Featured Guests: James Currier, general partner, NFX Capital | Patrick Driscoll, general partner, Chasing Rainbows

The biggest antitrust trial in over twenty years begins between Google and the DOJ, megaround raises in venture are down 80% since 2021, and Binance US CEO Brian Shroder leaves the firm amid large scale layoffs and an SEC lawsuit.

Featured Guests: Tim Draper, venture capitalist, founder & managing partner, Draper Associates | Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, founder & CEO, Samooha

Instacart and Klaviyo price IPOs at diminished valuations, Google pledges $20 million to create a fund for developing best practices for responsible A.I., and Andreesen Horowitz has been sued for discrimination by one of its former startup co-founders.

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Eyal Lifshitz, founder & CEO, Bluevine | Nick Lockett, CTO & co-founder, Pear Suite

AI misinformation poses a huge threat to 2024 global elections, Goldman Sachs pledges $100 million dollars to small businesses across the U.S., and Apple was exploited by the world’s most powerful spyware weapon.

Featured Guests: Oliver Libby, co-founder & managing partner, H/L Ventures | Bryan Corbett, president & CEO, The Managed Funds Association

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has enabled a battery deal boom in the U.S., private equity sues the SEC over transparency rules and regulation overstepping, and China has banned iPhones in all government agency workplaces.

Featured Guests: Joe Merrill, co-founder & partner, Sputnik ATX | Jason Whiting, CFO, Mercury Financial

Jared Kushner’s private equity firm backed by Saudi Arabia has made the first ever Saudi investment into an Israeli company, encouraging GDP and job growth numbers reveal a stabilizing economy, and drama surrounding Y-Combinator’s Demo Day.

Featured Guests: Lily Lyman, general partner, Underscore VC | Scott Beechuk, partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Sequoia has had a tumultuous year and their LPs are noticing, a survey of top computer science professors reveals a desire for a federal agency to regulate AI, and Arm prices its IPO between $47-$51.

Featured Guests: Jake Heller, co-founder & CEO, Casetext | John Buttrick, partner, Union Square Ventures

Casetext CEO and co-founder Jake Heller and Union Square Ventures’s John Buttrick join Venture Daily for an exclusive interview about Casetext’s recent $650 million dollar acquisition by Thomson Reuters.

Featured Guests: Daniel Khabie, co-founder & partner, CourtAvenue | Kareem Dabbagh, co-founder & managing partner, VoLo Earth Ventures | Jimmy Orsillo, partner, Underscore VC

Google DeepMind’s SynthID tool raises questions about whether companies should inform customers when using generative AI to create content, new air-conditioning technology amid history’s hottest global temperatures, and are Y-Combinator valuations too high?

Featured Guests: Katie Perry, general manager of investor relations, Public.com | Chris Taylor, chief growth officer, Left Lane Capital | Anshu Prasad, co-founder and CEO, Leaf Logistics

Public.com’s yearly report reveals retail investor participation has hit an all time high, venture platform teams face job cuts, and a bidding battle has begun for bankrupt trucking company Yellow’s freight terminal real estate and equipment.

Featured Guests: Alan Patricof, chairman, Primetime Partners and founder & chairman emeritus, Greycroft Partners | Ajay Agarwal, partner, Bain Capital Ventures | Paul Cappelli, head of liquid passive strategies, Galaxy Digital

TechCrunch acquires StrictlyVC, how generative AI will revolutionize work over the next decade, but potentially at the cost of human jobs, and bitcoin surges after a favorable U.S. appeals court ruling.