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Breaking Down Harvard’s $56.9B Endowment: A 400-Year Experiment in Long-Term Thinking
Nearly four centuries ago, a young Puritan minister named John Harvard donated half of his estate and his personal library to a fledgling college in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. Just a few years later, donor Ann Radcliffe contributed 100 pounds to fund the institution’s earliest scholarships. These acts of generosity planted the seed for what would become the oldest continuous investment fund in the United States, and today, the world’s largest academic endowment, valued at
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AI Drives Venture Capital in 2025, But Money Flows to Only a Few
AI has become the driving force of venture capital in 2025, but the surge in capital isn’t as broad as the headlines might suggest....
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The Hidden Calendar of VC Fundraising: How to Time Your Raise for Maximum Leverage
Fundraising is never simply a matter of having a great product or a bold vision. As Omri Drory, Ph.D., General Partner at NFX, observes,...
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Southeast Asia Has $60 Billion AI Boom, But Its Own Startups Are Missing Out
Southeast Asia has become a focal point for global tech giants like Nvidia and Microsoft, who are investing heavily in cloud services and...
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