Featured Guests: Tony Kulesa, principal, Pillar VC | Francesco Benedetti, CEO & co-founder, Osmoses

October has already seen five huge M&A deals in biotech, president Biden announces a $7 billion dollar pledge to build ‘hydrogen hubs’ across the US, and LinkedIn initiates another large round of global layoffs.

Featured Guest: Niki Pezeshki, general partner, Felicis Ventures

The $69 billion deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard has finally been approved, 15% of the Israeli tech workforce are being deployed to war, and the CEO of OnlyFans says the company does not plan to IPO.

Featured Guests: Grace Isford, partner, Lux Capital | Michael Daniel, president & CEO, Cyber Threat Alliance

New York City is making its case to be regarded as the world capital of AI, Tik Tok seeks to block Montana’s ban of the app, and HongShan, Sequoia’s former Chinese arm, may be seeking to expand the firm to global markets.

Featured Guests: Jeff Grabow, US venture capital leader, Ernst & Young | Chris Metinko, senior reporter, Crunchbase News

Tech companies creating generative AI tools are trying to turn hype into profits, venture funding in Asia has reached equilibrium in Q3, and Birkenstock sees the worst IPO debut by a unicorn in nearly two years.

Featured Guests: Steve Kraus, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | Sofia Guerra, vice president, Bessemer Venture Partners | Kerry Sette, vice president & head of consumer insights and research, Voya Financial | Noah Shipman, partner, Vistara Growth

Bessemer releases its first annual health tech report revealing funding in the sector is down 65%, how the discussion about mental health in the workplace is changing, and the global economy is growing, although slowly.

Featured Guests: Allison Byers, founder & CEO, Scroobious, and co-chair, All Raise Boston chapter | Priya Saiprasad, co-founder & general partner, Touring Capital | Kfir Kachlon, managing partner at 91 Ventures

Governor Newsom passes the first diversity disclosure bill of its kind for VC firms in California, venture is supporting Israel with financial aid, and food consumption is down due to an appetite-killing drug.

Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Joe Merrill, co-founder & partner, Sputnik ATX | Nick Lockett, co-founder & CTO, Pear Suite

After a surprise attack from terrorist group Hamas, Israel has declared war, new constitutions are being formed by AI companies to enhance guardrails for the tech, and a hacker has compromised user data from genetic testing company 23andMe.

Featured Guests: Ben Stokes, founding partner, Chasing Rainbows | Jason Chapman, founder & managing partner, Konvoy | Daniel Khabie, founding partner, Court Avenue

75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have walked out in the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history, a look into the new human jobs that AI will create, and the results of a KPMG survey of U.S. CEOs and their outlooks on AI investment.

Featured Guests: Chris Gardner, general partner, Underscore VC | Carl Gish, co-founder & CEO, Aro Homes

Pitchbook’s Q3 report reveals a 3-year low for deals, BloombergNEF releases the three climate challenges startups will face in the next decade, and Anthropic is rumored to be seeking $2 billion dollars more from investors like Google.

Featured Guests: Devin Kohli, general partner & co-founder, Outward VC | Johannes Weber, managing partner & founder, Ananda Impact Ventures

Meta is planning to charge European Facebook and Instagram users a monthly subscription fee, the venture capital “spring” may finally be here, and European VC firm Atomico raises $1.1 billion.