Eric Newcomer

1 week ago | newcomer.co | Eric Newcomer

I have to admit that I’m guilty of the ultimate American vice: hubris. I’ve been planning a cornerstone artificial intelligence event in London but I haven’t set foot in London outside Heathrow since I was a child. I’m in Rome right now. I’ll be in London Sunday evening. Thankfully, the European startup community has rallied around the Cerebral Valley AI Summit — and with my co-hosts at Volley — we’re so excited to bring our mid-year summit to London this coming Wednesday.

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Eric Newcomer

Where technology and venture capital intersect: A deeply reported newsletter on the inner workings of the startup industry. Helmed by Eric Newcomer with writing from Madeline Renbarger. Over 101,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“Eric Newcomer is the rare Substack journalist who thrives on breaking news.

1 week ago | newcomer.co | Eric Newcomer

Substack is quietly fundraising on the back of exploding usage of its mobile app and a reignited enthusiasm for new political newsletters, thanks to President Donald Trump. The company believes its mobile application is becoming a powerful force for driving paid subscribers to the 500,000 creators now on its platform.

2 weeks ago | newcomer.co | Tom Dotan |Eric Newcomer

Once news of Meta’s investment in Scale broke, the myriad discussions rattling around the startup and AI world — and even among Scale’s own investors — could be boiled down to this: is this an Inflection, or is it an OpenAI? That is to say, did Meta invest approximately $15 billion in Scale to supercharge an outside startup while reaping some of the benefits and casting off its image as an AI stumbler (Microsoft-OpenAI).

2 weeks ago | newcomer.co | Eric Newcomer

Full transparency: I like the team at Bloomberg Beta. I worked at Bloomberg as a technology reporter for nearly six years before I started this newsletter. During my time at Bloomberg in San Francisco I got to know the team, including its leader Roy Bahat. So when Bahat came to me with the news that the firm is announcing its fifth fund — another $75 million fund from Bloomberg LP to back the earliest of early startups — I said he should talk about the decision exclusively on our Substack Live.