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Kernel: Plumbers of the AI revolution
By Akshat Goenka
🌗🔥 The Humanoids are Coming
By Moonfire Team
Announcing Jonas Vetterle as Moonfire’s New Head of AI & ML
By Mike Arpaia
The Humanoid Robotics Revolution: How Software is Unlocking the Future
By Mattias Ljungman
The Science of Venture Bets
By Mike Arpaia, Jonas Vetterle & Nic Lowden
🌓🔥 Death of the specialist?
By Moonfire Team
The year of churn and the death of the specialist: What’s top of mind for tech startups?
By Moonfire Team
The Lakehouse Era: How Open Storage and Stateless Compute Are Reshaping Data Infrastructure
By Mike Arpaia
🌓🔥 Best, not Biggest
By Moonfire Team
Lightdash’s third act: Building for the future of BI
By Mattias Ljungman
December ‘24: The Christmas List
By Moonfire Team
November '24: Security Winners
By Moonfire Team
Reintroducing Moonfire
By Moonfire Team
October ‘24: Moonrise
By Moonfire Team
The Rise of the Venture Creator
By Mattias Ljungman
Revyze: Making learning fun
By Mattias Ljungman
Fine-tuning is all you need
By Jonas Vetterle
September '24: The Future of Play
By Moonfire Team
Gaming in the time of infinite content
By Mattias Ljungman
Moonshot II: Artificial Chemistry
By Mike Arpaia, Jonas Vetterle & Thomas Bradley
August '24: AI Hype and Hiring
By Moonfire Team
How to differentiate in the AI hype cycle
By Mike Arpaia
July '24: Global from day one
By Moonfire Team
Global Sales: Start from Day One
By Akshat Goenka
Orchestra: A single point of control for lean data teams
By Moonfire Team
Where founders should focus to capitalise on the $2tn security opportunity
By Akshat Goenka
June '24: Pulse Summit Recap
By Moonfire Team
May '24: Redefining Seed
By Moonfire Team
Seed is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
By Mattias Ljungman
Moonshot I: Where the chips fall
By Mike Arpaia, Jonas Vetterle & Thomas Bradley
April '24: Success & Security
By Moonfire Team
How the proliferation of security threats and spending has created a $2 trillion opportunity
By Akshat Goenka
How to build a great customer success function – with Melanie Lawn
By Moonfire Team
Meet LiveFlow: Revolutionising Financial Reporting
By Mattias Ljungman
March '24: Flow State
By Moonfire Team
February '24: Securing the Future
By Moonfire Team
Filigran and the future of open source cybersecurity
By Mike Arpaia, Mattias Ljungman & Akshat Goenka
January '24: Beyond Creation
By Moonfire Team
AI in gaming: Why generative AI won’t transform game asset creation – yet
By Akshat Goenka
December '23: Foreword to 2024
By Moonfire Team
How will 2024 unfold?
By Mattias Ljungman & Akshat Goenka
Akshat Goenka and the Essence of Partnership at Moonfire
By Mattias Ljungman & Mike Arpaia
November '23: The wrong question
By Moonfire Team
How to overcome poor data quality when applying ML to early-stage venture
By Mike Arpaia
October '23: Birth of a Salesman
By Moonfire Team
Redefining B2B sales: AI’s impact on prospecting, selling and admin
By Akshat Goenka
The Humaans story: Building a platform for the new era of HR
By Mattias Ljungman
September ‘23: The next scientific revolution
By Moonfire Team
An introductory reading list on AI for Scientific Discovery
By Mike Arpaia
AI is the new BI
By Akshat Goenka & Mattias Ljungman
What’s top of mind for fintech startup founders?
By Moonfire Team
July '23: Big game hunter
By Moonfire Team
Everything everywhere all at once: Gaming investment at Moonfire
By Mattias Ljungman
With $3tn in value created, European tech is just getting started
By Mattias Ljungman
Pulse Points: A second reading
By Moonfire Team
Key insights from Moonfire Pulse 2023
By Moonfire Team
June '23: Pulse Points
By Moonfire Team
Meet Jonas Vetterle: Using language models to evaluate startups, embracing LLMs, and the next big thing after AI
By Moonfire Team
May '23: Moonfire, Part II
By Moonfire Team
Transformers, LLMs, and the (r)evolution of the Moonfire tech stack
By Mike Arpaia
We’ve raised $115m to back and scale the best early-stage startups in Europe
By Moonfire Team
Meet Akshat Goenka: Big data, valuable failure, and the power of a personal thesis
By Moonfire Team
Meet Harpal Khing: AI, intuition and how to 'power up' next-gen VCs
By Moonfire Team
April '23: The 10x VC
By Moonfire Team
The 10x VC: Moonfire's tech-first vision
By Mattias Ljungman
Changing the game: GOALS scores $20m to reshape the future of football gaming
By Mattias Ljungman
March '23: The 10x doctor
By Moonfire Team
SVB: Black swan or first domino?
