As highlight in our weekly podcast, some sectors are flying high and, certainly relative to the global financial crisis a dozen years ago, banks and financial services providers are one of them.

The blurring of lines between corporate and independent venture capital is continuing apace as all parties consider how best they can support entrepreneurs while fulfilling their five needs: capital, customers, product development, hiring and an exit.

“If you don’t understand how money and credit work, you can’t understand how economies work—which is the biggest driver of politics and how the whole economic-political system works.”

AmFam has made it's first impact investment in Biobot Analytics, a platform that can trace health indicators that provide insights into drug use and the presence of viruses, environmental contaminants and nutrition.

It has been an active few weeks for all parts of the economy as a result of demand and supply shocks through the coronavirus.

“US oil price below zero for first time in history,” read the headline in the Financial Times and effectively the same over at the Wall Street Journal when I woke up this morning.

There are a few ways to deleverage an economy and boosting inflation to reduce the real burden of the debt is one of the less unpleasant if it is carried out alongside rising wages. This is critical if the demand shock from the coronavirus lockdown leaves that economy effectively unable to service its individual, corporate or sovereign debt piles.

A hundred-dollar bill is lying on the ground. An economist walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the money there?" The economist replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been $100 on the ground, someone would've picked it up."

Wow, what a deal. It is hard to imagine a more legendary combination than Jim Clark and Thomas Jermoluk (TJ) hooking up to start a new company with backing from the world’s largest venture capital firm in NEA and America’s second-largest private conglomerate, Koch, through its corporate venturing unit.

Hats off to Corigin Ventures, real estate developer Corigin’s corporate venturing unit, for being able to open up to external limited partners for the first time.