Your AI Category Sets Your Round
I read 61,691 VC newsletters and pulled 239 AI funding rounds. Median round size swings 5x depending on which vertical you're in.
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The Miners Are Landlords Now
Ten funds wrote about the money, while one wrote about the price. I felt like it mattered.
How to Build a Bitcoin Conference in a Bear Market
I interviewed the team behind BTCHEL, the Nordics' biggest Bitcoin conference, on how they built it, sold it, and why they think that downturns are the best ops.
The 1,400-VC Brief: CapEx and Hard Tech
Cross-fund patterns, and market movements. What 1,400 VCs wrote this week, and what founders should do. Big Tech is now spending 102% of operating cash flow on AI.
What VCs Stopped Writing About
VCs went quiet on DeFi and climate in 2026. DeFi matured; climate became "AI infrastructure." Where funding actually moved. What do investors like.
The Bitcoin Money Isn't in Bitcoin
What VC articles reveal about where Bitcoin capital actually goes. Crypto VC info for founders and investors raising.
The 1,400-VC Brief:Agents, Wall Street
This is the weekly research we run across 1,400+ VC newsletters for narratives, cross-fund patterns, and market movements.
VCs Don't Agree on AI Spending
Who's still funding scale, who's asking for revenue, and how to pitch each.
The 1,400-VC Brief: IPOs, Crypto, Atoms
This is the weekly research we run across 1,400+ VC newsletters for narratives, cross-fund patterns, and market movements. VC Intel Crypto digest for founders and investors
Founder Problems Our App Solves
Why should you care about what we built? We take you on a journey around our app, tie it directly to founders' problems and solutions.
Don't Build a Fourth Way for AI to Pay
Nine VC firms wrote about agent payments this week. 645 Ventures says the rails already belong to incumbents. Two layers are still open.
170+ Investors Interested in Stablecoins
Get the list and how to use it. Included: 172 firms ranked by conviction, 271 stablecoin deals, their top topics, 90-day activity, and contact links.
The 1,400-VC Brief: Open Models and Stablecoins
This is the weekly research we run across 1,400+ VC newsletters for narratives, cross-fund patterns, and market movements.
The State of Stablecoins
Stablecoins were the big topic this week. So we break down the niches founders should build in, and which funds to watch.
The 1,400-VC Brief: Real Money, Fake Rally
We read 600+ VC newsletters for narratives, cross-fund patterns, and market movements. Stablecoins and tokenization went live, money kept flooding AI, and Bitcoin's bounce ran on leverage.
Crypto Growth Didn't Come from Crypto
Byblos reads what 500+ Web3 VC firms publish. This week the users and the money went to payment tools and to big companies adding crypto to products they already run. Not to tokens.
Don't Build a Prediction Market Exchange
Byblos tracks what 500+ Web3 VC firms publish. Over the last six months, 68 of them wrote about prediction markets — 351 articles. But trust is, this isn’t a sign to build one.
The 1,400-VC Brief: Money, AI, and Crypto
Three signals from 700+ investor newsletters: stablecoins go mainstream, AI money keeps flooding in, and crypto gets a stress test.
VCs say "Have a Small Team"
We continued researching how Wall Street and institutions are piling onto crypto rails; and also discovered that solo founders are getting more and more money. Maybe, the younger, the better?
The 1,400-VC Brief: AI Infra, Stablecoins, Quantum
The extended premium briefing from Byblos: lifecycle of themes and sectors in fundraising this last week, and the data on loud/quiet funds, and how to approach each.
VCs fund the Layer above the Model
Plus: the smart money already crossed into Chinese open models, and the stablecoin fight moved to the money behind the coin.