<p>StrictlyVC is crossing the Atlantic! On May 13, London will play host to an exclusive StrictlyVC evening, delivering the same high-caliber VC insider content that has made these events a must-attend for investors and startup leaders alike. If you’re a venture capitalist or founder looking to exchange insights with peers and dive into powerful, no-filter [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ted Schlein&#8217;s cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is raising $100 million for a new fund, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.</p>

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<p>The venture capital firm is reportedly in talks to invest in TikTok as part of a bid led by Oracle and other American investors looking to buy out TikTok from ByteDance, according to the Financial Times.  TikTok is once again slated to be banned in the U.S. on April 5 unless its Chinese-based owner sells [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Construct Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups applying technology to sectors like manufacturing, transportation, and defense, has closed its third fund with $300 million in capital commitments. The Washington, D.C.-based firm previously raised a $225 million second fund and a $75 million capital pool for later-stage companies in 2022. While many [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug-discovery platform that was spun out of Google&#8217;s DeepMind in 2021, has raised external capital for the first time. The $600 million round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from GV and existing investor Alphabet, Google&#8217;s parent, it said.     The funding will accelerate further development of Isomorphic&#8217;s AI drug [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Retym, a U.S. chipmaker with Israeli roots, has raised a fresh $75 million series D led by James Kuklinski of Spark Capital. Existing investors — Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha and Kleiner Perkins’ Mamoon Hamid — also participated, bringing its total raised to $180 million, it says. The chipmaker is another startup benefiting from AI’s glow-up. Its [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>When Intel Capital announced its plans to spin out from semiconductor giant Intel in January, it came as a bit of a shock considering the firm has been operating as Intel&#8217;s venture investment arm since 1991. In many ways this decision marks the end of an era for what&#8217;s considered by some to be the [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Prolific fintech investor and QED Investors co-founder Frank Rotman said Friday that he will transition to a partner emeritus role by year’s end to focus on founding his own startups. But those startups won’t necessarily be financial technology companies. In a post on X, Rotman &#8212; who helped start QED in 2007 &#8212; declared that [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now,&nbsp;the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of government. And that&#8217;s thanks, in large part, to the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. Much reporting on DOGE has&nbsp;focused on its staffers&#8217; ties to Musk,&nbsp;the billionaire bestie of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bradley Tusk, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Venture Partners, told TechCrunch in today’s episode of Equity that VC as we know it is dead. And it has been for the last four years.&nbsp; “Maybe there’s some VC that I’ve never heard of that’s awash with liquidity the last couple of years, but we haven’t [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Emergence Capital has closed its $1 billion seventh fund, it reported on Tuesday It&#8217;s the firm&#8217;s first raise in nearly four years. In May 2021, the San Mateo, California-based venture firm rounded up nearly a billion dollars in capital commitments across two funds.&nbsp; At that time, it closed its sixth early-stage fund with $575 million; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>French VC firm Daphni is announcing the first closing of its new fund, Daphni Blue. The firm has raised €200 million (around $215 million at current exchange rates). It expects to raise as much as €250 million ($270 million) by the end of the year. Some of Daphni’s most remarkable past investments include Back Market, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Founders Future, a Paris-based VC firm with €300 million in assets under management (around $324 million at current exchange rates), is opening up the capital of the holding company that manages Founders Future’s funds and Sowefund. The company has sold a 25% stake in the holding company to MACSF, the Dassault family, CMA CGM Group, [&hellip;]</p>