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- Seed Fund Portfolio Construction for Dummies
- Alloy, Fuzzy Pet Health, and MedCrypt founders offer tips on finding product-market fit
- Attentive’s Brian Long explains the importance of talking to your customers
- SaaS is dead, long live AI?
- Why we led Phytoform’s seed round
- Maintaining Control of Your Company: What All Founders Should Know
- Why we invested in Model-Prime
- Why we invested in Attention
- Why we invested in Sutro
- Why we invested in TrueFoundry
- Why we invested in Glystn
- Remembering the Eniac Six
- Go-to-market tips from Alloy’s Laura Spiekerman
- 4 Reasons Why Veterans Make Ideal Founders
- We had to hustle our way to building a lasting firm.
- Announcing Eniac V
- Tradespace has raised a $15M Series A, led by AVP, with continued support from Eniac Ventures, Amplo, and Scrum Ventures.
- Struction Raises a $5M Seed Round and Launches Preconstruction Map for General Contractors.
- With Ohai.ai, Sheila Lirio Marcelo Is Building Solutions for the Care Economy
- VCs say digital agents, 'crypto mania,' and a torrent of liquidity are the tech trends to watch in 2025
- VC Spotlight: Nihal Mehta, Co-founder and General Partner, Eniac Ventures
- US startup Lunar Outpost raises $30 million to speed moon rover development
- We're excited tp welcome Michael Zhao to Eniac Ventures as our new Principal!
- VCs say 2024 tech trends to watch include more startup shutdowns, a defense-tech renaissance, and the rise of AI winners
- Meet the bigger, better Eniac Network
- Wallaroo, an MLOps platform for enterprises, raises $25M
- Yahoo just hired a blockchain AI team to lead its new research group
- We're excited to welcome Dorian Rutherford to Eniac Ventures as our new Head of Platform!
- Our 🗝 Lesson from Seeding Attentive
- Wrangle secures $2M to automate company workflows
- US's 50+ Top Climate VC's To Know
- Upfort: Simplifying The Management And Insurance Of Cyber Risks
- Y Combinator-backed fintech Pebble uses stablecoins to offer 5% yield on cash
- Toronto police are turning to AI to eliminate wait times for non-emergency calls
- VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them
- Top industry insider Nebex CEO on the state of the space economy, and SpaceX’s place in it
- LevelAI’s founder on moving fast, betting on AI, and finding product-market fit
- Today, Coworker dropped the price of enterprise AI by 80%.
- This Startup’s AI Tech Is Already Live in 911 Call Centers
- Top 10 Construction Apps for 2025
- Retailers in the US Push Big Holiday Discounts to Ease Inventory Avalanche
- Today Cecil released our latest newsletter diving into one of the most important, and often uncomfortable, topics in nature data: dataset evaluation.
- These ex-Uber managers just raised $13 million to bring AI teammates to the workplace. Here's the pitch deck they used.
- TBPN speaks to with @mignano & @NirZicherman about Oboe; a new AI-powered learning app that lets you build personalized courses on any topic with just a prompt.
- Eniac ❤️ New York tech
- Tiger Global leads $30M investment into Briq, a fintech for the construction industry
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 32 Featuring Guest Michael Katz
- How to Raise a Seed Round in Less Than 40 Steps
- Startups race to build a crypto-native, consumer-friendly messaging platform for web3
- Surtr Raises $5M Seed for C-UAS Integration
- The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2025
- Ask a Seed VC: How much should I spend to find product-market fit?
- The lessons and laments of DeepSeek, according to VCs
- These Are 2024’s Top 50 Vertical SaaS Startups
- The 68 most important VCs in New York, according to other VCs
- The Prompt: SEO Is Dead. What Comes Next?
- Mia is now approved as a General Motors Turnkey Dealer Digital Solution provider!
- OpenAI-Backed Adaptive Security Named to Fortune's Cyber 60 List
- The age of AI enterprise applications… and consumer??
- Inside Eniac: From a $1.6M Fund to $220M
- Startup aims to bring assumable mortgages to the masses
- Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course-generation platform
- This company can help you get the low mortgage rates of years ago.
- Superdao raises $10.5 million seed round, valued at $160 million
- On this week's episode of Dear Twentysomething, we spoke with the thoughtful & authentic OG NYC VC... Nihal Mehta (co-founder of @EniacVC )!
