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All money is not created equal: What raising venture debt looks like

David Spreng Contributor Share on Twitter David Spreng is a seasoned venture and growth debt lender with 30 years of experience, the founder and CEO of Runway Growth Capital, and the author of All Money Is Not Created Equal. The … Continue reading

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Designers sue Shein over AI ripoffs of their work

A group of designers are suing Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion firm reportedly valued at $66 billion, for allegedly stealing independent artists’ works “over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering.” The designers — Krista … Continue reading

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Reddit is killing its Gold awards system

After triggering protests over its API changes, Reddit is making another change that is angering its users, as the company announced that it’s sunsetting its coins and awards system. Although the platform says it’s working on a new rewards system, … Continue reading

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The bittersweet tale of two seed markets

Venture funding has been declining since the first quarter of 2022. But that trend has largely spared the seed stage until now. Or has it? Q2 apparently was quite rough for seed deals, according to new data from PitchBook. Startups … Continue reading

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Workers that made ChatGPT less harmful ask lawmakers to stem alleged exploitation by Big Tech

Kenyan workers who helped remove harmful content on ChatGPT, OpenAI’s smart search engine that generates content based on user prompts, have filed a petition before the country’s lawmakers calling them to launch investigations on big tech outsourcing content moderation and … Continue reading

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Pitch Deck Teardown: GoodBuy Gear’s $5M Series A extension deck

They grow up so fast. Babies, toddlers and kids will grow out of literally everything you get for them, probably well before it wears out. And then what do you do with the cots, car seats, strollers and toys? That’s … Continue reading

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We’re in the pruning phase of tech layoffs

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It’s time to lean back, my friends, and take a look at the week that we just had. … Continue reading

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Crypto winter is showing market maturity compared to previous downturns, Electric Capital GP says

Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast that unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news in crypto with some of the biggest names in the industry to break things down block by block for the crypto … Continue reading

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On-prem data centers are hanging in, but cloud capacity is growing much faster

In 2017, on-prem data centers accounted for nearly 60% of capacity. By 2027, Synergy Research is projecting that number will be cut in half, but that data doesn’t tell the whole story. New research from Synergy finds that on-prem data … Continue reading

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VC Office Hours: How this venture thesis aims to improve tech for women

Naseem Sayani launched Emmeline Ventures in January 2022 with two missions: to help back more women founders, and to hire more women and people of color as decision-making fund managers. She is part of the increasing number of women and … Continue reading

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