When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said on stage at a recent StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. More than…
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Asian Chinese senior woman using smart phone reading text message in living room of her apartment in citygetty Earlier this year, OpenAI released ChatGPT Health, offering digitally-savvy consumers a tool to aggregate health data scattered across disparate sites and portals. Chronic disease burden and costs in the US is most often disproportionately centered in underserved…
In Brief Posted: 1:17 PM PDT · May 16, 2026 Image Credits:z_wei / Getty Images The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in…
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The conversation in financial markets used to be simple: find the growth, buy the growth, wait for the growth to show up in earnings. That conversation is getting more complicated. The themes drawing sustained institutional capital in 2026 are not concentrated in a single sector or technology…





