{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "VentureGrill", "home_page_url": "https://venturegrill.com", "feed_url": "https://venturegrill.com/feed.json", "description": "Independent coverage of venture capital and startups — funding rounds, exits, fund launches, and the people writing the checks.", "language": "en-US", "items": [ { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/global-startup-investment-surges-to-510b-in-h1-2026-fueled-by-ai-boom-and-robust/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/global-startup-investment-surges-to-510b-in-h1-2026-fueled-by-ai-boom-and-robust/", "title": "Global Startup Investment Surges to $510B in H1 2026 Fueled by AI Boom and Robust Exits", "summary": "Q2 2026 saw over $200 billion invested globally in startups, marking the second-largest quarter ever amid accelerating AI funding and a strong exit market.", "content_text": "Q2 2026 saw over $200 billion invested globally in startups, marking the second-largest quarter ever amid accelerating AI funding and a strong exit market.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T10:11:23.061Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Venture Capital" ] }, { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/welcome-to-venturegrill/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/welcome-to-venturegrill/", "title": "Welcome to VentureGrill: venture capital, well done", "summary": "A new independent publication covering venture capital and startups — the rounds, the exits, the funds, and the people writing the checks. Here is what we are building and why.", "content_text": "A new independent publication covering venture capital and startups — the rounds, the exits, the funds, and the people writing the checks. Here is what we are building and why.", "date_published": "2026-07-07T07:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Analysis" ] }, { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/how-a-term-sheet-actually-works/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/how-a-term-sheet-actually-works/", "title": "How a term sheet actually works, clause by clause", "summary": "Valuation is the number everyone quotes, but the terms are where deals are won and lost. A practical tour of liquidation preferences, pro rata rights, anti-dilution, and the clauses founders actually negotiate.", "content_text": "Valuation is the number everyone quotes, but the terms are where deals are won and lost. A practical tour of liquidation preferences, pro rata rights, anti-dilution, and the clauses founders actually negotiate.", "date_published": "2026-07-06T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Venture Capital" ] }, { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/pre-seed-to-series-c-what-each-round-means/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/pre-seed-to-series-c-what-each-round-means/", "title": "From pre-seed to Series C: what each round actually means", "summary": "Round names are marketing, but the milestones behind them are not. What investors actually expect at each stage, from a deck and a demo to a repeatable go-to-market machine.", "content_text": "Round names are marketing, but the milestones behind them are not. What investors actually expect at each stage, from a deck and a demo to a repeatable go-to-market machine.", "date_published": "2026-07-05T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Funding Rounds" ] }, { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/how-vcs-make-money-2-and-20/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/how-vcs-make-money-2-and-20/", "title": "How VCs actually make money: the mechanics of 2-and-20", "summary": "Management fees, carried interest, hurdle-free economics, and the power law that makes one company pay for the whole fund. The business model of venture capital, explained.", "content_text": "Management fees, carried interest, hurdle-free economics, and the power law that makes one company pay for the whole fund. The business model of venture capital, explained.", "date_published": "2026-07-04T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Venture Capital" ] }, { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/startup-exits-ipo-acquisition-secondary/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/startup-exits-ipo-acquisition-secondary/", "title": "IPO, acquisition, or secondary: how startup exits actually pay out", "summary": "Paper valuations become real money in only a few ways. How each exit path works, who gets paid in what order, and why the waterfall matters more than the headline price.", "content_text": "Paper valuations become real money in only a few ways. How each exit path works, who gets paid in what order, and why the waterfall matters more than the headline price.", "date_published": "2026-07-03T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Exits & IPOs" ] }, { "id": "https://venturegrill.com/reading-a-cap-table-dilution-options/", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/reading-a-cap-table-dilution-options/", "title": "Reading a cap table without crying: dilution, options, and the math that decides who owns what", "summary": "The cap table is the single source of truth for ownership — and the place where dilution quietly compounds. How to read one, and the three numbers that matter at every round.", "content_text": "The cap table is the single source of truth for ownership — and the place where dilution quietly compounds. How to read one, and the three numbers that matter at every round.", "date_published": "2026-07-02T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "VentureGrill Staff", "url": "https://venturegrill.com/author/staff/" } ], "tags": [ "Startups" ] } ] }