The Future of Venture & Tech

Astro Mechanica Raising $250M to Power Data Centers With Jet Engines

Inside FORE Enterprise: How Commercial Real Estate's “Smartest Dumb Person in the Room” Learned to Build the Room First

Inside Katalyze AI: How Reza Farahani Is Rebuilding the Path From Molecule to Market

Inside Visible Ventures: How Lori Cashman and Carolyn Everson Are Betting on Gen Z

Visible Ventures founder Lori Cashman and thought partner Carolyn Everson on backing Gen Z, coaching founders, and why they think most of venture capital is misjudging AI and each other.

Inside Vesta Home: How Julian Buckner Built America's Largest Luxury Home Staging Company

Julian Buckner founded Vesta Home over a decade ago, growing it into the largest luxury home staging, interior design, and custom furniture company in the U.S.

What Poppi's $1.95B Exit Says About Where Beverage Dollars Are Headed

A single-digit share of the market is driving nearly a third of its growth. That's the gap investors should be watching in the beverage sector right now. Functional sodas account for only about 6% of total U.S. beverage volume, yet they're generating nearly 27% of the category's growth. When a small slice of a market accounts for an outsized share of expansion, that's usually where the next wave of capital goes.

Fifth Wall Leads $5M Seed in One Raven to Take the Smart Home Off the Cloud

Fifth Wall led a $5M seed round in One Raven, the local-first smart home startup from SmartRent's founders that keeps home intelligence and data on the home network with no cloud or subscriptions.

fomo Raises $75 Million Series B to Build the World’s Largest Trading Platform

fomo, a social trading platform betting that "the future of social is going to be financially driven," has raised a $75 million Series B led by Index Ventures, joined by Union Square Ventures and existing backer Benchmark — a round the company says it wasn't even seeking, having more cash on hand than it's ever raised. In roughly a year, fomo has grown to nearly 650,000 users and $20–40 million in daily trading volume, driven largely by a leaderboard-fueled social graph where traders build public followings around their results rather than content.

Fifth Wall Backs Higharc’s $95M Series C As AI Pushes Deeper Into Homebuilding

Fifth Wall has backed Higharc’s $95 million Series C, joining a major investor group supporting the Durham-based AI homebuilding platform. Founded by Marc Minor, Michael Bergin, and others, Higharc helps builders generate homes as 3D spatial data, streamlining design, estimating, sales, and construction. For Brendan Wallace and Fifth Wall, the investment reinforces a broader thesis around bringing AI and software deeper into the built world.

Gutter Capital Raises $75M Fund III As It Expands Its Hands-On Accelerator Model In New York

Gutter Capital, founded by Dan Teran and James Gettinger, has closed its $75 million Fund III and launched the Elbow Grease accelerator for early-stage founders, emphasizing concentrated investment

How 8VC’s Alex Kolicich Is Building a Craft Firm in an Era of Mega Funds

8VC founding partner and CIO Alex Kolicich believes AI is not overhyped, but underhyped. In a conversation with TradedVC, he explains why AI-native startups are entering the best fundraising market in history, how venture is splitting between mega platforms and boutique craft firms, and why 8VC is backing founders building at the edge of agentic AI, defense, biotech, and the real economy.

"Other People's Fun Is Our Business": Inside Best Nights VC, Jägermeister's Bet on the Future of Nightlife

Lorrain de Silva runs Jägermeister’s venture arm with one filter: online-to-offline, or nothing. Four years and 120 million “best nights” later, the bet is paying off.