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Why Most LPs Are Underexposed to Deep Tech Relative to Their Stated Thesis
Deep tech is now a third of global VC funding, but most LP portfolios haven't caught up. Data on allocation, returns, and why the gap exists.
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Sep 24, 2026
A practical guide for LPs evaluating emerging VC managers, from investment judgment and deal flow to strategy, alignment and fund mathematics.
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Aug 17, 2026
Most accelerators leave startups worse off than no accelerator at all. A look at the data behind Y Combinator, Airbnb, and the accelerator selection myth.
Jul 21, 2026
Deep tech is now a third of global VC funding, but most LP portfolios haven't caught up. Data on allocation, returns, and why the gap exists.
Jul 7, 2026
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HIDDEN WISDOM Newsletter
Signal over noise. Once a month.
Hidden Wisdom decodes the forces driving technology globally. Expect market context and insights that span the world of emerging technology.
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Would You Watch Someone Die?
The U.S. may livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad. What happens when state violence becomes transparent, permanent, and consumable online?
Carmelo
Oct 14, 2026
The Code That "Says" It Loves You
AI companions sell relief from loneliness. But what do they cost us in our capacity for real connection?
Evelin Csányi, PhD
Jun 09, 2026
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Sasha Asheghi
Jan 06, 2026
The Things Beneath Us
We’re trying to build intelligence greater than our own while discovering, once again, what humans do when something cannot fight back.
Carmelo
Oct 07, 2026
FIELD NOTES #00: Vibe-Coded Founders, AI Slop & Other September Debris
Experiments, unfinished theories, useful things, dead ideas, strange obsessions, and other debris from inside my overworked coconut. Welcome to Field Notes.
Carmelo
Sep 30, 2026
Why Does Everything Have to Scale?
I make a living investing in companies that need to become enormous. I’m not convinced everything else should have to do the same.
Carmelo
Sep 23, 2026
Nobody Is Driving
AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI a
Carmelo
Sep 16, 2026
The Human Is Becoming Latency
Humanity would very much like to keep a human in charge of the killer robots. Unfortunately, humans are increasingly becoming the slowest part of the system.
Carmelo
Sep 09, 2026
The ROI of Staring at a Wall
Twenty minutes. No phone, no music, no work. I tried meditating for two weeks and accidentally turned doing nothing into another performance metric.
Carmelo
Sep 02, 2026
Tech Doesn’t Understand Why You Don’t Like It
Tech companies say people don’t understand the future. Maybe the bigger problem is that tech no longer understands the people expected to live in it.
Carmelo
Aug 26, 2026
The Internet Was Better When It Was Worse
Myspace was ugly, slow, chaotic, and deeply human. As the internet became cleaner, smarter, and more personalized, we may have accidentally lost something valuable along the way.
Carmelo
Aug 19, 2026
The Internet Ouroboros
AI ate the human internet. Now it is coming back for the fossils. Somewhere, some way, somebody out there is buying an awful lot of old books. Not Hemingway first editions or illuminated, gold-leaf
Carmelo
Aug 12, 2026
Everyone Is Asking Someone Else for Money
Founders ask VCs. VCs ask LPs. Somewhere above them, someone richer is still saying no. A personal essay about money, status, bad pitches, conditional affection, and the strange humility of asking for
Carmelo
Aug 05, 2026
Music for People Who Aren’t Listening
I once played live music for a Russian oligarch who never once looked at the stage. That gig is where this piece on Suno, copyright, and the AFM's lawsuit against Warner and Universal begins.
Carmelo
Jul 29, 2026
The Most Observed Event in Human History
The 2026 World Cup became a global test bed for facial recognition, robot dogs, counter-drone systems, and surveillance infrastructure built to last.
Carmelo
Jul 22, 2026
Confessions of a Compromised Capitalist
From homeless anti-capitalist to venture capitalist, a personal essay on power, hypocrisy, and the unresolved question of whether capital can be used with a conscience.
Carmelo
Jul 15, 2026
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Wavemaker, ADB Ventures back battery startup in $4m seed
Oct 19, 2026
AIsa Raises Total Funding Above $9 Million With Tether…
Oct 18, 2026
Tether Backs AI Startup As Funding Tops $9 Million In Push Toward Autonomous Payments
Oct 17, 2026
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup Batch
Oct 16, 2026
Step by Step Guide to Generating Offline Seed Phrases with…
Oct 16, 2026
Stablecoins Take Aim at Cash Locked in Prefunding
Oct 16, 2026
Claude traces the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds
Oct 16, 2026
AI cloud Modal raises $750m in Series D funding round
Oct 16, 2026
Daily Indian Funding Roundup & Key News - 16 October 2026: RapidCanvas Raises $29 Million, Urban Company Clears ₹2,500 Crore Fundraise
Oct 16, 2026
Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
Oct 16, 2026
Stockholm startup Matters raises $5m pre-seed to build an AI-native bank
Oct 16, 2026
North.cloud bags $60M in funding to help businesses keep runaway cloud costs in check
Oct 16, 2026
ByteDance’s Seed AI launches global AI safety hiring drive
Oct 16, 2026
Mueon nabs $65M in funding to develop 3D computing modules
Oct 16, 2026
Visa stablecoin prefunding moves to commercial use
Oct 16, 2026
Binance.US Seeks Up to $100 Million in Funding at $1…
Oct 15, 2026
Kitchen Secret Raises INR 1.14 Crore in Seed Round Led by BeyondSeed to Fuel Its Next Phase of Growth
Oct 15, 2026
Daily Indian Funding Roundup & Key News - 15 October 2026: Confido Health Raises $12.5 Million, Jio Platforms Sets IPO Price Band
Oct 15, 2026
120ft raises angel funding to build autonomous microfactories run by humanoid robots
Oct 15, 2026
Indian banking AI startup RevRag raises $2.5m seed round
Oct 15, 2026
Daily Indian Funding Roundup & Key News - 14 October 2026: GreenCell Mobility Raises ₹330 Crore, Groww Q2 Profit Jumps 54%
Oct 14, 2026
DriveWealth Taps Ripple’s RLUSD to Close the Funding Gap in…
Oct 14, 2026
SEC committee sets October 27 meeting on IPO modernization, crowdfunding
Oct 14, 2026
Cachet raises new funding to insure Europe’s gig and mobility platforms
Oct 14, 2026
Beenext, Lotus lead $2m pre-seed for AI startup Miracly
Oct 14, 2026
SEA financials tracker: Funding Societies grows revenue by 24%
Oct 14, 2026
Thai fintech firm Salary Hero raises $7.6m series A
Oct 14, 2026
Pluto Security emerges from stealth with $42M in funding
Oct 13, 2026
DayOne secures $3.67bn in funding for Malaysia expansion
Oct 13, 2026
Daily Indian Funding Roundup & Key News - 13 October 2026: Boldfit Raises ₹400 Crore, NPCI Defers UPI MDR Till After Diwali
Oct 13, 2026