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We asked readers, last year's rising stars, and industry leaders to name the top rising star VCs of 2022. After a record breaking year for venture capital in 2021, the tech and startups industry faced a much more tumultuous economic climate in 2022. And many young enterprising venture capitalists were able to source lucrative deals in top startups and wow their peers as up-and-coming stars in the industry. For the first time, there are more women on the list then men, which shows that more women are being brought into the pipeline of the traditionally male-dominated venture capital industry. Read on to see 2022's rising stars of venture capital, organized alphabetically by the investor's name.

☆ House Oversight Committee to host Club Q shooting survivors in hearing on anti-LGBTQ threats
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ali-Vitali-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Ali Vitali | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — Less than a month after a deadly shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, the House Oversight Committee will host survivors for a hearing on violence and threats against LGBTQ people, NBC News has learned. The Dec. 14 hearing will include testimony from bartender Michael Anderson and from James Slaugh, both of whom survived the Club Q shooting, as well as the club’s founding partner and co-owner Matthew Haynes, the committee told NBC News. The panel will also hear from Brandon Wolf, who survived the 2016 shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, where a gunman killed 49 people. In November, a gunman opened fire at Club Q with a semiautomatic rifle, killing five people and injuring 17 others. “These attacks, like the one at Club Q, are designed to scare us from living authentically and honestly," he said.

☆ Meet the small hedge fund that thinks it can oust Larry Fink from BlackRock
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The fund has a tiny stake in BlackRock and is calling for the firm to replace Larry Fink as CEO. On one side stands a small, relatively unknown activist hedge fund with a tiny stake in a giant company. 1, the young hedge fund run by a longtime activist investor, and ExxonMobil. Joining a wave of heavy scrutiny of BlackRock and Fink over ESG, Bluebell accused BlackRock of a hypocritical posture toward sustainable investing, according to the letter, which was viewed by Insider. Bloomberg News ran the headline: "Tiny Activist Bluebell Quickly Becomes CEOs' Worst Nightmare."

☆ I fill executive-assistant jobs at tech companies that pay up to $250,000 a year. There's a surprisingly low barrier to entry — I just look for these traits in people.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Jessica Vann recruits executive assistants for companies like Okta at her company Maven. She says executive assistants are nothing like secretaries — they're the eyes and ears of a leader. After all, an executive assistant preserves a company's scarcest and most precious resource: the leader of the organization. Raising issues to an executive assistant can give the executive the opportunity to intervene while there's still a chance. Are you a recruiter or executive assistant at a major tech company?

The effort, known as the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, was launched in late 2020 to encourage fund firms to reach net zero emission targets by 2050 and limit the rise in global temperatures. As of Nov. 9, NZAM counted 291 signatories representing some $66 trillion in assets under management. As recently as May Vanguard was touting commitments it had made in line with NZAM's goals. Vanguard said the change "will not affect our commitment to helping our investors navigate the risks that climate change can pose to their long-term returns." "Vanguard was never serious about implementing its net zero commitment" Cuvelier said in a statement.

On its face, Moore v. Harper, the case being considered by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, deals with whether the North Carolina Supreme Court acted within its rights last year. In 2021, the state's highest court overturned the congressional redistricting maps drawn by the GOP-controlled state Legislature for being gerrymandered along partisan lines. The Independent State Legislature doctrine could open the door to giving state legislators the power to decide, for example, which presidential candidate will receive their state’s Electoral College votes. With the Supreme Court potentially lending their imprimatur to ISL this spring, each state legislative election could put the integrity of our democracy at risk. For those of us who believe in democracy, that means only one thing: We cannot rest on our laurels.

☆ Disney CEO Bob Iger is focused on repairing the company's creative engine, says Puck's Matt Belloni
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDisney CEO Bob Iger is focused on repairing the company's creative engine, says Puck's Matt BelloniMatthew Belloni, Puck founding partner, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss the obstacles facing returning Disney CEO Bob Iger, including picking a successor and fixing high prices at the parks.

☆ 4 college friends turned $1 million into a New York venture-capital empire backing tech's hottest unicorns. Here's how they did it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Founded as the side project of four college friends, Eniac Ventures has become a major player in VC. They named the firm Eniac Ventures, after the first electronic computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania's engineering school, where the four had met. What started as the side hustle of four college buddies has become a powerhouse of the venture-capital industry, backing some of tech's hottest unicorns. And Eniac has invested alongside some of the biggest names in venture, including Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates. Vasen met the Eniac partners at an event they hosted for prospective founders at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco.

