📬 Your Venture Capital Journal Friday Letter is here: Most companies are experimenting with AI, but few are seeing meaningful financial returns. Click to read more.
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🧠 AI is rapidly changing how venture firms source deals, conduct diligence, and support portfolio companies. At Venture Capital Journal, we’re tracking how leading firms are applying AI across: 🔸Sourcing and market mapping 🔸LP reporting 🔸Fundraising strategy 🔸And much more… The firms building an edge today are going beyond adopting AI tools to operationalize institutional knowledge. Find out how Venture Capital Journal can support your team in doing so: https://okt.to/VZ6ECB #VentureCapitalJournal #MarketInsights
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🌍 Fintech specialist Mouro Capital is opening its platform to outside LPs for the first time after years backed solely by Santander. The firm has already secured a $400 million first close for Fund III from Santander and is now targeting institutional investors and family offices across North America, Latin America and Europe. Mouro says its edge lies in combining independent VC investing with deep financial services expertise and direct access to global banking infrastructure. 🔗 Read more: https://okt.to/dTu4Up #Fintech #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalJournal
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🔥 LP appetite for venture remains active at the institutional level. The Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions approved up to $40 million in commitments to Spark Capital’s latest flagship and growth funds, while also evaluating opportunities with Lowercarbon Capital and emerging manager Spotlight Venture Partners. The move highlights continued demand for both established platforms and next-generation VC managers despite a tougher fundraising backdrop. 🔗 Read more: https://okt.to/xn7XIM #LimitedPartners #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalJournal
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🤖 AI is creating a growing divide in software secondaries. HarbourVest Partners says transactions involving software assets are becoming harder to close as buyers and sellers struggle to price AI disruption risk across SaaS portfolios. The challenge now is determining which businesses emerge stronger from the AI shift, and which become obsolete. 🔗 Read more: https://okt.to/CyLWoe #Secondaries #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalJournal
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🌍 Venture investors are increasingly targeting companies built around long-term societal shifts, from aging demographics to the future of work. New manager Kalos Ventures has closed its debut fund above target at $78.8 million, backing founders focused on workforce, care and education alongside advances in AI, automation and robotics. The firm’s LP base includes ZOMA Capital, GCM Grosvenor, MassMutual, Sorenson Impact Advisory and Pivotal Ventures. 🔗 Read more: https://okt.to/ojKTvL #VentureCapital #ImpactInvesting #VentureCapitalJournal
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Family offices are becoming far more active players in venture capital, and increasingly doing so outside traditional fund structures. From direct investments and co-investments to thematic AI and healthcare bets, family offices are reshaping how venture deals get financed and who controls the capital. New analysis from Ice Miller’s Steven Thayer explores why families are leaning into concentrated, high-conviction venture exposure and what that means for founders and emerging managers. 🔗 Read more: https://okt.to/ujXQWY #VentureCapital #FamilyOffices #VentureCapitalJournal
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🔍 The next AI edge in venture may come after the deal closes. Firms including M13 and TDK Ventures are using AI to help founders rehearse enterprise sales conversations, anticipate customer objections and identify likely future investors before a fundraising process even begins. Our latest VCJ feature explores how venture firms are embedding AI into portfolio support and turning years of institutional knowledge into actionable founder value. Read the article: https://okt.to/FHOuk5 #VentureCapitalJournal #AI
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Final reminder: submit your nomination for the sixth annual Women of Influence in Private Markets list by end of day Tuesday 19 May 2026. Venture capital depends on people who can spot potential early, support companies through uncertainty and help decide where capital flows next. Nominate the women backing founders, supporting portfolio companies, raising funds, advising the market or leading firms across the venture ecosystem. Submit your nomination: https://okt.to/6An8qo