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first_img Stanford professor releases venture capital firm rankings: 5% of VCs generate 90% of industry profits, 21 new firms enter the top 100

Stanford Business School Professor Ilya Strebulaev, in collaboration with Blake Jackson, released the 2026 Strebulaev-Jackson Venture Capital Firm Rankings, based on nearly 30 years of data from over 230,000 investments and nearly 13,000 VCs. The research estimates that about 5% of VCs generate approximately 90% of the industry's profits. The top five are Sequoia Capital (10,158 points), Andreessen Horowitz (8,292 points), Accel, DST Global, and Tiger Global. Among them, Parkway Venture Capital (19th place) and Notable (20th place) made it into the top 20, but are not well-known leading brands.The rankings are based on six major factors: discount valuation, dilution adjustment, net profit (after costs), value added (lead investments and board seats), human capital decay (three-and-a-half-year half-life), and credit allocation between institutions and individuals (25% for the investing institution and 75% for the current institution). Of the top 100, 62 are located in California, 19 in New York, and 6 each in Massachusetts and Texas. 21 were established in 2015 or later, and 23 of the best investments are in frontier AI or AI infrastructure companies, with OpenAI listed as the best investment by 4 firms, xAI by 3, and Anthropic and Perplexity by 2 each. The ranking methodology has a correlation of only about 0.27 with the Midas List, with SV Angel investing in about 139 unicorns ranked 31st, and Thrive with only 47 unicorns ranked 8th. This ranking is the result of research by Stanford professors and does not constitute investment advice.

first_img Secret Network increased the supply by approximately 1.079 billion SCRT, diluting the supply by about 75%

According to CryptoSlate, after the approval of proposal 365, the privacy public chain Secret Network based on Cosmos upgraded to v1.26.0 on August 21, minting approximately 1.079 billion SCRT in a one-time issuance to maintain network operations before SCRT Labs stops support on September 1. After the upgrade, the total supply increased to approximately 1.443 billion, with the absolute balance of original holders remaining unchanged, but their total proportion decreasing to about one-quarter, resulting in a dilution of approximately 75%.The distribution of the new issuance includes: 299 million for the foundation and core development program each, 178 million for the ecological fund, 72 million for advisors, research and development, and validators each, 43 million for builders and relayers, and 44 million for remedial purposes. The v1.26 economic model allows approximately 308.4 million SCRT to be circulated on the first day and sets a continuous inflation rate of 5%. The community previously rejected SCRT Labs' proposal 360 regarding the migration to Arbitrum snapshots.SCRT Labs has indicated that regardless of the voting results, it will end development and related support for this Cosmos-based L1 on September 1. The chain itself has no plans to halt, and subsequent development, infrastructure, and validator participation will need to be undertaken by the community. This new issuance aims to provide resources and incentives for continued operations.

first_img ByteDance will merge TRAE and Kouzi into Doubao, and will promote "Doubao Work."

According to reports from Intelligent Emergence, ByteDance has completed the team integration of its office AI products, with the TRAE and Coze teams being fully merged into the Doubao system. Among them, TRAE Work and Coze will integrate their product capabilities in work scenarios with Doubao, while TRAE IDE and CLI will continue to develop as a programming product line under the Doubao brand. After the adjustment, the relevant product and operations teams will report to Zhao Qi, the product head of Doubao.TRAE and Coze were originally part of ByteDance's Product R&D and Engineering Architecture Department, positioned respectively as AI programming products and AI intelligent entity development platforms. Starting this year, productivity agents have become an important strategic direction for Doubao, and the experience accumulated by both parties will be reused in Doubao. Following this adjustment, ByteDance has further clarified the AI core business positioning of Doubao, focusing AI office products on Doubao, and will launch the independent AI office product "Doubao Work" as a unified product and brand for AI office scenarios as early as this week.ByteDance responded that the adjustment aims to better coordinate product and technical resources to provide users with a higher quality AI work experience, and existing user rights will not be affected. Recently, Doubao has intensively updated office functions such as remote computer control, Windows virtual desktop, cloud computer, and side workbench, and has launched over 200 skills and connectors; the independent "Doubao Work" will also be deeply integrated with Feishu, with the former Feishu "Aily Intelligent Partner" having been renamed to "Doubao Work Partner."

first_img HP, ASUS, and Acer reduce production capacity in Southeast Asia, with the focus of notebook production returning to China

According to DIGITIMES, the NB supply chain has reported that brand manufacturers are significantly returning to production in China, with "returning to China for production" becoming a new trend. Brands such as HP, ASUS, and Acer have recently noticeably reduced their originally planned capacity shifts to Southeast Asia, with production focus returning to Chongqing or Kunshan in China, and increasing orders to Chinese ODM or EMS manufacturers and the proportion of private label products. This involves production lines at Quanta, Inventec's Thailand factories, and Compal, Wistron’s Vietnam factories, which may be affected by customer transfers. Lenovo, Dell, and Apple, on the other hand, remain relatively unchanged.The supply chain indicates that after the U.S. equivalent tariffs were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the impact of substitute tariffs is smaller, and the production costs for NB in Southeast Asia are on average $9 higher per unit than in China. The gross profit margin for brand manufacturers per unit of NB is mostly between 3% to 10%. Based on a low-priced model with an average price of about $300, the $9 difference is close to or even exceeds their profit, resulting in unprofitable shipments. Local Chinese governments are also demanding increased production due to reduced tax revenues, or they will reclaim past subsidies, creating a pull for returning production.Relevant ODM personnel stated that they will respect customer decisions, and if they cannot take on a single product, they will shift production locally to servers and other product lines such as networking. Lenovo is more cautious due to its diversified layout, with limited relocation; Dell has not significantly returned due to the high proportion of U.S. government orders; Apple targets the high-end market and promotes automation, with the main reason for relocating MacBook production from Shanghai being the pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, and its plans in Vietnam remain unchanged to date.
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