Defense and venture capital used to rarely overlap, but that’s no longer the case. Defense tech VC dealmaking set a record in Q1 2026, and new VC firms have emerged around the world to invest solely in defense startups. One of these is two-year-old Protego Ventures, which presents itself as the first and largest dedicated
Keith Rabois has spent most of his 13-year career in venture capital associated with Khosla Ventures’ longtime home in Menlo Park, California. But that’s changing. Speaking Thursday night at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in New York’s West Village, Rabois confirmed that Khosla Ventures is opening its first-ever office outside Sand Hill Road. The new outpost will
Baobab Studios has secured a strategic investment from Naver Ventures, the U.S.-based venture investment arm of Naver Corporation, the 10-time Emmy-winning transmedia animation studio has revealed. Naver Corporation is one of South Korea’s largest internet companies and the parent of Webtoon Entertainment Inc. Variety understands the investment is worth seven figures and values Baobab above
Ventures Platform has raised an oversubscribed $84 million second fund as the Pan-African venture firm expands beyond its home market of Nigeria with a strategy shaped by a tougher, more selective venture market. The firm plans to back early-stage founders across a range of sectors, including fintech, healthcare, SaaS, and other areas “where technology can
Fiat Ventures on Tuesday said it is combining its growth consultancy and venture divisions under a new brand, FGV Capital, alongside the launch of its second fund, a $35 million vehicle. The fintech-focused firm’s general partners, Marcos Fernandez and Drew Glover, told TechCrunch that the decision to combine the businesses was to help founders, whether
Anthropic jumped to a revenue rate of $47 billion in May, up from $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the Internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500 million Series
