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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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.
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Peter Thiel’s Firm Signs Miami’s Most Expensive Office Lease at 830 Brickell
Thiel Capital leased 18,158 sq ft on the 44th floor of 830 Brickell for $250/sq ft, totaling ~$4.5M annually, setting a record for Miami office rents
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FLF Venture Summit 2026: How Tampa Became the Southeast’s Venture Capital Hub for a Day
On February 26, 2026, Florida Funders (FLF) hosted its annual Venture Summit at The Motor Enclave in Tampa, convening top founders, investors, athletes, and defense leaders for an invite-only day of programming. Speakers included Mayor Francis Suarez, NFL pro and active investor Braxton Berrios, Betr founder Joey Levy, FLF Managing Partner Saxon Baum, Carta's Peter Walker, Palantir's Dave Spirk, retired four-star General Tony Thomas, and Stanford founder-investors Geoffrey Woo and Rohan Shah. With ~$300M AUM, 110+ portfolio companies, and a recent rebrand signaling national ambitions, FLF used the Summit to stake its claim as the structural winner of Southeast venture. TradedVC served as the official media partner and captured sidewalk interviews with several of the day's headline voices.
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From Six Failed Ideas to 20 Million Users: How Krish Ramineni Built Fireflies.ai Into a Profitable AI Powerhouse Without Burning Venture Capital
Six failed startups, zero marketing spend, and a billion-dollar AI company built on $14 million. The story of Fireflies.ai
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Inside Israel Tech Week: The Founders Building Miami's Bridge to Startup Nation
Ayal Stern and Lior Halabi on resilience, the Israeli founder archetype, and why Miami is becoming the most strategic platform for Israeli tech outside of Tel Aviv. A TradedVC Interview for Israel Tech Week
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