- Pelgo raises $5.5M to train workers for AI jobs nobody’s ready for
- Passbase gets $10M as it refocuses its ID verification tools on crypto
- The 53 most promising crypto startups of 2022, according to VCs
- Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
- OpenAI backs deepfake cybersecurity startup Adaptive Security in new funding round
- The Boston Dynamics spinout building robots you’ll actually want to hug
- Seed-stage firm Eniac Ventures raises $220M across two funds
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 15 featuring Amar Varma
- Owlet CEO Kurt Workman on Using Tech in Parenting, Going Public
- Predoc raises $30 million to stop document chasing in healthcare
- Retargeting Has Found Its Way to the Chatbots
- Owlet's infant monitoring sock is back on sale in the US
- Introducing Super Agent: Your AI Teammate for Revenue Execution
- Summari pivots to AI-generated link previews that really click
- Motorola Solutions Buys 911 Call Center AI Firm HyperYou
- Someone got a $1.25 million loan by using NFTs as collateral. Here’s how you may be able to do the same thing
- Nirvana Health raises $4.2M to help therapists manage their patient workloads
- Reframe launches with $5M to address application silos and improve digital collaboration
- Pavilion’s 50 CEOs to watch in 2025
- One startup is a big step closer to pilotless commercial cargo flights
- Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients
- Kindo raises $20.6M to bring security to enterprise AI
- Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record
- Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion
- NFT Startup Rarify Raises $100 Million Series A—While Contending With Key Employees Stuck In Ukraine
- Meta alumni’s startup TrueFoundry raises $2.3M to accelerate ML deployments
- MedCrypt lands $25M injection to secure vulnerable medical devices
- Ocean floor mapping robotics startup Bedrock announces an $8M raise
- NVIDIA, Ready Robotics look to simplify automation deployments
- Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack
- Palo Alto Networks Acquires Eniac Portfolio Company Embrace
- Mehta: The U.S. aims to lead the AI race, fueling American semiconductors.
- Intel Capital fuels TrueFoundry’s $19M funding to help boost AI deployments at scale
- Nirvana Health announces $7.5M seed extension to help therapists navigate a ‘new world’ of insurance
- Meet Evertune, A Gen-AI Analytics Startup Founded By Trade Desk Vets
- Lunar Outpost raises $30 million
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 6 Featuring Payal Kadakia from Legacy
- New Zealand Founded Vence Raises $16 Million To Deliver Virtual Fencing In Australia And The US
- Level AI, which provides call center automation software, raises $20M
- Ghost comes out of stealth
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 1 Featuring Laura Spiekerman from Alloy
- Mio raises $8.7M Series A to make enterprise messaging interoperable
- MariaDB spinout SkySQL secures seed funding to ‘bring conversational AI to databases’
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 8 Featuring Brian Stempeck from Evertune
- Mia Labs Announces $20M Series A
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 10 Featuring Mike Mignano
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 2 Featuring Dee Murthy from Ghost
- Level AI applies algorithms to contact center pain points
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 31 Featuring Jim Payne
- How To Make Software Integration Less Painful And Expensive
- Kindo aims to take the security stress out of AI workflows
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 19 Featuring Hadley Harris
- Human Unicorn Podcast - Episode 26 Featuring Tejpaul Bhatia
- How to Liquidate Excess Inventory
- How ordering pizza helped me land a legendary VC for my podcast?!?!
- How robots and indoor farming can help save water and grow crops year round
- How Canadian startup Hyper is using AI to help field non-emergency police calls
- Got fundraising questions? Ask a Seed VC
- Here's an exclusive look at the 12-slide pitch deck generative AI startup Sutro used to score $2.2 million in funding
- Hadley Harris: Building Eniac Ventures with 3 Friends / Investing in AI
- Bito bites off $5.7M in funding to take on GitHub Copilot in AI coding
- Had a great time on the Next Next Podcast with @jjacobs22 .
- 4 college friends turned $1 million into a New York venture-capital empire backing tech's hottest unicorns. Here's how they did it.
- How a former hedge fund analyst transitioned into a job as a partner in venture capital focused on AI
- Adaptive Security introducing a series of AI security training videos featuring Conan O'Brien.
- Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses
- Exclusive: Health bill transparency startup Nirvana gets $24.2M
- Exclusive: Ghost, B2B retail inventory marketplace, raises a $40 million Series C led by L Catterton
- Eniac’s Mike Witkowski on Picking Providers, Second-Order Questions, and Why AGMs Are About the Story
- Evertune is building marketing analytics tools for LLMs. Check out the pitch deck it used to launch from stealth with $4 million in seed funding from Eniac.
- Google Ventures Backs Fintech Started by Former Axiom Space CEO
- Eniac Ventures is Hiring an Investor
- For Her Second Act, Sheila Lirio Marcelo Aims to Lighten the Load for Parents
- Evertune: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Brian Stempeck About The Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) And AI Marketing Platform
- Exclusive: AI startup Attention just raised $14 million to bring its natural language processing tech to sales calls
- Groq Raises $650 Million to Help Startup Pivot After Nvidia Deal
- AI Computer Startup Hits $4.5 Billion Valuation in Seed Round
- Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses
- Forte acquires N3twork’s platform to grow blockchain games
- Fox Robotics closes $20M funding round
- Alloy raises $100M at a $1.35B valuation to help banks and fintechs fight fraud with its API-based platform
- Eniac Ventures: Fall 2025 🎃 (+ we're hiring!)