By Mattias Ljungman
LLMs in healthcare: The 10x doctor and value-based care at scale
By Akshat Goenka
Venture portfolio construction and the factors impacting optimal strategy
By Moonfire Team
February '23: Portfolio Playground
By Moonfire Team
Thoughts and discussions on venture portfolio construction
By Moonfire Team
Design your own early-stage venture portfolio with our Portfolio Simulator
By Moonfire Team
972 billion portfolios: How to design the optimal venture portfolio
By Moonfire Team
January '23: Chance favours the prepared mind
By Moonfire Team
Chance or deep observation: Our approach to thesis articulation
By Akshat Goenka & Mattias Ljungman
Predicting the Unpredictable: Looking Forward to 2023
By Moonfire Team
Lightdash: BI as code for the modern data team
By Mattias Ljungman
More needles, bigger haystacks: What we mean when we talk about data-driven VC
By Jonas Vetterle
Humaans: welcome to the future of people operations
By Akshat Goenka
All Gravy close $3.2m round
By Akshat Goenka & Moonfire Team
Good Gravy!
By Moonfire Team & Mattias Ljungman
Maths with words: The power of large language models in VC
By Mike Arpaia & Jonas Vetterle
The Art of Exit
By Moonfire Team
HiPeople Close $2.6m Round
By Moonfire Team
Double Scoop: Exciting Updates and Building the machine for data-driven investing
By Moonfire Team
Humaans & Lightdash: An Exciting Double Scoop
By Mattias Ljungman & Moonfire Team
Is Now The Right Time To Be Raising VC Funding?
By Moonfire Team
Software Solutions For The Great Talent Reckoning
By Akshat Goenka
Tokens, Ownership, and Protecting The Creator Economy
By Akshat Goenka
How We Built Novel Staking Infrastructure For a Solana Validator
By Mike Arpaia & Moonfire Team
Bringing Decision Makers Back to the Data Stack
By Mattias Ljungman & Moonfire Team
Crypto, Blockchain, and the Role of VC in Web3 Gaming
By Akshat Goenka & Mattias Ljungman
Enter Networked Fintech
By Mattias Ljungman & Jonas Vetterle
The New Age of Venture Capital
By Mike Arpaia
What To Do About The Downturn
By Mattias Ljungman
The Creator Economy & Funding Announcements
By Mattias Ljungman
Understanding Token Distribution Models in Early-Stage Businesses
By Jonas Vetterle
A New Moonfire Project - Open-Source Tokenomics
By Mattias Ljungman
The Gig Economy + Meet Our Growing Team!
By Mattias Ljungman
Key Learnings from the Past Year
By Mattias Ljungman
Our First Full Year of Operation
By Mattias Ljungman
Five Predictions for the Next Five Years
By Akshat Goenka & Mattias Ljungman
Crypto Gaming: Evolution meets Revolution
By Akshat Goenka
Crypto: The Latest Gaming Frontier
By Mattias Ljungman
The Changing Nature of Productivity Tools
By Mattias Ljungman
The Future of the Decentralised Workplace
By Mattias Ljungman
Early-Stage Hiring for Engineering Teams: Part II
By Mike Arpaia
Early-Stage Hiring for Engineering Teams: Part I
By Mike Arpaia
Effective Engineering Hiring
By Mattias Ljungman
Multiplicative Effects at Play in European VC Over the Past 15 Years
By Mattias Ljungman
Rise of Europe: Compounding Growth of our Tech Scene
By Mattias Ljungman
Why the Smart Money is Headed to Europe
By Mattias Ljungman
Determining Market Size When Evaluating Innovation
By Mattias Ljungman
Moonfire is Hiring a Machine Learning Engineer
By Mike Arpaia
Market Sizing and Timing in the Venture World
By Mattias Ljungman
Moonfire Launch Round Up
By Mattias Ljungman
Today, We Officially Launched Moonfire
By Mattias Ljungman
Why We Raised a $60m European Pre-Seed and Seed Fund
By Mike Arpaia
European Venture is on the Rise Again
By Mattias Ljungman
