📶 The rise of faith-driven investing

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The Wimbledon semis are on right now, so productivity is below average at best.

We’ll keep this one short - here’s what all you missed yesterday.

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TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• ™️ Startups

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
The rise of faith-driven investing ⛪️

• Faith-driven investor Sovereign’s Capital seals $60m for new venture capital fund (AltAssets)

• The typical private equity fund now takes 1.5 years to close (Pitchbook)

• More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as defense tech investment reached $35B (TechCrunch)

• Asia Funding Limps Along, Hits Lowest Level Since 2015 (Crunchbase)

• Digital-Health Venture Investment Rises, but Many Deals Have Yet to Pay Off (WSJ)

• Silicon Valley Wins Few Government Contracts (WSJ)

• Venture Capital Just Hit Quality-Over-Quantity Mode. Here's What That Means for New Founders (Inc)

• U.S. Election is Crypto’s Make-or-Break Moment (The Information)

• Google abandons plans to buy HubSpot (Techstartups)

LINKS

🌞 Act Different: Mike Maples believes pattern-breaking founders don’t just think different; they act different.

🚧 9 Common Mistakes Limited Partners Can Easily Avoid When Investing in Venture Funds: Samir Kaji warns LPs of the common pitfalls of the ebbs and flows of the venture capital landscape.

🤖 How Close is AI to Replacing Product Managers?: Full-time prompt engineer Mike Taylor says it’s closer than you think.

⌛️ Knowing When To Sell: An investor’s job is to deliver liquidity to their LPs, but knowing when to sell is the hard part.

🏁 Starting a Startup: Julian Shapiro offers a handbook with zero fluff that helps tech startup founders improve their product, growth, recruiting and fundraising.

🧑‍💻 Our Buyout Thesis: Yoni Rechtman offers his ideas on software and some of the most important ideas for scaling/deploying software over the next decade.

✅ Playlists: Collections of audio advice from experienced leaders to help you navigate the startup journey, brought to you by Pillar.VC.

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FUNDS

P.S. 👉 If you’re looking to get a new VC job … 

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POLL

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- Clay

RESULTS

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

Will we end the year with lower global venture funding than 2015?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes - I think it will be lower (14)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nope - I'm expecting more funding the back half of the year (14)

28 Votes