- Former Google, MNTN Execs Raise $5.5M to Help Brands Build TV Ads With AI
- AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls
- GenHealth.ai secures $16.5M in series A for back-office AI agents
- Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List - Largest Cloud Computing Companies Ranked
- Brutal year cut value of Union Square Ventures holdings in half
- 'Flat is the new up:' As three tech unicorns go public, it's less a call to arms and more a shoulder shrug
- Groq Valued at $3.5 Billion in Funding Round After Nvidia Deal
- Embrace grabs a new funding round amid unveiling of new mobile data intelligence software
- Attentive Acquires Conversational B2C Text Messaging Firm Tone
- Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
- Fantasy startup Esports One raises $4M more
- Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
- From desk to doorstep: KitchenMate expands smart food kiosk to condo market
- Lovable acquires Sutro to make software easier to explain and easier to trust
- Coworker.ai: $13 Million Raised For AI Agent Research Company
- Cascala Health Secures $8.6M for AI-Enabled Clinical Intelligence Platform for Post-Acute Care
- Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products
- Data startup mParticle just raised $150 million as competition with Adobe and Salesforce intensifies
- Conduit Health's $17M Series A: Building the “Easy Button” for Home Healthcare
- d-Matrix Acquires Wallaroo.ai to Speed up Deployment of Heterogeneous AI Inference Workloads
- Drip Shop Live launches Instant Packs for trading cards
- Gartner recognises TrueFoundry as an Emerging Leader in GenAI Engineering Emerging Market Quadrant
- Fintech startup Alloy leans on fraud prevention to land new $1.55B valuation
- Data startup mParticle has made its first-ever acquisition as it looks to better compete with Snowflake, Adobe, and Salesforce
- At Pitch and Run, VC Nihal Mehta is creating a community for founders and investors to connect over exercise.
- Electric robots are mapping the seafloor, Earth’s last frontier
- CloudX Hits GA With Plans To Rewire The Mobile Ad Stack Using AI Agents
- Exclusive: How generative AI startup Treat scored $8.5 million in funding from Greylock to help companies create personalized product photos
- Already Profitable MaestroQA Raises $25 Million To Bring The Human Touch Back To Customer Service
- Exclusive: 1upHealth pockets $40M Series C
- Adtech Founders Raise $30 Million to Automate Mobile Ads for Publishers
- Edera is building a better Kubernetes and AI security solution from the ground up
- Fobi AI inks deal to acquire Basket and bolster coupon aggregator offering
- A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection
- Affiniti’s 20- and 22-year-old founders raise $17M led by SignalFire just 6 months after an $11M seed
- Bill Gates' green tech fund bets on Silicon Valley farming robots
- Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List - Best Cloud Computing Companies Ranked
- Drip Shop Live Founder Shares How to Successfully Turn a Hobby Into a Business
- Grocery Courier Boxed to Go Public in SPAC Deal
- Exclusive: Headspace buys The Shine App in DEI push
- After selling to Spotify, Anchor’s co-founders are back with Oboe, an AI-powered app for learning
- Edera Is Closing the GPU Security Gap for Autonomous AI
- Automation Anywhere expands into process discovery with FortressIQ acquisition
- Analytics startup Unsupervised raises $35M to spot patterns in enterprise data
- Drip aims to provide thrill of live commerce to NFTs, physical collectibles
- AI Chip Startup Groq Raises $750 Million at $6.9 Billion Valuation
- Big news: Tradespace has acquired Paragon
- Beyond Borders: Immigrant Leaders Reimagining New York’s Startup Scene
- AT&T enters into strategic contract with Unsupervised after finding over $100M in insights using Unsupervised's AI Data Analysts
- Attention uses natural language processing to help sales reps sell faster
- 43 startups to bet your career on in 2025
- Eden office management platform rebrands to Eden Workplace
- Attentive Partners With Shopify to Advance Buying by Text
- CISO enlists agentic AI reinforcements for SecOps
- After selling Anchor to Spotify, co-founders reunite to build AI educational startup Oboe
- Beck’s and RAGT Select Phytoform’s AI-powered Gene Tuning to Develop Next-Generation Corn Trait Product
- East Bay Tech Firm Xwing Looking to Fly Planes Without Pilots
- Autonomous aviation startup Xwing hits $400M valuation after latest funding round
- Avant doubles down on digital banking with Zero Financial acquisition
- Boxed CEO: Consumers Are Shifting Toward Private Brands
- AutoFi Scores New Investment Millions, Tightens Bond With Finance Giant
- America’s Top Venture Capital Firms of 2025
- A Billion-Dollar Question Hangs Over the New AI Search Marketing Industry
- Addition Leads Funding for Website Builder Universe; Twitter Shuffles Top Team
- Actor Labs Raises $4M Seed Round Led by Eniac Ventures
- Peter Thiel's VC firm just led a $40 million investment into the self-driving startup ISEE.
- Cube Dev raises $15.5M to commercialize Cube.js open source data API platform