We curate most relevant posts about Venture Capital on LinkedIn and regularly share key takeaways. This edition provides a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary venture capital landscape, offering insights for both founders and investors. Several posts focus on fundraising strategy for founders, stressing the need to move beyond cold applications through networking and personalized outreach, understanding VC scoring criteria, and recognizing the different “games” to play (e.g., bootstrapping versus hyperscaling). For investors, the material details fund mechanics and strategies, including the challenges of small fund construction, the preference for smaller funds due to the power law, and the difficulties faced by early-stage crypto VCs. A dominant theme across multiple reports is the massive surge in AI investment globally and in regions like Europe and MENA, which is driving premium valuations and rapid deal speeds, while other posts emphasize the importance of due diligence and avoiding unfavorable deal terms like “participating preferred” to protect founder equity. This podcast was created via Google Notebook LM.