☆ Greene: The current bear market hasn't been invalidated yet
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGreene: The current bear market hasn't been invalidated yetVictoria Greene, Founding Partner of G Squared Private Wealth, joins Worldwide Exchange to discuss the trading week ahead.

☆ Kilduff: We are facing a supply cliff from Russia when the EU embargo kicks in next month
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailKilduff: We are facing a supply cliff from Russia when the EU embargo kicks in next monthJohn Kilduff, Founding Partner at Again Capital, joins Worldwide Exchange to discuss the outlook for oil ahead of OPEC's December meeting.

☆ Lower valuations, regulatory crackdowns, and a push for DeFi: 5 VCs break down their crypto-market outlooks after FTX's swift downfall
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

FTX, the crypto exchange once worth $32 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov 11. FTX, the crypto exchange reportedly worth $32 billion in February, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov. 11. A regulatory crackdown and the bull case for DeFiInsider asked five venture investors about their biggest takeaways from the fallout. "First, the crypto market is being de-leveraged, which paves the way for the next upturn. Risks of FTX's downfall could have been mitigated with a "hands on approach" by venture investors.

☆ Bob Iger is going to face tough choices at Disney, says Michael Nathanson
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBob Iger is going to face tough choices at Disney, says Michael NathansonMichael Nathanson, MoffettNathanson founding partner and senior research analyst, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to react to Bob Iger's return to Disney as CEO.

☆ Real-estate tech firms are getting hammered by a cataclysmic reckoning that one VC called a cross between the 2001 dot-com bust and the 2008 market crash
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The proptech sector is battling two challenges at once: a slowing housing market and a tech bust. For almost a decade, a growing group of companies have thrived by introducing tech innovations to a stubbornly analog real-estate industry. "Now we're seeing something that feels like a confluence between the 2001 dot-com bust in the venture-capital world and the 2008 market crash in real estate. Shares of both Opendoor and Redfin, which once drew investor attention to the soaring proptech industry, are worth roughly one-tenth what where they were a year ago. The company hasn't laid off any of its 300-person staff — including a roughly 50-person tech team — and doesn't plan to, Matthews said.

☆ Top Hollywood lawyer Bryan Freedman paid a $40,000 settlement after being accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old while in college
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But clients may not know that Freedman, 58, was accused of sexual assault in the 1980s and paid a $40,000 settlement to the accuser. She said that instead of taking her there, the men brought her to the nearby Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. The plaintiff said she and her friend then returned to Zeta Beta Tau to retrieve her shoe and car key. The 17-year-old and her parents sued Freedman and the two other fraternity brothers, as well as Zeta Beta Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon. (Zeta Beta Tau and the other college students accused of sexual assault also agreed to pay settlements, none of which admitted liability.)

☆ Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt made all the wrong big decisions, says Puck News' William Cohan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer GE CEO Jeff Immelt made all the wrong big decisions, says Puck News' William CohanWilliam Cohan, Puck News founding partner, joins to discuss his new book about the rise and fall of General Electric, 'Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.'

☆ Three-Stock Lunch: TSM, BBWI & CP
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThree-Stock Lunch: TSM, BBWI & CPVictoria Greene, founding partner and CIO at G Squared Private Wealth, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss her picks for the Three-Stock Lunch: Taiwan Semi, Bath and Body Works, as well as Canadian Pacific.

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Squire Patton Boggs on Monday said it will open an office in Dublin next year, becoming the latest international law firm to expand into Ireland. Agnew was a founding partner of Pinsent Masons' Dublin office. A Squire Patton Boggs spokesperson said the firm is currently looking at space in Dublin's central business district. Agnew said in an email that the exact timing of his departure from Pinsent Masons "has still to be agreed." Squire Patton Boggs was created in 2014 by the merger of Washington, D.C.-founded Patton Boggs and Cleveland-founded Squire Sanders.

☆ Crypto is not dead, but it will be a lot smaller because of FTX, says 8VC's Joe Lonsdale
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCrypto is not dead, but it will be a lot smaller because of FTX, says 8VC's Joe LonsdaleJoe Lonsdale, 8VC founding partner and co-founder of Palantir, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss the fallout of crypto exchange FTX and what it means for the crypto industry.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried steps down as FTX CEO as his crypto exchange files for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022. Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S., according to a company statement posted on Twitter. CNBC reached out to Adam Landis, founding partner of Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, who filed the Chapter 11 proceedings on behalf of FTX. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried admitted on Thursday that he "f---ed up." The Chapter 11 proceedings exclude the following subsidiaries: LedgerX LLC, FTX Digital Markets Ltd., FTX Australia Pty Ltd., and FTX Express Pay Ltd.

