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You Let AI Help Build Your Product. Can You Still Own It?

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Investing in Avante

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Dispatch from the Desert: Human[X], Robotics, and the AI Power Shuffle

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Early-Stage Hiring, Decoded: What 60 Seattle Startups Told Us

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Booming: An Inside Look at Seattle's AI Startup Scene

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Stash Your Cash: Stifel Bank’s Minh Le on Startup Banking

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Token Talk: Open source won the AI race

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Meet Nazuk Thakkar, the Ripple Investor Who Lifts up Young Founders

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Token Talk: Decentralizing AI Compute for Scalable Intelligence

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Mapping Seattle's Enterprise AI Startups

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Meet Tyler Churchill: From CAA to finding Startup Talent in Seattle for Bonfire Ventures

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Getting Unstuck: Insights from Dave Hersh, Founder of Jive Software, Turnaround Expert

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Mapping Seattle's Active Venture Firms

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PHOTOS: Founders Bash 2024

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VC for the rest of us: A big tech employee’s guide to becoming startup advisors

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Meet TX Zhuo, the LA VC Who Built a Company Without Raising Capital—and Now Invests in Seed-Stage Startups

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Event Recap: Valley VCs Love Seattle Startups

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Meet Vivek Ladsariya: The new PSL VC Bridging the Valley with Seattle

July 29, 2024

Kirby's mental model for pre-seed investing

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The Art of Stepping Away: Insights from Court Lorenzini, Founder of DocuSign 

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VC for the rest of us: The ultimate guide to investing in venture capital funds for tech employees

June 12, 2024

Ascend welcomes new analyst Thomas Stahura

June 07, 2024

Meet Sunil Nagaraj: The Bay Area VC Nerding Out on ‘Software Beyond the Screen’

May 09, 2024

Navigating M&A: Insights from Priti Choksi, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners

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Jen Haller's Bias for Action

March 28, 2024

Meet Daniel Paredes: From Seattle Roots to NYC Investor with Sierra Ventures

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How the pursuit of exceptional people landed this New York VC in Seattle

February 28, 2024

Mapping the Emerald City’s Growing AI Dominance

February 19, 2024

Navigating Early-Stage Investment: Insights and Strategies from Aditya Naganath, Principal Investor at Kleiner Perkins

February 04, 2024

SaaS 3.0: Why the Software Business Model Will Continue to Thrive in the Age of In-House AI Development

January 29, 2024

Best Practices for Requesting Warm Intros From Your Investors

January 04, 2024

Seattle VC Profile: Matt Wang

October 12, 2023

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Seattle VC Profile: Colin Tobias

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Seattle VC Profile: James Wu, First Round

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Seattle VC Profile: Dennis Joyce, Tacoma Venture Fund

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Ascend Founder Profile: Curtis Fonger - Whalesync

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Portland VC Profile: Julie Harrelson

February 14, 2023

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Seattle VC Profile: Sri Chandrasekar, Point72 Ventures

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Vancouver VC Profile: Chris Neumann, Panache Ventures

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Seattle VC Profile: Elizabeth Scallon, Find Ventures

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Seattle VC Profile: Sara Lindquist, FUSE

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