
Yuliya Chernova
Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter @WSJ @WSJVC. Startups, VC, tech. Living it up in Brooklyn, the immigrant parts. [email protected]
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wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova
Venture-backed tech companies are testing the market, but have made peace with the idea that the lush private valuations of years ago are a thing of the pastMay 21, 2025 5:30 am ET|WSJ ProVenture-backed tech companies are gearing up to go public again, after a halt caused by the global trade war and the ensuing market jolts. But those startup debutantes are still likely to be priced below their private valuations.
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venturecapital.cmail19.com | Yuliya Chernova
Good day. A new venture firm is in the works to invest in early-stage consumer companies, a corner of the startup world that has struggled to attract funding in recent years. Vanessa Larco, a former partner at venture firm New Enterprise Associates, and Mercedes Bent, previously a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, are creating Premise to back consumer software and related startups, according to people familiar with their plans.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova
Believing that AI will fundamentally alter consumer behavior, the two former NEA, Lightspeed partners have set up PremiseMay 19, 2025 4:24 pm ET|WSJ ProA new venture firm is in the works to invest in early-stage consumer companies, a corner of the startup world that has struggled to attract funding in recent years.
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3 weeks ago |
createsend.com | Yuliya Chernova
Good day. Many venture investors hailed the release of DeepSeek’s open-source technology as a sea change that would slash costs and fatten margins for app startups built on generative AI foundation models. “From an investor standpoint, this could be a huge unlock for the future of AI applications. We may be on the verge of an explosion of AI applications,” said Pete Soderling, founder and general partner at early-stage venture firm Zero Prime Ventures.
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Stopped by @mattturck ‘s #DataDrivenNYC. Matt: Have you seen cases where companies aren’t hiring because of AI tools? @gsivulka: I think we are running out of time... (A few minutes ago he was talking about infinite “AI employees”)

Venture deal activity dropped 24% last week compared with the average for the prior 13 weeks, according to CB Insights, suggesting a fast reaction to macroeconomic changes https://t.co/vieqTI04ow via @WSJ

Scoop: Brian O’Malley, a former managing partner at venture firm Forerunner, is looking to raise a $100 million fund for consumer deals, a sector that has fallen out of favor with VCs https://t.co/aTMKT2RiSw