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Venture Thoughts Distilled

Phil Boyer

Thoughts, insights, and perspectives on startup investing from Phil Boyer, a venture capitalist at Crosslink Capital

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2026 Investment Themes: Entering the Era of Embedded Intelligence

Over the past few years, AI has transitioned from what was once a cutting-edge technology reserved primarily for researchers and engineers into something that even our grandparents now use and discuss around the holiday dinner table. As wit...

5 months ago
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2025 Investment Themes: Human + Machine Superpowers

As we enter 2025, the venture market presents a striking dichotomy: soaring valuations for hot AI companies alongside a highly challenged environment for most other sectors. This has ignited a debate within the VC / startup ecosystem as to...

a year ago
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2024 Investment Outlook

Data → AI Assembly Line, AI-Native Productivity Apps, Leapfrogging the Adoption Curve in Industry AI

Sun setting on 2023 in Santa Cruz, CA

As 2023 came to a close, it felt like the startup / VC community took one collective sigh of r...

2 years ago

2023 Investment Themes

Phew… 2022 was a long year. Inflation is surging, there is a war in Ukraine, capital markets have crashed, and the underlying economy is only beginning to feel the effects of what could be a prolonged downturn. I am not going to provide my...

3 years ago

2022 Investment Themes: Data Assembly Line, Rise of “x”Ops, and Old Economy Transformation

*Logos represent Crosslink portfolio companies

As we turn from 2021 into 2022, there is a general feeling that I think we all share — the 2020s got off to a rough start for our world! So far… a global pandemic, disruptions to our children’...

4 years ago

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