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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

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Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. The recurring second wave of innovation.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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How has corporate venture capital changed? Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment.

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Lowercarbon Capital and Gradient Ventures Invest $9M in Quilt for Advanced Residential Heat Pump System

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The company’s mission to reduce home-based fossil fuel dependency has attracted additional support from Incite Ventures, MCJ Collective, Garage Capital, Climate Capital, and Spacecadet. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

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CoreWeave today announced that it raised $221 million in a Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital with participation from Nvidia, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross. Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross. billion and $26.28

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Venture capital funding may have slowed, but VC firms have no problems raising new funds

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As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn?

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With capital aplenty, modern corporate investors marry financial and strategic goals

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The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. But it’s not a pure venture capital story.

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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

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The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents.

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