Month: September 2026

NextStar Venture Partners Managing Director Deborah Magid recently returned from Washington, D.C., where she spoke at the AI-themed DCNY Summit at the Rayburn House Office Building on September 16, 2026. The summit, hosted by the Alliance Indus Foundation, brought together a notably diverse room, and it left her thinking about…

If you have driven Highway 101 between Palo Alto and San Francisco lately, you have seen them. The billboards. One after another, rising over the traffic, each advertising a technology company in language pitched to a very particular audience. My husband is a retired carpenter. He built beautiful things with…