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TAP Angel Partners bets on the work between funding rounds
The Korean accelerator puts specialists, corporate partners and public programs around young companies. Its proposition is simple: help founders get the next piece of the business working.
Globalive sold WIND for C$1.6 billion. Then it kept building.
Anthony Lacavera’s investment company turned a bruising telecom adventure into a business-building practice. Its next tests run from a Canadian bank to a mobile network in Bermuda.
High Alpha Wants to Make Starting Up Less of a Solo Act
The Indianapolis venture firm pairs startup builders with investment capital. Its $125 million fourth fund puts a decade of company-making experience behind a deceptively simple bet: founders can move faster with a team already beside them.
Pareto Holdings puts its own money where the startups are
The company builder born in Miami runs on personal capital and an appetite for getting involved early. Its freedom comes with a very practical question: how much of tomorrow’s winner can it afford to keep?
super{set} Is Building the Boring Part of the AI Boom
The San Francisco studio has $176 million in committed capital, a $200 million exit and a contrarian wager: in enterprise AI, the useful plumbing may matter more than the flashy model.
The $3.1 Billion Software Investor You Rarely Hear About
JMI Equity spent three decades becoming a software specialist while staying mostly out of the spotlight. Its pitch is simple: flexible capital, operating help, and enough pattern recognition to turn a proven product into a durable company.
Nobody Studios Wants to Make Startups Feel Less Like Lightning Strikes - and More Like a Production Line
The California venture studio is trying to turn company creation into a repeatable discipline. Its wager is that AI, a distributed crowd and ruthless early validation can make the startup lottery a little less random.
Persist Is Running Founder Auditions With Real Startups on the Line
The Los Angeles venture studio does not ask would-be founders for another pitch deck. It asks them to build - then uses salary, equity and a shared operating bench to turn the strongest prototypes into companies.
The VC Firm Selling Founders Something Rarer Than Money: A Shortcut to the Right Room
Notable Capital inherited a 25-year investing record, then made a sharper promise: the check is only the opening move. Its real pitch is access - to hires, buyers, operators, and the hard-won pattern recognition that can move a young company faster.
The $100 Million Fund That Thinks Venture Capital Needs a Workshop
Baukunst writes the first check, then pulls up a workbench. Its experiment is to make a venture fund behave more like a living studio - one where founders, engineers, designers and operators build in public with one another.
The Alabama Studio That Builds Companies From Problems, Not Pitch Decks
Shegun Otulana already had his billion-dollar exit. Then he stayed in Birmingham to build a factory for the next ones.