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📶 generative AI seed funding falls of a cliff
Greylock hires a new partner, Monzo becomes profitable, Spotify increases prices, and Anthropic becomes more flexible
Good morning 👋
And happy Tuesday.
12 months ago, every VC was making bold claims about generative AI. Fast forward to today, and the sentiment has changed pretty dramatically.
Pitchbook goes into more depth on gen AI funding along with more stories in this week’s piece.
Let’s get into it.
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TL;DR:
HEADLINES
Generative AI seed funding falls off a cliff 📉
Generative AI seed funding drops 76% as investors take wait-and-see approach (Pitchbook)
Greylock Hires Partner to Invest in Israeli Startups (The Information)
VC-backed challenger bank Monzo swings to profitability (Pitchbook)
Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads (TechCrunch)
Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month (TechCrunch)
Anthropic’s Claude AI now autonomously interacts with external data and tools (Venturebeat)
Bessemer promotes Li to VP (Venture Capital Journal)
Private capital has raised more money than it has returned (Financial Times)
AMD Unveils Latest AI Chips, Accelerated Chip Update Timeline (WSJ)
LINKS
💪 How to Take Bigger, Bolder Product Bets: Lessons from Slack’s Chief Product Officer
🎗️Your Startup is a Movement: How founders should think about marketing
🥇 Why Winners Keep Winning: How those who start with an advantage relative to others can retain that advantage over long periods of time
👨💻 Technological shifts often enable new entrants to displace incumbents: So whether we like it or not, our default assumption should be that this is the new order of things.
📏 Why Consumer Product Metrics are all Terrible: I’ve never met an entrepreneur who’s happy with their metrics.
🤝 How to Become Insanely Well-Connected: Here's how the long-time First Round Partner, Chris Fralic, has methodically built bonds spanning years and careers.
👂 The Art of Listening to Customers: A guide to help founders understand how to conduct customer discovery.
🧭 Confluence.VC Navigator: Our internal navigator tool to help readers find what they’re looking for
TWEET
In the absence of strong convictions about what you want from life, you will always default to wanting more money.
— Jack Raines (@Jack_Raines)
1:20 PM • May 23, 2024
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FUNDS
Name | Fund Size | Fund Number |
|---|---|---|
$403m | I | |
$3b | XII | |
$574.3m | III | |
$6.7b | V | |
$305m | II | |
$900m | IV |
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RESULTS
Here are the results from our poll question in last week’s piece:
What is your investment appetite towards AI SPV deals?
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Send them my way - I'm actively writing checks (13)
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ I've seen a lot and will still invest in a few (10)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It's a bubble - I'm not touching anything (15)
38 Votes
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