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Top Headlines 🚨
EU and US to work together on AI guidelines 🤖 [Science Business]
New study of unicorn founders finds most are ‘underdogs,’ and female founders are rising 🦄 [TechCrunch]
Investors in talks to help Elon Musk's xAI raise $3 billion, WSJ reports 💰 [Reuters]
Fintech funding slows to the lowest level since 2017 📉 [TechCrunch]
Serena Williams Has Invested In 14 Companies That Have Gone On To Reach Unicorn Status, A Value Of $1B Or More 🎾 [AFROTECH]
Tiger Global closes $2.2bn fund well below its original target 🔽 [Financial Times]
DCVC wanted to raise $500M for its first climate fund, but the market had other plans 🚫 [TechCrunch]
Obsidian Therapeutics Raises $160.5M in Series C Funding 🔬 [FinSMEs]
In-Depth Insights 🔍
YC's Secret SAFE 📜 [Law of VC, Chris Harvey]
The startup fundraising squeeze could persist as VCs struggle to refill their own coffers 🔒 [TechCrunch]
The Concept That Explains Everything About Marketplaces 🛒 [Dan Hockenmaier]
Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google 🔍 [The Verge]
The top AI companies in 2024 🏆 [CB Insights]
VC optimism returns for 2024. After pulling back in 2023, venture capitalists (especially established fund managers) expect to dial up their capital deployment this year, according to a new survey 📅 [AXIOS, Kia Kokalitcheva]
SaaS Benchmarks. Q1 2024 is over. Is the worst finally behind us? 🤞 [Sofia Faustino, ChartMogul]
Interesting Reports 📊
Web3 Fundamentals 📚 [Bertelsmann Investments, Martin El-Khouri, Celine Schröder]
2024 Climate Risk Landscape Report 🌍 [United Nations]
Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing 💥 [Harvard Business School, William Janeway, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf]
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Upcoming Events 📅
I want to shout out the first Data-Driven VC Summit, organized by Dr. Andre Retterath, Partner at Earlybird. It’s on May 5-8th, and 20+ speakers will be present from leading institutions like Lightspeed, ICONIQ, EQT, Moonfire, Stanford, UCL, and more. Details are here.
Startup Competition - RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris | Apr 8
GP/LP Roundtable: State of European VC Fundraising | Remote | Apr 10
The AI Rabbit Hole | San Francisco | Apr 19
SF Climate Week | San Francisco | Apr 21-27
On building a $1B company with a small team | Toronto | Apr 29
How To Run A Pilot: Skan.AI | Remote | Apr 16
AI Conference for Founders and Business Leaders | Remote | Apr 19
Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners | Boston | Apr 20
AVPN Global Conference 2024 | Abu Dhabi | Apr 23-25
VC Platform - Global Summit ‘24 | New York | Apr 24-26
Investing in Tomorrow - Advancing Technology & Society | San Jose, California | Apr 25
EU-Startups Summit | Malta | May 9-10
0100 Conference CEE 2024 | Prague | May 14-16
Plug and Play Italy Summit 2024 | Milan | May 16
Tech Fest 2024 | Toronto | May 20-24
Global Fashion Summit | Copenhagen | May 21-23
The LP/VC relations event | Vienna | Jun 1-6
Silicon Valley Summit 2024 | Jun 11-13
Super Climate | New York | Sep 24
sifted summit | London | Oct 2-3