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Essays

🛠️Why Every Firm Should Create a Skill Library

Jun 5, 2026

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5 min read

🛠️Why Every Firm Should Create a Skill Library

How to Decode Workflows, Create Skills, and Make Judgment Repeatable

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥 Mega-Funds Take Over Seed, Emerging Managers Rebound, Fee vs Carry, Hermes Agent Masterclass & More

Jun 2, 2026

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5 min read

💥 Mega-Funds Take Over Seed, Emerging Managers Rebound, Fee vs Carry, Hermes Agent Masterclass & More

New insights from Carta, Odin, Theory Ventures, Murph Capital & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥Behind-the-Scenes of an Agentic VC Firm

May 31, 2026

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2 min read

🔥Behind-the-Scenes of an Agentic VC Firm

Where to Start, What Mistakes to Avoid, And How to Scale Your AI Stack

Andre Retterath

Essays

Anthropic Released Claude Opus 4.8 Today

May 29, 2026

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6 min read

Anthropic Released Claude Opus 4.8 Today

Here's Everything You Need to Know & How to Best Use it Now

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥The Right Fund Size, Should VCs Do Marketing?, State of GTM, Employee Onboarding With Claude & More

May 26, 2026

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7 min read

💥The Right Fund Size, Should VCs Do Marketing?, State of GTM, Employee Onboarding With Claude & More

New insights from Stanford, SaaStr, Carta, Growth Unhinged & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥 SpaceX Files for the Largest IPO in History, AI Valuations Hit New Records, Ceasefire Still Unsigned - Here's the State of the Market in May 2026

May 24, 2026

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8 min read

🔥 SpaceX Files for the Largest IPO in History, AI Valuations Hit New Records, Ceasefire Still Unsigned - Here's the State of the Market in May 2026

With fresh data from SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Stripe (..)

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥 What Matters at Seed, Are Systems of Record Dead?, Growing AI Task Horizons & More

May 20, 2026

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6 min read

💥 What Matters at Seed, Are Systems of Record Dead?, Growing AI Task Horizons & More

New insights from METR, Carta, a16z, Point Nine, Odin & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥Network Is the New Data. Most Firms Don't Know Its Worth.

May 17, 2026

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3 min read

🔥Network Is the New Data. Most Firms Don't Know Its Worth.

Learnings from Dawn Capital, Affinity, and Blue Moon, and why your network is the largest asset you've never measured

Andre Retterath

Essays

May 15, 2026

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4 min read

🚀Why Deep Tech Went Mainstream

Hardware Finally Fits the 10 Year VC Model - Thanks to AI

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥AI Capital Demand Outpaces VC Supply, Building an AI Second Brain, Declining Round Dilutions, Cold Inbound Deal Flow Winners & More

May 12, 2026

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7 min read

💥AI Capital Demand Outpaces VC Supply, Building an AI Second Brain, Declining Round Dilutions, Cold Inbound Deal Flow Winners & More

New insights from Princeton, Carta, Pitchbook, Odin (..)

Andre Retterath

DDVC Newsletter Library

Discover the full archive of Data Driven VC insights.

🛠️Why Every Firm Should Create a Skill Library

💥 Mega-Funds Take Over Seed, Emerging Managers Rebound, Fee vs Carry, Hermes Agent Masterclass & More

🔥Behind-the-Scenes of an Agentic VC Firm

Anthropic Released Claude Opus 4.8 Today

💥The Right Fund Size, Should VCs Do Marketing?, State of GTM, Employee Onboarding With Claude & More

🔥 SpaceX Files for the Largest IPO in History, AI Valuations Hit New Records, Ceasefire Still Unsigned - Here's the State of the Market in May 2026

💥 What Matters at Seed, Are Systems of Record Dead?, Growing AI Task Horizons & More

🔥Network Is the New Data. Most Firms Don't Know Its Worth.

🚀Why Deep Tech Went Mainstream

💥AI Capital Demand Outpaces VC Supply, Building an AI Second Brain, Declining Round Dilutions, Cold Inbound Deal Flow Winners & More

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