📶 Europe VC trends (and charts)

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Good morning 👋

And Happy Thursday.

We’re nearly a week into the Olympics, and I still haven’t watched a single event. Maybe that changes (doubtful), but only time will tell.

Switching gears - here are the biggest headlines you missed from yesterday.

TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• ™️ Startups

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
What’s going on in Europe? 🇪🇺

• Improving fortunes: Q2 2024 European VC trends in 5 charts (Pitchbook)

• A Robust Seed Market Creates Its Own Dilemmas In A Slower Funding Market (Crunchbase)

• Flo Health Lands $200M As Women’s Health Funding Holds Strong (Crunchbase)

• Moxxie Ventures, led by ex-Twitter media head, raises $95M third fund (TechCrunch)

• Tiger Global partner Alex Cook to leave firm, sources say (TechCrunch)

• OpenAI releases ChatGPT’s hyperrealistic voice to some paying users (TechCrunch)

• Tezi is building an AI agent for hiring managers (TechCrunch)

• SEC charges BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji with fraud; says proceeds paid for L.A. mansion, gifts (TechCrunch)

• Morgan Stanley Moves Forward on Homegrown AI (WSJ)

• Preparing for the Next Worldwide Tech Outage (WSJ)

• It’s Time for AI to Start Making Money for Businesses. Can It? (WSJ)

• AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (FT)

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LINKS

📋 Things I Don’t Know About AI: Elad Gil has a list of questions and some thoughts on the AI markets.

🔋 Why Did the U.S. Miss the Battery Revolution?: We were early to the party on every other technological revolution, but we missed this one.

💰 How Should You Monetize Your AI Features?: What can we learn from the monetization strategies of leading tech companies, including GitHub, Zapier, Adobe, Loom and Microsoft.

🧑‍🦯 Tech’s Return to Meritocracy: We should accept that inequality is the natural state of the world, and any program meant to equalize outcomes is dead on arrival.

👌 The Ideal Founder’s Background: Exploring the personalities, ages and genders of successful entrepreneurs, according to Learning VC.

📶 25 Lessons from David Sacks: Mental models from the Craft Ventures GP

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POLL

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RESULTS

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

Do you regularly listen to podcasts? 🎧

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes - every day (11)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yes - maybe once a week (6)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes - but only maybe once a month (11)

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nope - never (6)

34 Votes