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Covering venture capital news is really not on the top of my mind right now, but here goes nothing.

1. I’m praying for Trump, and I hope that each of you are doing the same.

2. I’m praying for our country, and I hope that each of you are doing the same.

3. If your voting policy is still somewhere along the lines of “Orange Man bad”, you’ve been brainwashed.

Election Day can’t come soon enough.

TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
The return of crypto VC ⏮

• The return of crypto VC (FT)

• VC might be on the road to recovery—but staffing is not (Pitchbook)

• Most Active Investor Rankings Got Reshuffled In Q2 As VCs Got Busier (Crunchbase)

• Here’s the full list of 28 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024 (TechCrunch)

• The Creator Economy’s AI Tailwind (The Information)

• Google is reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23B (TechCrunch)

• Synapse’s collapse has frozen nearly $160M from fintech users — here’s how it happened (TechCrunch)

• Envestnet fetches $4.5B in take-private deal with Bain Capital (PitchBook)

LINKS

🇺🇸 The Little Tech Agenda: Marc Andreessen believes Little Tech, or startups, plays a critical role in ensuring American technological supremacy and puts his political efforts in to defend it.

👁️ How to Define a Vision for Your Startup?: A vision statement is needed day one, say Shruti Gandhi, that demonstrates your focus on solving a problem or providing a unique value proposition to your customers.

🤷‍♂️ The Myth of “Having It All Figured Out”: We’re all still learning, says Naval.

🔟 10 OOTB Questions to Founder Siva Nadarajah of JOGO Health: JOGO Health continues to innovate in the treatment of chronic pain and neuromuscular disorders with its AI-driven patented technology.

👍 How to Find Good Information: Gurwinder dishes on how he decides what info to consume.

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FUNDS

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RECS

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POLL

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- Clay

RESULTS

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

Do you we will see more or less faith-driven investments over the next five years?

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yes - absolutely ✅ (8)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Meh - I'm not sure 🤷‍♂️ (15)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ No - I don't think so ❌ (8)

31 Votes