Allie Garfinkle

We're thrilled to announce @GradientVC's Fund 5: $220M, oversubscribed, and fully independent. As @agarfinks wrote in @FortuneMagazine's Term Sheet this morning — we founded Gradient when nobody took AI seriously. Turns out that was the point. 📰 fortune.com/2026/03/17/goo…

Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 (@agarfinks / Fortune) fortune.com/2026/03/11/exc… #a260311p16" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260311/p16#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts in @FortuneMagazine that today’s 5-year-olds won’t ever need to get jobs (!) fortune.com/2026/03/04/why…

Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A (@agarfinks / Fortune) fortune.com/2026/02/27/exc… #a260227p20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260227/p20#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (@agarfinks / Fortune) fortune.com/2026/02/25/exc… #a260225p20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260225/p20#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Breaking news out of @FortuneMagazine: @amazon takes the No. 1 spot on the Fortune 500, ending Walmart’s 13-year run. Only 4 companies have ever held the top spot in our ranking’s 72 years. fortune.com/article/amazon…

"It is a seemingly irrational, but incredibly long-term focused, pursuit of excellence." @Redpoint Partner @itsmeeraclark joined @agarfinks and Fortune's #TermSheet vodcast to offer advice for aspiring venture capitalists looking to break into the increasingly competitive industry. 🎥 Watch the full conversation here: bit.ly/4ayZmCU

"Be authentic to yourself." @Redpoint Partner @itsmeeraclark joined @agarfinks and Fortune's #TermSheet vodcast to offer advice for aspiring venture capitalists looking to break into the increasingly competitive industry. 🎥 Watch the full conversation here: bit.ly/4ayZmCU

Sir Demis Hassabis, the recently minted Nobel laureate and CEO of Google DeepMind, believes we're at the edge of a “new golden era.” But reaching this utopia will require a decade-long sprint that Hassabis describes as a necessary disruption for the $3.9 trillion tech giant. bit.ly/4kt4sFg

One of the most important things we can use AI for is to improve human health. I recently spoke with @agarfinks from @FortuneMagazine on the incredible progress we're making @IsomorphicLabs pushing the frontier of AI-powered drug discovery to make the process 10x faster & better!

@demishassabis @FortuneMagazine Thank you so much for taking the time @demishassabis!

Link to the @FortuneMagazine cover article here, thanks @agarfinks for the great interview - it was a lot of fun to do! fortune.com/article/demis-…

Had a great time on @FortuneMagazine's Term Sheet pod with @agarfinks talking about why I co-founded @Chemistry with @Mark_Goldberg_ and @ethankurz, what’s broken (and fixable) in venture, and why I’m optimistic heading into 2026. AI in healthcare, early stage shifts, and what actually makes a team work Full video 👇👇👇

For the first time since Hamid took the helm, Kleiner opened its doors to a journalist, giving Fortune a rare opportunity to sit in on partner investment meetings and interview the founders and limited partners who work with the firm. trib.al/ffCM2Lt

Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up fortune.com/2026/01/31/ins…

There are many epic stories of startups that came back from the brink. But you rarely get to read the inside scoop on this when it happens at a venture firm. Fortune has a great piece that takes you inside the reboot at KP:

“People don’t expect VCs to talk about faith, and how it drives their values, how they show up in the world, and the way they treat people.” That’s from my interview with @agarfinks in @FortuneMagazine, about working with @mamoonha, who led our Series C at @Thrive Global with @kleinerperkins. “You know how a lot of VCs and tech leaders think that, because we live in frenetic times, they need to match the frenetic pace of the times? It’s actually the opposite—the more frenetic the times, the more exponential the change, the more important it is to actually find that centered place in ourselves. And that is Mamoon.” Click here for the full piece: bit.ly/4a8MH9J

As the AI boom inflates funding rounds and valuations to nosebleed levels, @kleinerperkins Partner @Mamoon Hamid has the chance to show whether the firm he’s rebuilding can be truly competitive and define Silicon Valley’s next big chapter. bit.ly/46eZohT

Really special to share @footworkvc's investment in Snout, led by founder @emiidee. First pet market investment since @thefarmersdog. More in @FortuneMagazine Term Sheet by @agarfinks.

At @IsomorphicLabs, Nobel Prize-winner @demishassabis is building AI models designed to speed up drug discovery and bring medicines to market faster. bit.ly/45r2FKK

Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (@agarfinks / Fortune) fortune.com/2026/01/22/exc… #a260123p19" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260123/p19#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact