins Instead of Cash? Here's What You Need to Know
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February 3, 2026In a move that signals the growing maturation of cryptocurrency infrastructure and its acceptance within mainstream finance, Y Combinator-Silico
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Thank Anthropic for negative $285 Billion : What Tuesday's Market Selloff Means for VC Investors
Praveen Paranjothi
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 replacemen
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South Korea Unveils 2026 Venture Investment Reform to Unlock Private Capital and Fuel Growth
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The South Korean government, led by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), has introduced a comprehensive 2026 venture investment reform aimed at transforming
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Insights from Partners Group Private Markets Outlook 2026
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Partners Group published Private Markets outlook 2026. We are summarising the TL;DR key insights from the report for a quick reference with relevant actions.Pri
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Highlights of the "State of Enterprise AI Report from OpenAI"
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Enterprise AI adoption is scaling fast and embedding into day-to-day work. Over the past year, weekly ChatGPT Enterprise messages grew about 8x, with average wo

Europe's Pension Capital Could Become a Turning Point for Venture Capital - But the Details Matter

OpenAI Just Offered $2M in Tokens to the Current YC Batch. Welcome to Compute-for-Equity.

What the World Economic Forum's 2026 Venture Capital Report Tells Us About Where Private Markets Are Heading

How Robinhood's Venture Fund Works - And Why It Changes Investing

Claude Mythos: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It Rattled Wall Street

UK Expands EMI, EIS and VCT Tax Relief Schemes for Startups and Scale-ups

Sapphire Partners Funds Team Joins LGT Capital Partners Venture Platform

Owning the Manager, Not Just the Fund: How Sovereign Capital Is Reshaping Private Markets from the Inside

Private Credit: What It Is, How It Grew, and Where It Stands Today

India's Private Markets: What Global LPs Actually Think (McKinsey - IVCA)

Musk's TeraFab Could Cost $5 Trillion. Here's Why That Number Is Almost Certainly Right.

The VC Model Isn't Broken. But It's Operating Under More Extreme Conditions.

The K-Shaped Venture Market: Why Capital Is Concentrating - and What to Do About It

Stripe’s $159bn valuation: what is driving it, who is backing it, and why capital is concentrating

Private Capital in 2026: Navigating Divergence, AI Risk, and the New Liquidity Playbook

Why Is Y Combinator Offering $500K in Stablecoins Instead of Cash? Here's What You Need to Know

Thank Anthropic for negative $285 Billion : What Tuesday's Market Selloff Means for VC Investors

South Korea Unveils 2026 Venture Investment Reform to Unlock Private Capital and Fuel Growth

Insights from Partners Group Private Markets Outlook 2026

Highlights of the "State of Enterprise AI Report from OpenAI"