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After weeks of VC meetings and hosting VCs in Boxing rings for @Techweek_ I wrote an article on the state of venture capital If you're in VC or a founder currently raising this article of for you timhaydenclark.substack.com/p/the-number-1…

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We rented a real boxing ring in Hollywood and let VCs tell founders, live, why they’d pass 🥊 Six founders. One minute each. No hiding. Here’s what two @a16z Tech Weeks taught us 👇 #SFTW 🌉 We opened with Why Investors Say No. Sarah Romanko (@geek_ventures ) and Bryan Liu (@alumniventures ) told founders exactly where a pitch loses them #LATW 🎬 Then we took it to Hollywood: a real ring at @unifiedbxngclub and a VC panel giving verdicts in real time. Thank you to @Citizens_PB and @deel for sponsoring, and to Office of Tomorrow for co-hosting. What we learned → Founders are raising now. 86% of the founders we surveyed in LA are raising now or within six months → The inbox is the investor’s biggest time sink. Investors read deals that are clearly a no, for fear of missing the one that isn’t → Speed wins deals. Slow internal decisions are how good investments get lost → Claims need checking, not just reading. That includes the “we’re closing fast” urgency Those last three are why we’re building GoPresent: we do the homework, so investors can make the call Next round: @SlushHQ 🇫🇮 Helsinki, 18–19 November. We’re hosting a house party. Announcement soon. Going to Slush? Reply or DM. We want to meet you.

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Snippets of our launch video for @okihomeai, your Personal AI Computer. Results: 1.1M views on X. Sold out First batch. Became a much larger convo on what's coming next in the world of personal AI. Thanks @Luofei_Chen for trusting us again!

One day after @screenpipe launch: 600,000+ views. 1.9K likes. 2.5K saves. 213 reposts. 214 comments across LinkedIn and X. For the strategy, we asked ourselves: "What's now possible with Screenpipe that used to be impossible or really hard to do?" That drove every frame, from the hook to all the use cases shown. Special thanks to @louis030195 for trusting us with this process!

@a16z that was wiiiild 4x VCs 8x Founders Pitching 100x Investors & Founders Ringside Thank you to @CitizensBank & @deel for making it such a spectacle join @alanpun_ in the future VC Boxing Rings - DM #LATW #LATechWeek #Startup #Founder #VC

Few Deals, Bigger Cheques 💰 How does a founder truly differentiate themselves from the noise? How does a founder become truly VC-backable? Our VC Boxing Ring Panel will share all their insight at TECH WEEK by a16z Our Headline "Boxers" for our MAIN EVENT Sarah Romanko and @geek_ventures 🥊 Martin Cox of Voice Capital 🥊 La Keisha Landrum Pierre of @VCEmmeline 🥊 One mystery VC 🥊 Huge thank you to all the incredible people who have made this possible, including our sponsors Miles Deamer of @CitizensBank and Madalyn Woronoff (Messner) & Madeleine Futterman of @deel Bring on the most glamorous boxing ring the bright lights of LA have to offer 🎥 RSVP: lnkd.in/ehd_Vcjm #LATechWeek #LATW #VC #Founder #Startup

Space is limited by launch economics. Every kilogram of water, fuel, shielding, and metal must climb out of Earth’s gravity well—making large-scale orbital industry prohibitively expensive. Asteroids change that #founder #startup #space #asteroid #20str #techweekbyaz16

This is @Cruz.hq of @stagera.ai Cruz is solving the AVL production problem with Stagera, a platform to streamline insight and operational processes, all in one agentic platform #sf #founder #sales #ai #fundraising #techweekbyaz16

Great to have Sharif Bennett of CineBlock® on 20 seconds to raise. He's rebuilding how entertainment gets financed. CineBlock is an equity crowdfunding marketplace for film, TV, games and more, so anyone can legally invest in or finance a production. #FounderSeries #techweek

Met Aurora and Milo of Evermind Labs for 20 seconds to raise They are building private, uncensored AI — the first AI where you are the customer not the product. 2 months in. 100,000 users. If that’s not traction I don’t know what is. #FounderSeries #nytechweek #AIFounders

Jenna Scherma of Learn Mobo is building tech that matters - sex ed from awkward lectures into gamified, ready to teach, customisable to state guidelines, and designed for educators, parents and teens alike. #founders #fundraising

I met Michael Melichar of Triptimize at NY Tech Week This one is going to resonate with every travel operator out there. ✈️ Triptimize is white-label AI trip planning deployed inside the brands travellers already trust #TravelTech #AIStartup #StartupFunding #venturecapital

Why Investors Say No In the Ring with an Investor comes to @techweeka16z LA, presented with @citizensprivatebank and @getdeel Free for founders raising &investors actively deploying gopresent.ai/events #LATechWeek #Founders #Fundraising #startup

20 seconds to raise is a tech for good founder ⏱️ Ophir Kagan is building Kala AI-powered patient care technology that helps patients navigate their health journey, supports clinical teams, and generates real world evidence that pharma actually needs. #FounderSeries #HealthTech

Met Jiapeng (JP) Zhang and Wang Xiang at TECH WEEK by a16z and this one is playing the long game. 🧬 They’re building at the intersection of AI and longevity — a health app designed to help you live better for longer. Already on the App Store #FounderSeries #PreSeed #Raise #AI

20s to raise with Christian Santos of Organizely at TECH WEEK by a16z and this is the kind of founder who gets it - he solved his own problem first. 📦 Check his pitch out below #FounderSeries #PreSeed

Had the pleasure of interviewing Chandan Seth Nanda of ToxiProofAI, an ex-Antler founder in residence. Drug companies spend billions testing medicines. Most fail — because they find out the drug is dangerous after giving it to patients. ToxiProofAI figures that out before.