Venture Dispatch

Ecosystems

  1. Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works
  2. An a16z partner is leaving to raise $100m for consumer AI
  3. ‘AI is the best thing to ever happen to Airbnb’: Chesky raises the forecast again
  4. ‘Cherry-picking our tenants’: Ooredoo bets $800m on Indonesia’s first AI cloud
  5. WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem
  6. A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
  7. Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day
  8. Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets
  9. Jeff Bezos says stress is a signal to work harder, not a reason to stop
  10. Most accelerators make atartups worse. What do the good ones do?
  11. From Prescription to Ongoing Care: Valendo Health Secures $14.5 Million as Medically Integrated Dispensing Draws Investor Attention
  12. Modi breaks Instagram’s Reel record with 300 million views as student protests sweep India
  13. Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced
  14. Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn
  15. The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet
  16. Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
  17. Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap