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Venture Daily

Venture capital, tech, and business news to start your day. Only the most relevant stories, with insights from the most relevant industry experts. Hosted by Jackson Fordyce. 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

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00:08:41

Palantir Wins $10 Billion, 10-Year Army Contract

Venture Daily ·

2025/08/06

Palantir just locked in a $10 billion, 10-year deal with the U.S. Army to streamline 75 contracts into one, solidifying its role as the Pentagon’s go-to software partner in the age of AI-driven warfare.Featured Guest: Ross Fubini, founder and managing director, XYZ Ventures

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00:14:34

The Rise of Austin: America’s Next Big Startup Capital

Venture Daily ·

2025/08/04

Austin is the next big startup capital. It is now the fastest-growing major startup ecosystem in the U.S., and is on track to surpass Boston as the #4 startup city, right behind San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.

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00:18:05

Did Figma Just Have the Greatest Opening Day Ever?

Venture Daily ·

2025/08/01

On Figma’s first day trading on the NYSE, its stock soared over 250%, closing at $115.50 and giving the design software company a market cap near $68 billion. That's more than triple the $20 billion Adobe offered before regulators killed that deal in 2023. Silicon Valley is celebrating. The IPO raised $1.2 billion, mostly benefiting early investors like Sequoia, Greylock, Index Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins, whose combined stakes are now worth about $24 billion. It’s a huge win for Silicon

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00:11:51

China’s $564 Billion AI Push Aims to Cut Out the West

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/31

China is pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure, mandating AI education from grade school to college, and churning out homegrown talent -- all to position itself to dominate the AI race while the U.S. scrambles to keep its narrowing lead.Featured Guest: Connor Love, partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

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00:14:25

A Second Massive Breach Has Hit the Tea App

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/30

Tea, the viral dating safety app built to help women share red flags about men, just suffered another massive data breach. The initial leak exposed 72,000 sensitive images (selfies and photo IDs used for verification). The second security issue has revealed over 1.1 million messages including chats where users shared phone numbers, discussed abortions, and talked about cheating partners.

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00:08:15

Tesla Signs $16.5 Billion Chip Contract with Samsung

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/29

Elon Musk just confirmed a $16.5 billion chip deal with Samsung, locking in production of Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips from Samsung’s new Texas fab. The deal marks a major comeback bid for Samsung in the AI chip war after falling behind rivals like TSMC and Nvidia.Featured Guest: Jimmy Yun, investor, 8VC

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00:31:20

Everyone is Afraid of AI Robots -- Here’s Why They're...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/28

It is inevitable that humanoid robots will be in our homes within the next 15 years. Many are afraid, but they shouldn't be.

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00:24:53

Trump’s AI Action Plan, Microsoft SharePoint Hack,...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/25

Trump just flipped the AI playbook, ditching regulation for raw acceleration, with an ambitious plan to supercharge data centers, wipe legal barriers, and root out “woke” algorithms. Chinese hackers recently breached the United States nuclear weapons agency using a Microsoft SharePoint flaw, exposing how fragile America’s cyber infrastructure still is.And how Europe may be poised to have a “sputnik moment” in AI, but to build unicorns, founders must win early in the U.S. where the money, market, and

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00:11:40

How OpenAI’s $500B Stargate Plan has Entirely...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/23

OpenAI is racing to build a 5GW AI infrastructure empire with Oracle, which will cost $30B a year and create enough juice to power 4 million homes. Stargate, its $500 billion dollar SoftBank partnership, however, is lagging behind, and is still yet to secure a single data center deal.Featured Guest: Jake O'Shea, principal, Antler

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00:10:23

CEO Interview: How Medium Nearly Went Bankrupt, and...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/22

We interview the CEO of Medium for the story of how he helped the company claw its way back from millions of losses and near-collapse.Featured Guest: Tony Stubblebine, CEO, MediumRead Tony's article 'Fell in a hole, got out.' on Medium: https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

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00:20:53

Netflix is the First Major Studio to Use GenAI, Says...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/21

