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Three Things Seed Stage Founders Need Most from VCs

John Vrionis breaks down the three core components necessary to deliver excellent service in VC.

“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers – World Sensorium / Conservancy

A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming.

Introducing The Unusual Method

From Unusual Ventures’ inception, our mission has been clear: to redefine seed stage investing and build a firm that would provide founders with a distinct advantage through the hardest leg of a startup journey—from Idea to Product Market fit. Today we’ve taken an important step towards fulfilling our mission. We are proud to officially make available The Unusual Method and our Unusual Field Guide.

Raising the Bar Even Higher for Seed Stage Founders

We are thrilled to announce that we have raised our second fund of $400M to continue executing on our vision to raise the bar higher for early stage founders.

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America’s Seed Fund – NSF SBIR/STTR | NSF SBIR

America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation (NSF SBIR/STTR) supports startups with research and development funding to create technologies.

In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more

Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…

alphaXiv Raises $7M Seed Round to Bridge the AI Research-to-Practice Divide

/PRNewswire/ -- alphaXiv, a platform reimagining how AI practitioners discover and apply the latest research, today announced its $7M Seed round. The funding...

Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself

The long read: Tech insiders have finally started admitting their mistakes – but the solutions they are offering could just help the big players get even more powerful

Funds that lead pre-seeds — Curated VC Funds

A curated list of investors who write first checks at the earliest stage, backing founders before traction when conviction matters most. View this sheet and more on VC Sheet, where founders find the right investors for their round. Curated by Mat Vogels.

How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026

In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…

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