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Ellie McDonald is a principal at Bison Ventures

The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t The Deal You Think It Is

By ‍Ellie McDonald Everywhere you look, venture headlines imply that seed rounds have meaningfully changed shape. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for a company that didn’t exist a week earlier. Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion out the gate. Unconventional AI hit $475 million two months after founding. It’s easy to read those headlines and

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China And AI Lead Asia’s Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2

Investment into Asia-based startups soared in the second quarter, boosted by a sharp rise in funding to China-based companies and AI startups. Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. That’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years, as charted

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AI Is Pushing VMware Beyond Virtualization

How VCF 9.1 Reframes the Private Cloud Conversation For years, the VMware conversation was mostly about virtualization, consolidation, lifecycle management, and private cloud standardization. Those topics still matter. They are not going away. But AI has changed the center of gravity. The question is no longer just, “Can the platform run VMs reliably?” The better

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