The VC blogs and newsletters worth your inbox

We track just over 800 venture blogs and newsletters. Last week they produced 97 posts. Maybe 15 were worth anyone's time.

That ratio is the whole reason SandHill exists, and it's also why "best VC blogs" lists usually disappoint: they rank firms by brand rather than by whether anyone there writes something useful on a Tuesday. What follows is the version we'd give a friend, based on what actually survives our weekly cut.

The ones that almost always make it

Stratechery, Ben Thompson's daily. Not venture, strictly, but more investors read it than read most VC blogs. The Monday articles are free.

Tomasz Tunguz publishes nearly every weekday, which should make the quality worse and somehow doesn't. Short, data-led posts about software metrics and, lately, how AI changes them.

Clouded Judgement by Jamin Ball at Altimeter. Friday mornings, public software multiples, consistently the clearest read on what the market is paying for growth.

Not Boring, Packy McCormick. Long. Occasionally too long. But when he picks a company or a sector apart, you understand it afterwards.

First Round Review is the opposite of a hot take factory. They publish less often than they used to, and each piece is an operator interview worked into something you can use.

SaaStr posts constantly. Skim it. Jason Lemkin's pricing and sales-org posts are the reason to subscribe.

Individual investors who still write their own stuff

The firm blog is mostly a marketing channel now. The people below write in the first person and say things their comms team would soften.

Hunter Walk (Homebrew) writes short posts about how seed investing actually works, including the parts that make founders unhappy.

Charles Hudson (Precursor) is unusually candid about the economics of running a small fund.

Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund) writes the most concrete fundraising advice we see anywhere. If you're pre-seed and confused about what a lead actually commits to, start here.

Brad Feld has been at it since 2004 and still posts. The archive alone is worth a weekend.

Union Square Ventures is the rare firm blog that reads like people, not positioning.

Underrated

John Gannon's blog and his VC job board. If you want to work in venture rather than raise from it, this has been the most useful corner of the internet for years, and almost nobody puts it on these lists.

Benedict Evans's Sunday email is a tidy summary of what mattered, with the occasional essay that reframes a whole category.

Contrary Research publishes company and market write-ups at a depth you'd normally pay for.

Bessemer's Atlas is a firm blog that earns its place, mostly on the strength of the benchmark data.

Newcomer, Eric Newcomer's reporting, sits between trade press and analysis and breaks real news.

A note on what we left out

We dropped a few famous names because the feed is dormant. A firm with a 2019 blog archive and nothing since isn't a newsletter, it's a museum. We also skipped the podcast-first shows: a transcript with sponsor reads isn't writing, whatever the show notes claim.

If you'd rather not subscribe to thirty of these, that's the service we run. We read all of them, sort what's worth reading into four buckets, and send one email on Sunday. You can also browse by topic or look through the whole index, which is public.

Think we're missing someone? Send us the feed. We add a handful every month, and people writing seriously about one sector are the easiest additions to say yes to.