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🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?

Sep 13, 2026

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6 min read

🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?

The new edge in venture becomes winning, not sourcing. Insights from Originalis' Win Module

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More

Sep 8, 2026

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5 min read

💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, NFX, Odin & more

Andre Retterath

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🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026

Sep 6, 2026

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4 min read

🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026

Which stealth and startup profiles get most investor visits on Harmonic's platform?

Andre Retterath

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🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners

Sep 3, 2026

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5 min read

🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners

Why the AI boom will concentrate capital in fewer companies and make venture capital more exclusive

Andre Retterath

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🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

Aug 30, 2026

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3 min read

🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

How Accel, Chapter One, Georgian, and RTP Global decide who owns the stack

Andre Retterath

Essays

Aug 27, 2026

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3 min read

🔥What Thousands of VC Agents Do All Day

Insights from Harmonic's AI Agents

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More

Aug 25, 2026

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4 min read

💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, Foundation Capital, Odin, SVB & more

Andre Retterath

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Aug 23, 2026

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9 min read

🎙️How I Invest: The AI-Native VC Firm

What We Learned Rebuilding a $2.5B AUM Investment Firm Around AI, Data & Technology

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More

Aug 19, 2026

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5 min read

💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More

New insights from Carta, Khosla, Sequoia, Stanford & more

Andre Retterath

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🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026

Aug 16, 2026

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6 min read

🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026

With fresh data from Cloudflare, Datadog, Revolut & more (..)

Andre Retterath

Essays

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

Aug 14, 2026

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4 min read

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

The Knowledge Base, Method, & Best Practices

Andre Retterath

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💥Personal AI Operating Stack, What Got Hyped vs What Got Built, How VCs Decide & More

Aug 12, 2026

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5 min read

💥Personal AI Operating Stack, What Got Hyped vs What Got Built, How VCs Decide & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, Sequoia, Stanford, Theory Ventures & more

Andre Retterath

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Aug 9, 2026

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2 min read

🔥Do Investors Still Need a Lawyer?

How NEA, Goodwin, & LegalQuants are automating legals with AI

Andre Retterath

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🚨Join the DDVC Investor Track at Bits & Pretzels 2026 🥨

Aug 7, 2026

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1 min read

🚨Join the DDVC Investor Track at Bits & Pretzels 2026 🥨

1,700+ GPs and 300+ LPs - including a16z, Accel, GC, KKR, Kleiner Perkins, MEAG, Sequoia, Stepstone & many more

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Why Job Descriptions Are Dead, Do Funds Need Developers?, Opportunities Across the AI Stack, AI GTM Strategies & More

Aug 5, 2026

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5 min read

💥Why Job Descriptions Are Dead, Do Funds Need Developers?, Opportunities Across the AI Stack, AI GTM Strategies & More

New insights from a16z, Carta, OpenAI, Chamath (..)

Andre Retterath

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🔥World's Hottest Startups in August 2026

Aug 2, 2026

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5 min read

🔥World's Hottest Startups in August 2026

Measured by Investor Interest on Harmonic's Platform: Who Gets Most Profile Views?

Andre Retterath

Essays

Jul 31, 2026

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4 min read

🔥 Here's the Modern VC Tech Stack

The Tools, Adoption Gaps & How Compliance Can Catch Up

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥How Top 5% VCs Keep Winning, Time Between Rounds, Reserve Strategies, State of SPVs & More

Jul 29, 2026

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5 min read

💥How Top 5% VCs Keep Winning, Time Between Rounds, Reserve Strategies, State of SPVs & More

New insights from Stanford, Carta, EWOR, Growth Unhinged, Odin (..)

Andre Retterath

Essays

Jul 26, 2026

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3 min read

The Analyst Role Is Dead, No?

Facts, Figures, And How AI Has Changed the Analyst Role

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥The Mark Up Game, Making of a Unicorn Founder, Capital Allocation's Death, AI Infra Eats Series A & More

Jul 22, 2026

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5 min read

💥The Mark Up Game, Making of a Unicorn Founder, Capital Allocation's Death, AI Infra Eats Series A & More

New insights from General Catalyst, Carta, Refinery Media, Stanford & more

Andre Retterath

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🔥What's Hot in M&A, Multiples by Sector, Concentration at the Top - Here's the State of the Market in July 2026

Jul 19, 2026

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6 min read

🔥What's Hot in M&A, Multiples by Sector, Concentration at the Top - Here's the State of the Market in July 2026

With fresh data from Anthropic, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike & more (..)

Andre Retterath

Essays

✍️Top 10 Takeaways from the Data Driven VC Landscape 2026

Jul 17, 2026

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2 min read

✍️Top 10 Takeaways from the Data Driven VC Landscape 2026

TL;DR version of the state of AI for Investors

Andre Retterath

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💥AI Kills Junior VC Roles, Fundraising Benchmarks, Mega-Funds Eating Themselves, Founder Branding System & More

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

💥AI Kills Junior VC Roles, Fundraising Benchmarks, Mega-Funds Eating Themselves, Founder Branding System & More

New insights from Carta, Odin, Anthropic & more

Andre Retterath

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🔥How to Gain an Edge When Everyone Uses the Same AI Model

Jul 12, 2026

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2 min read

🔥How to Gain an Edge When Everyone Uses the Same AI Model

Deep Dive with Eight Roads, Offlline Ventures & Kruncher AI

Andre Retterath

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🚨The Data Driven VC Landscape 2026 Is Here🚨

Jul 9, 2026

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1 min read

🚨The Data Driven VC Landscape 2026 Is Here🚨

Learn how 345 firms leverage AI and automation to become more efficient and beat their peers

Andre Retterath

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🔥The Win Game: What Happens After Everyone Has Seen the Deal?

💥Fundraising Tips in a Consensus Market, Where to Invest in AI, Business Models Replacing SaaS, Fund Concentration Math & More

🔥World's Hottest Startups in September 2026

🔥AI Creates More Startups - But Fewer Winners

🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

🔥What Thousands of VC Agents Do All Day

💥VC Ranking Flaws, Borderless Founders, Tender Offers on the Rise, VC Network Atrophy & More

🎙️How I Invest: The AI-Native VC Firm

💥Top Employers to Create Outlier Founders, State of Pre-Seed, Cost of AI Talent, Tech Stack Ownership & More

🔥Record Investments, Slowing Economy - Here's the State of the Market in August 2026

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

💥Personal AI Operating Stack, What Got Hyped vs What Got Built, How VCs Decide & More

🔥Do Investors Still Need a Lawyer?

🚨Join the DDVC Investor Track at Bits & Pretzels 2026 🥨

💥Why Job Descriptions Are Dead, Do Funds Need Developers?, Opportunities Across the AI Stack, AI GTM Strategies & More

🔥World's Hottest Startups in August 2026

🔥 Here's the Modern VC Tech Stack

💥How Top 5% VCs Keep Winning, Time Between Rounds, Reserve Strategies, State of SPVs & More

The Analyst Role Is Dead, No?

💥The Mark Up Game, Making of a Unicorn Founder, Capital Allocation's Death, AI Infra Eats Series A & More

🔥What's Hot in M&A, Multiples by Sector, Concentration at the Top - Here's the State of the Market in July 2026

✍️Top 10 Takeaways from the Data Driven VC Landscape 2026

💥AI Kills Junior VC Roles, Fundraising Benchmarks, Mega-Funds Eating Themselves, Founder Branding System & More

🔥How to Gain an Edge When Everyone Uses the Same AI Model

🚨The Data Driven VC Landscape 2026 Is Here🚨

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