How AI will reshape our day-to-day search

With Metaphor as a new vehicle for search engines, Alex, the found of Metaphor, looks to redefine search, and provide the next generation with organic and context-based results. “Building the world’s most advanced search engine with language models.”

Revery.ai - Virtual Dressing Room and Its Metaverse Potential

Revery.ai recently joined TSVC’s portfolio, enriching the firm’s vision in deep-tech and computer vision. Revery.ai was founded in October 2020, by three talented computer science PhD students from UIUC. 

How to spot a unicorn: Don’t grow it — synthesize it!

Our investment in Ginkgo Biowroks - the largest bio-tech IPO in the history

NFT and Its Investment Opportunities

Despite the market crash, there are several emerging sectors that NFTs can prove to be very useful for. NFTs are an important aspect of decentralized finance; they can tokenize assets that are otherwise difficult to liquidate and trade; lastly, they appeal to the human desire for the need to be a part of a community and own valuables. 

PSA: Why there needs to be an institutional shift towards female founders

Systemic change needed for founder diversity

How an emerging VC can survive and thrive among the industry’s behemoths

Competition in today’s VC industry is hot and will only get fiercer. How can emerging VC survive?

“A few yes’s in a sea of no’s” - Founding advice from Bertrand Irissou

Givelist: A New Type of Giving Vehicle

A new family member in our Alpha Program and how it will disrupt the givings behaviors of Philanthroteens.

What Hype Trends in History Can Say About the AI Hype Today

How we see the hyped AI space differently?

What early stage opportunities we see by dissecting ARK Invest (Part II)

(Part II) We will share our thoughts on the underlying investment thesis for ARK’s top-position holdings, combined with our views on the early stage opportunities.

Carta and Cap Tables: How One Simple Idea Created a New Market

How one simple widget created Nasdaq for private markets?

Lessons in Grit: How Airbnb and Zeus Living Survived the Covid-19 Catastrophe

Founder resilience is one of the most crucial inputs in determining startup success. But how do you build this resilience?

What Early Stage Opportunities We See by Dissecting ARK Invest (Part I)

We will share our thoughts on the underlying investment thesis for ARK’s top-position holdings, combined with our views on the early stage opportunities. 

10 Reasons Why We Invest in Early-stage Startups

If investors are able to see deals mature before investing and know there is a higher likelihood of the startup not failing, then why does anybody bother to invest in early-stage startups? Particularly if it is such a high-risk market to be involved in and any pay off is likely to only come five, ten or even fifteen years later. 

Back to the Stone Age: The History of Social Media Leading to Clubhouse

Why Clubhouse becomes our new cave of contemporary stone age? We analyze this new social media from culture and technology perspectives.

Venture in the “Roaring 20s” -- Or, Looking for the Next Zoom

TSVC General Partner Spencer Greene share with us what's next big opportunities in the Roaring 20' and where we will find next Zoom and what sectors are we expecting to have tremendous changes.

Ginkgo Bioworks: How the Organism Company Grew Up

HIGHLIGHTS FROM FIRESIDE CHAT WITH AUSTIN CHE (Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks & Advisor for TSVC’s Alpha Program)

How Citcon and Paypal Are Teaming Up to Power America’s Touchless Payment Systems

HealthLane: Get quality and affordable healthcare in Africa

Brainome: Making data scientists 10x more productive