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StrictlyVC Download

by Connie Loizos & Alex Gove · English

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Each week TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos, and Alex Gove, a former journalist, VC and operating exec who today runs StrictlyVC, interview a mover and shaker in the world of tech

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What Limited Partners Want Now with TrueBridge Partners and LGT Partners

Limited partners (LPs) discuss what they want from venture firms now—especially amid AI-driven capital concentration, faster fund pacing, and evolving liquidity (IPOs, M&A, and secondaries).

10 Nov 2026 · 31m · 13 chapters

Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Public Backlash, Surveillance Expansion

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discusses why he founded the company, how Flock’s license-plate readers and other surveillance tools are used by police, and how the company has responded to public…

27 Oct 2026 · 37m · 16 chapters

Benchmark's Five Partners on AI, IPOs, and Silicon Valley's Comeback

Benchmark’s five current general partners discuss AI-era startup investing, Benchmark’s new $2B fund expansion (core fund inflation plus a growth/expansion “T1” fund), how they run meetings and make…

21 Oct 2026 · 44m · 16 chapters

Al Gore on the $4.5 Trillion Clean Energy Opportunity

Al Gore and Lila Preston discuss the clean-energy investment opportunity ($4.5T needed by early 2030s), AI-driven electricity demand, and backlash to data centers.

24 Sep 2026 · 32m · 15 chapters

Keith Rabois on Why the AI Bubble Fears Are Overblown

Keith Rabois, managing director at Coastal Ventures, argues AI “bubble” fears are overblown.

15 Sep 2026 · 27m · 13 chapters

Grindr CEO is betting on AI to solve online dating's biggest problem

George Arison, CEO of Grindr, explains how he’s turned the dating app around after years of ownership turmoil, and why Grindr is betting on AI to improve matching, monetize with a new premium tier…

2 Sep 2026 · 42m · 18 chapters

The Anti-a16z? Vijay Pande’s Bet on a Tiny, AI-Native VC Firm

Vijay Pande (ex-a16z biotech leader) explains why he left to start VZVC, a tiny, AI-native VC firm betting on concentrated investments.

26 Aug 2026 · 35m · 18 chapters

Equity Replay: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says the lesson for founders now is that a great model isn't enough

Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy discusses why Anthropic’s growth happened so fast, how founders should think beyond “a great model,” the proprietary vs open-source shift driven by cost, and what…

4 Aug 2026 · 32m · 11 chapters

Why Founders Fund Backed a Fish Robotics Startup

Shinkai (Ceremony) is reshoring American seafood by using robotics and computer vision to humanely euthanize fish immediately after capture, then vertically integrating processing and distribution to…

28 Jul 2026 · 23m · 11 chapters

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