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Covers:  Top venture capital funds from a GP and LP perspective. Scoops about fund launches, blow ups, capital flows, people moves and more. And always on the lookout for trends.
Doesn't Cover: Not a fan of the blanket embargo.
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Steve Cohen Quietly Setting Up Crypto-only Asset Manager

Steve Cohen Quietly Setting Up Crypto-only Asset Manager

Blockworks exclusive: The move to create a separate entity reflects Steve Cohen's increasing bullishness on c…

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A Teenager Enlisted for US' Iraq Invasion: Now He's a Crypto CIO

A Teenager Enlisted for US' Iraq Invasion: Now He's a Crypto CIO

Nico Cordeiro's journey to crypto took an unorthodox path through Iraq and Afghanistan. Here's what being a s…

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OK, You Blew Up Your Crypto Fund. What Do You Tell Your LPs?

OK, You Blew Up Your Crypto Fund. What Do You Tell Your LPs?

The sudden "radio silence" from typically forthright crypto traders has been driving their investors "all but…

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Anthony Scaramucci's Bitcoin Fund Dropped 36.6% As Bitcoin Whipsawed in May

Anthony Scaramucci's Bitcoin Fund Dropped 36.6% As Bitcoin Whipsawed in May

SkyBridge Capital's flagship Bitcoin strategy was still up 18.7% YTD through the end of June

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Abra Shakes Up Senior Staff as Crypto Bank Plans Near, Sources Say

Abra Shakes Up Senior Staff as Crypto Bank Plans Near, Sources Say

Abra, a company with aspirations to become the US' first regulated crypto bank, has taken a hard look at cost…

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Tiger Global Sidestepped Crypto Rout by Cashing Out When Going Was Good

Tiger Global Sidestepped Crypto Rout by Cashing Out When Going Was Good

Blockworks Exclusive: Hedge fund firm Tiger Global sold most of its crypto holdings at a profit several month…

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Genesis Parts Ways With Sales Staffers, Said To Spell More Bad Tidings

Genesis Parts Ways With Sales Staffers, Said To Spell More Bad Tidings

Crypto brokerage Genesis has recently consulted restructuring specialists on the possibility of spinning out …

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FTX Nixes Potential Down Venture Raise, Embarks On Hiring Push

FTX Nixes Potential Down Venture Raise, Embarks On Hiring Push

Blockworks exclusive: Crypto exchange FTX recently scuttled plans to raise yet another venture round at a sig…

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Multicoin Lost More Than Half Its Crypto Fund's Capital This Month: Sources

Multicoin Lost More Than Half Its Crypto Fund's Capital This Month: Sources

The drop of about 55% - one of the worst in Multicoin Capital's history - was triggered by FTX's rapid descen…

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With Litigation Likely, Venture Fund DeFiance Takes Aim at Three Arrows Capital

With Litigation Likely, Venture Fund DeFiance Takes Aim at Three Arrows Capital

Blockworks exclusive: The hedge fund startup was incubated by Three Arrows, a then-favorable arrangement that…

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4th victim in West Oakland fire was mathematician from Nigeria

4th victim in West Oakland fire was mathematician from Nigeria

A fourth person killed in a fire at a West Oakland halfway house was identified Monday as a gifted mathematic…

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Another violent teen robbery on BART in Oakland - but this time, witness saves day

Another violent teen robbery on BART in Oakland - but this time, witness saves day

For the second time in three months, a large group of teenagers committed a violent robbery at BART's Coliseu…

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PG&E plugs fast-rising executive Geisha Williams into CEO role

PG&E plugs fast-rising executive Geisha Williams into CEO role

Williams, a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, is the first female, Hispanic CEO of a company PG&E's size, said Ton…

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At Stanford, Justice Ginsburg wishes for more civil discourse

At Stanford, Justice Ginsburg wishes for more civil discourse

Drawing parallels from her 83 years of life to the partisanship gripping the United States government, Suprem…

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UC Berkeley Greek groups halt parties after sex assaults reported

UC Berkeley Greek groups halt parties after sex assaults reported

For the first time, UC Berkeley student leaders - not administrators - have suspended parties at fraternities…

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UC Berkeley Greek parties back on, with new rules

UC Berkeley Greek parties back on, with new rules

UC Berkeley's Greek organizations agreed to new rules they say will keep students safer as they lifted an unp…

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Hundreds walk out of Stanford classes, demand 'sanctuary campus'

Hundreds walk out of Stanford classes, demand 'sanctuary campus'

More than 500 Stanford University students, faculty and staff members walked out of classrooms and ducked out…

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Marijuana Commerce Blossoms, But Challenges Abound

Marijuana Commerce Blossoms, But Challenges Abound

"I'm an entrepreneur. I've had businesses since I was 23 years old," Zerman said. "Everything about this busi…

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Inside the SF Laundromat basement where 2 dozen people lived

Inside the SF Laundromat basement where 2 dozen people lived

For nearly four years, Nicaraguan immigrant Claudia Blandon Soto lived in the basement of a Laundromat in San…

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For Mass. farmers, the ongoing drought is no joke - The Boston Globe

For Mass. farmers, the ongoing drought is no joke - The Boston Globe

SUDBURY - Along a dusty path wending through his farm fields, Chris Kurth eased a faded white Toyota pickup s…

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Eleven years after being approved, Montana's medical marijuana industry faces an existential thre...

Eleven years after being approved, Montana's medical marijuana industry faces an existential thre...

Editor's note: This is one in a series of articles on the legalization of marijuana, produced in partnership …

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Bernie Sanders challenges Trump, Dem establishment at UC Berkeley

Bernie Sanders challenges Trump, Dem establishment at UC Berkeley

The senator from Vermont and former presidential candidate offered his view on what went wrong in the Democra…

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McElhaney's ethics case headed to administrative law judge

McElhaney's ethics case headed to administrative law judge

For hours on end, not one of the dozens of people at a special meeting of Oakland's Public Ethics Commission …

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4 fires, 4 arsons at half-done housing sites in Oakland

4 fires, 4 arsons at half-done housing sites in Oakland

The fire that consumed an apartment and retail complex being built near downtown Oakland on Friday wasn't the…

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