Yuliya Chernova
Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter @WSJ @WSJVC. Startups, VC, tech. Living it up in Brooklyn, the immigrant parts. [email protected] #IStandWithEvan
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1 week ago |
createsend.com | Yuliya Chernova
Good day. Global information-tech spending will grow at a slower 5% to 7% pace this year, far less than the previously expected 9%, according to a revised forecast by S&P Global Ratings. The reason is tariffs–and their economic ramifications.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova
The company, in its fifth year of development, has venture-capital support and agreements with railroad companies for pilot testingApril 28, 2025 6:00 am ET|WSJ ProStartup company Remora recently bought a 4,400-horsepower locomotive that is about to be delivered this week to its parking lot in the Detroit suburbs via a new rail spur.
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2 weeks ago |
createsend.com | Yuliya Chernova
Good day. For Matt Murphy, partner at Menlo Ventures, Tuesday was a good day. Two companies that he backed years ago while a general partner at Kleiner Perkins announced deals that would return money to their investors. These deals illustrate that there is an appetite for business software companies from acquirers. They also show that an exit can take a long time and that prices paid are far from stratospheric.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova
Liu Jiang, founder of Sunflower Capital, raised the firm’s second fund in just a month from about 20 institutionsApril 23, 2025 6:00 am ET|WSJ ProIt took seed venture firm Sunflower Capital a few weeks to raise $150 million for its second fund—a timeline that is almost unheard of in today’s slow venture market. Sunflower was founded by Liu Jiang, a former partner at Sequoia Capital who, at 30 years of age, already has a decade of venture investing experience.
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4 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova
April 16, 2025 6:00 am ET|WSJ ProThe venture market slowed last week, new data shows, indicating an immediate impact of the broader economic uncertainty on private markets. The number of venture deals done in the U.S. last week dropped 24% versus the weekly average for the previous 13 weeks, according to data from CB Insights. The research firm recorded 104 U.S. venture deals between April 7 and April 11, down from the previous weekly average of 137 investments.
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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
