Zero Shot, a new VC launched by former OpenAI engineers, has quietly closed $20 million toward a $100 million target and is sending a single clear market signal: deployable, revenue‑adjacent AI gets priority; “vibe” ideas and speculative foundational plays do not. A technical gatekeeper not a hype fund Founding partners Evan Morikawa (ex‑head of applied […]
Air Street Capital’s newly closed $232 million Fund III is Europe’s largest solo-GP venture vehicle focused on AI-first startups. The fund rewrites a familiar distribution of power in European VC: faster, single-decision bets across software, science, physical AI and defense rather than committee-led, generalist rounds. What the fund can do fast and why that matters […]
Google and Accel’s Atoms accelerator received more than 4,000 applications for its 2026 cohort and turned down roughly 70% as “AI wrappers” — startups that bolt AI features onto existing products without rethinking the underlying workflow. Instead, the program selected five companies that promise deeper, workflow-level change and committed up to $2 million each plus […]
