📶 AI is keeping venture afloat

2024 valuations by vertical, Hebbia raises a huge round from a 16z, GPs are cooking up a PE exit recovery plan, and Sequoia's former China unit raises a $2.5b fund

July 09, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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Yesterday we ran a poll asking what types of funds you would invest in if you were an LP.

The most popular answer?

“Not touching venture investing (only looking at other asset classes)”.

Yikes - stay safe out there.

Let’s get into what you missed yesterday.

TL;DR:

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AI is keeping venture afloat 🚢

  • How AI is driving the venture capital market (Axios)

  • Startups Merge In Spaces Where Funding Has Fallen (Crunchbase)

  • AI Startup Hebbia Locks Up $130M Series B Led By a16z (Crunchbase)

  • GPs are cooking up a PE exit recovery (Pitchbook)

  • Artificial Intelligence Boom Lifts Paychecks for CIOs (WSJ)

  • Sequoia Capital’s former China unit raises new $2.5bn start-up fund (FT)

  • Industry Ventures closes latest hybrid fund amid VC secondaries uptick (Venture Capital Journal)

  • Revolut billionaire Nik Storonsky is set for a 9-figure payday as part of upcoming $500 million share sale (Fortune)

  • OpenAI’s China Ban Doesn’t Apply to Microsoft’s Azure China (The Information)

  • After a 10-Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned (Wired)

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FUNDS

Name

Fund Size

Fund Number

Ardian

$3.2b

VI

Freeflow Ventures

$15m

I

Freeflow Ventures

$35m

II

KLAR Partners

$943,167,000

II

Blackhorn Ventures

$150m

III

Curie.Bio

$380m

II

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Which vertical has the most opportunity ahead?

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RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:

If you were to invest as an LP into funds, which of the following would you choose to invest in?

 

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ ⭐️ Tier 1 established names (Sequoia, Benchmark, Founders Fund, etc.) (10)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🔎 Spinouts (ex-partners from tier 1 funds) (2)

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 📈 Emerging managers (under-the-radar managers with unique deal flow and strategies) (10)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ❌ Not touching venture investing (only looking at other asset classes) (12)

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