We curate most relevant posts about Venture Capital on LinkedIn and regularly share key takeaways. This edition provides a comprehensive overview of the current venture capital landscape, focusing heavily on fundraising strategies and market dynamics. Several sources emphasise the importance of founder preparedness, advocating for techniques like leveraging warm introductions to investors and adopting a sales-funnel approach to managing the fundraising process. Critical analyses point out structural issues, such as European VCs chronically underfunding early-stage companies and the dangers of excessive founder dilution and harmful term sheet clauses like redemption rights. A significant theme across the reports is the immense and potentially unsustainable concentration of capital in AI startups, which dominates deal value and exit activity, while the broader VC ecosystem grapples with shrinking fund numbers and the need for greater ethical standards and a more data-driven approach. This podcast was created via Google Notebook LM.