Newcomer

Newcomer

A newsletter focusing on startups and venture capital, authored by Eric Newcomer.

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  • 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 | newcomer.co | Madeline Renbarger

    Paid subscribers get access to a table with the top venture AI roll-ups at the bottom of this post in addition to our in-depth reporting on deal activity. Subscribe to read the full story and see our reporting on the key AI roll-ups. The AI roll-up has officially gone mainstream. Large VC firms like General Catalyst, Thrive Capital, and 8VC are increasingly running the private equity playbook of buying legacy businesses and trying to improve their performance.

  • 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 | Jonathan Weber |Madeline Renbarger

    The Week in ShortSam Altman and what it takes to be the next Steve Jobs. Behind the paywall: Newly minted Y Combinator companies get funded as agents and dev tools storm the latest batch. Elon Musk rolls the dice with Austin robotaxis. Chime’s IPO a big win for some investors, not others, while Stripe and Automattic help ease the M&A drought.

  • 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).

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