3 October 2026 · 9 min
The VC blogs and newsletters worth your inbox
We read 800+ venture capital blogs every week. These are the ones that consistently earn a slot, plus a few we think are underrated.
We read every venture blog we can find. This is what we notice along the way.
We read 800+ venture capital blogs every week. These are the ones that consistently earn a slot, plus a few we think are underrated.
Nearly half the venture blogs in our index are hosted on Medium, and almost none of them still publish. Here's what the data looks like and where everyone went.
The four buckets we sort venture writing into, the 0-10 scale behind them, and the kinds of posts that never make the cut.
We fetched every blog in our index to see which were alive. A third of what we found was surprising, and some of it was our own fault.
The fintech writing we actually open, from bank infrastructure to payments to the parts of insurance nobody covers.
A short reading list for first-time founders, picked from investors who write honestly about how seed rounds actually come together.
We counted a year of posts across 800+ venture blogs. The results are lopsided, and the most prolific names aren't the biggest firms.
Most posts filed as theses are predictions wearing a costume. One sentence separates them.
How to follow a few hundred venture blogs without an inbox full of newsletters, including the feed URLs most sites hide.
Sorting the AI commentary that holds up from the enormous amount that doesn't, with the researchers and investors worth following.
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