Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund

The Pan-African venture firm has raised $84 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not…

Fox’s Red Seat Ventures, Amazon Strike Programmatic Advertising Partnership

Fox Corp.’s Red Seat Ventures is the latest entity to strike up a partnership with Amazon in a bid to give advertisers broader reach in programmatic venues. Amazon will give advertisers…

How ‘Descendants 5’ Ventures Further Into the World of Wonderland and Introduces New Characters (Hello, Chessy the Cat!)

Disney’s movie continues the story of Red and Chloe, picking up from where the events in the fourth film left off: “One of the big lessons that you find out…

Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund

Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.