“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” On the heels of Super Venture & Super Return Berlin, and a LP/GP summit in Montreal organized by Inovia, I wanted to reflect on what felt like a panoramic view of the industry, across 1) managers of VC funds 2) startups raising capital and 3) incumbents in the public markets. What struck me most wasn’t any one deal or datapoint, but the duality of two starkly different realities.

The technology industry today, for startups and venture capital firms alike, is best described as a tale of two cities. READ MORE