☆ Tiger Global, Coatue, and other hedge funds tried to upend venture capital. It backfired and now they're 'licking their wounds,' VCs say.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

New investments by Tiger Global and Coatue fell 60% and 67%, respectively, this year. "They're licking their wounds," said Nihal Mehta, a founding partner at Eniac Ventures, whose portfolio includes the marketing-tech startup Attentive, a crown jewel of Tiger Global and Coatue's portfolios. Speaking to founders, Mehta hears crossover funds come up less and less in conversation, and partners at some crossover funds tell him they're pulling back from new deals, though crossover funds haven't disappeared altogether. Crossover funds found themselves with billions of dollars in deployed capital and few exits in sight. Last month, Tiger Global and Coatue both revealed they are seeking to raise new funds earmarked for early-stage startup deals.

☆ With $10.5 million in supergiant seed funding, Caraway launches to bring personalized telehealth to Gen Z women in college
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Caraway is a healthtech startup for college women that offers mental, physical, and reproductive care. This woman's experience is one example of how Caraway says it is working to provide personalized mental, physical, and reproductive health services via telehealth to Gen Z women in college. Care specialists provide direct education for students on mental health too, such as techniques to de-escalate stress and anxiety flare-ups. Other startups like Mantra Health, which raised a $22 million Series A last year, also focus on mental health for college students. So far, the startup has 13 "Caraway Campus Ambassadors," or interns, on college campuses in the states it's currently operating in.

☆ Law firms that make billions fighting injuries and frauds are very hush-hush about what they pay. Here are the starting salaries at 19 firms from Altshuler to Wigdor.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Many plaintiffs' firms pay somewhere in between. Despite more law firms increasingly paying their top earners like professional athletes, many law school grads only make between $50,000 and $80,000 a year. Things do appear to be changing as more plaintiffs firms seek to compete with Big Law firm talent. But firms like Edelson that pay as much as Big Law firms are the exception. For more information on how these law firms pay, see our table below:Do you have more information on how plaintiffs' firms pay their lawyers?

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☆ Climate change is the biggest issue facing our planet. A public-private partnership is helping address it with zero-carbon tech.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Vertiv With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

So, how can data centers provide more computing power while reducing their carbon footprint? "The RISE partnership will help us see the bigger picture of sustainability," he said. "We are creating greenhouses and vertical farming to reuse the heat and analyzing the data from medium-sized data centers." Other areas for improvement in data centers' environmental performance include making hardware and software more energy efficient, said Tor. Vertiv and RISE are also members of the E2P2 Tech Consortium, leading low-carbon fuel cell development to power data centers.

☆ Companies still have way too much office space, and they can't sell it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Collin Madden, founding partner of GEM Real Estate Partners, walks through empty office space in a building they own that is up for sale in the South Lake Union neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, May 14, 2021. According to Elizabeth Ptacek, senior director of market analytics at commercial real estate information and analytics company CoStar, there is currently 232 million square feet of surplus commercial real estate up for sub-leasing. A few things we know about corporate real estate: it's a focus of cost-cutting for companies, but it's also probably the last asset you want to sell now in a soft market. It's a bad situation, but she said that for owners of corporate real estate, if the cost of real estate debt is cheap and the balance sheet is solid, sit on the real estate. Ptacek noted that after 2008, the peak in the distressed asset sales wave didn't occur until 2010/2011.

☆ SEC Charges Trade Coin Club Founder, Promoters in $295 Million Bitcoin Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Mengqi Sun | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against the founder and three U.S. promoters of Trade Coin Club, alleging the crypto-trading membership club operated as a Ponzi scheme that raised 82,000 bitcoins, valued at $295 million in 2018, from investors around the world. PREVIEWThe Trade Coin Club paid withdrawals from the club with investor deposits, the SEC said. The SEC said the individuals violated federal securities laws and face charges including violations of antifraud, securities registration and broker-dealer registration provisions. The website for Trade Coin Club, which marketed itself as a membership group for trading bitcoin, is no longer accessible. The charges come after SEC Chairman Gary Gensler highlighted the agency’s regulatory initiatives in the crypto sector in a speech this week.

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