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📶 The new leaders of defense tech investing
a16z, 8VC, and others are the new leads of defense tech investing, VC has a distribution problem, and Bolt is close to raising a massive round of funding
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Let’s get into what all you missed yesterday.
TL;DR:
HEADLINES
The leaders in defense tech investing 🛡
A16z And Founders Fund Lead The Way In Defense Venture Capital (Crunchbase)
Venture capital is full of distribution deadbeats (Axios)
Bolt Near Deal to Raise $450 Million at a $14 Billion Valuation (The Information)
Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity ‘technocapitalist’ school (TechCrunch)
Blackstone Marketing Chief Departs for General Catalyst (WSJ)
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🧐 Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot & Build in Nonobvious Markets: Elad Gil shares 4 principles to help uncover the three types of opportunities that others are overlooking
🌱 Founders’ Edition—What VCs Won’t Tell You About Raising Seed: Pillar VC invited a group of experienced leaders to share their stories, experience, and insider tips about raising a seed round
🦄 Unicorn Founders Tend to be Younger than Average Startup Founder: Study by Stanford GSB reveals unicorn founders under the age of 40 are well represented
📚 All Founder & Startup Resources You’ll Need: Founder Resources bring you the curated content and templates for every step in your startup journey
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📶 22 Best Tools To Generate Leads and Grow Your Revenue: Our list of the best tools to generate leads
TWEET
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Look back at your contact list 10 years ago, unless you're a weirdo you haven't looked them up in forever
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1:25 AM • Aug 19, 2024
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FUNDS
Name | Fund Size | Fund Number |
|---|---|---|
$615m | IX | |
$685m | II | |
$3.15b | I | |
$580m | I | |
$160m | III | |
$1b | IX |
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Are you actively investing in defense tech? |
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- Clay
RESULTS
Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:
What kind of term sheets are you seeing?
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ More founder-friendly 👋 (11)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 More investor-friendly 📶 (21)
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