Netflix just slipped generative AI into its new sci-fi series The Eternaut to cut costs and speed up production. It marks the first time AI-made visuals have appeared in an original Netflix show and reignites fears about machines replacing human creatives.Featured Guests: Pratima Arora, chief product officer, SmartsheetWatch our full interview with Augustus Doricko at Rainmaker's facility in El Segundo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha3iTQS8yiA

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00:11:31

Meet ChatGPT Agent, OpenAI’s Next Game Changer

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/18

OpenAI has launched Agent Mode, a major upgrade to ChatGPT that enables it to take real-world actions like browsing, coding, using APIs, and handling complex tasks on its own virtual computer, with safeguards against prompt injection, data leaks, and risky actions.Featured Guest: Ben Narasin, founder & general partner, Tenacity VC

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00:15:25

$47M for Firestorm’s 3D-Printed Drone Tech, AI...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/17

The CEO of Firestorm Labs joins us to discuss the company’s $47 million dollar series A funding round to scale its battlefield-ready 3D printing platform. And driven of course by AI, U.S. startup funding has jumped 75.6% so far in 2025, even as VC fundraising has fallen.Featured Guests: Dan Magy, CEO and co-founder, Firestorm | Elliott Parker, founder and CEO, Alloy PartnersWatch our recent interview with Dan at Firestorm's facility in San Diego: https://youtu.be/rLTiJQvVBFM

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00:25:31

Trump, McCormick’s $90B AI + Energy Push in PA, An...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/16

Trump and Senator McCormick just announced a plan for $90 billion in private investment to supercharge Pennsylvania’s AI and energy sectors, creating thousands of jobs. And we talk to Bradley Tusk about his recent Ted Talk in which he made the case for why you should be able to vote on your phone.Featured Guests: Doug Clinton, co-founder and managing partner, Deepwater Asset Management | Bradley Tusk, CEO, Tusk Venture PartnersWatch Bradley Tusk's Ted Talk titled 'Why you should be able to

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00:22:39

Rainmaker x Atmo Team Up to Cloud Seed with AI, Grok...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/15

Cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, which recently fueled conspiracy theories after the Texas floods, just teamed up with Atmo, an AI weather firm to squeeze more rain out of the sky with drones. And Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, fresh off a scandal for spewing antisemitic garbage, is now under Pentagon contract and officially for sale to every federal agency in America.Featured Guests: Augustus Doricko, CEO and founder, Rainmaker Technology Corp | Alex Levy, CEO and co-founder, Atmo | Oliver Libby,

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00:16:30

Devin AI May Replace Thousands on Wall St, Trump’s...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/14

Wall Street just hired an AI engineer named Devin who writes code like a human, and he might soon have thousands of clones replacing junior developers. And Trump’s new “One Big Beautiful Bill” promises more American rare-earth mining but kills the clean energy incentives that made those mines worth building.Featured Guests: Anshul Gupta, co-founder, Actively AI | Josh Dorfman, co-founder, CEO, and Host, Supercool

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00:16:36

Elon Unveils Grok 4, Pentagon Invests in Rare Earths,...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/11

On today’s show, Elon says that Grok 4 is smarter than PHDs in all disciplines, the Pentagon takes on China in the battle for mining rare earths, and Amazon considers dumping billions of more investment dollars into Anthropic.

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00:13:37

Nvidia Hits $4T in Market Cap and Trump Unveils New...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/10

On today’s show, Nvidia just became the most valuable country in history hitting $4T in market cap, Trump unveils the latest tariffs rates on countries

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00:13:42

The Moa Bird Is Returning from Extinction, Trump's...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/09

On today’s show, how will the big beautiful bill affect venture capital? We have more job movement news, people getting hired, people leaving companies. And the Moa bird, that’s been extinct for hundreds of years, is being brough back to life.

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00:11:17

Elon Musk Starts New Political Party, Meta Poaches...

Venture Daily ·

2025/07/08

On today’s show, Elon Musk announces he is starting a new political party in America. Mark Zuckerberg’s hiring streak continues by adding one of Apple’s top AI talents, and we recap what happened with the flooding in Central Texas and if cloud seeding played a role in it.

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