Thrive’s Kushner defends involvement in FIFA mess, hires Elon’s go-to lawyer TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 1 September 2026 at 22:30 New York's prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital finally speaks out about its involvement in the messy drama upending international soccer.
a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 1 September 2026 at 02:14 Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new funds to invest in startups.
A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 1 September 2026 at 01:14 Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.