John Gannon 
Jeff Stewart backed one of my companies about a decade ago, so it was great to have him on this week to share what he’s been building toward ever since. He’s the founder of GPO Fund, a growth-stage venture firm launched in 2018 with a specific mandate: back growth stage founders who want to expand … Read more
Carta has done 13 acquisitions in 14 years. Four of them happened in the last 15 months. Davis Thacker has personally led or helped lead 11 of those deals. So when I sat down with him to talk M&A strategy, product vision, and where Carta is taking its platform, there was a lot of ground … Read more
Lindsay Kaplan co-founded Chief, built one of the most talked-about communities in tech, and then left to go on a year of soul-searching (and like many founders, angel investing). Coming out of that walkabout was Lindsay joining up with our friends at Bullish as a Venture Partner. In her new role, she’s hunting for “weird” … Read more
Chieh Huang has seen disruption cycles before. As co-founder of Boxed (the bulk shopping app that went public via SPAC), he built a company that employed thousands of warehouse workers. Now he’s betting that AI will trigger the biggest workforce transition in a generation. And he just launched Pelgo to help people land on the … Read more
I spent an hour with vibe coding expert Saadiq Rodgers-King and now I feel like Superman. In the week since that crash course, I’ve shipped multiple internal tools tied to our CRM and email workflows. A year ago, these would have taken me weeks or never shipped at all. Observations so far: What kind of … Read more
This story starts on a Manhattan rooftop at the end of this past summer… This is a Sponsored Feature from Electric. I only write Sponsored Features where I have a genuine personal connection to the story and where there are real lessons for founders, funders, and operators. You can read our Sponsored Feature editorial guidelines … Read more
Thank you for the support this year, whether it was by reading our work, sharing it, or telling a friend about it. That’s why I thought it was important to show you what you contributed to building. So here’s how Venture5 did in 2025, by the numbers … along with some lessons learned! LinkedIn I … Read more
I was at a holiday party on Thursday last week when I heard someone say that media is “the next big thing” in venture capital. Even though I run a media company focused entirely on venture capital … I’m skeptical. You see, the idea that VCs can use content to build an edge isn’t new. This is … Read more
I just wrapped up a conversation with Andrew Pignanelli, co-founder and CEO of The General Intelligence Company of New York. His story of closing an $8.7M seed round from Union Square Ventures is one of the wilder fundraising journeys I’ve heard in a while. Big thanks to Yohei Nakajima, who was a seed investor in … Read more
“Our data science team is bigger than our investment team.” Many VC firms claim they want to be “data-driven” or “AI-native.” But when Melody Koh at NextView shifted from full-time investing to spending 75-80% of her time on data and AI initiatives, she made a prediction: most firms trying to follow suit will give up … Read more
