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Insights
|September 25, 2025
Client Insight: SEC Opens the Door to Mandatory Shareholder Arbitration
The SEC will permit mandatory shareholder arbitration in public company governance starting September 19, 2025, marking a significant shift in federal securities law claims
Insights
|September 10, 2025
Gunderson Dettmer Releases 2025 Mid-Year Venture Capital Report
Gunderson Dettmer’s year-in-review venture capital report analyzes data collected from the thousands of venture financing transactions in which we have represented clients, featuring insights from partners Maggie White, Jose Rivera, and Nick Harley
Insights
|September 8, 2025
The Power of Focus: Founding partner Tom Villeneuve reflects on the last 30 years
A lot of things (maybe most things) about our business and the ECVC field have changed dramatically since we started the firm thirty years ago. It’s quite striking. At that time, the Internet was still in its infancy and biotech was still a toddler. Software was delivered almost exclusively on floppy discs and CDs for on-prem deployment; the closest thing to SaaS was wonky timesharing. Billion-dollar VC funds were unheard of. The precursors of GPUs were brand new and pretty much limited to graphics cards for video games. AI and smartphones weren’t in the picture, except as science projects and fleeting commercial failures.
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Events
|October 14, 2025
Gunderson Dettmer, in partnership with Alpha Edison, announces the debut of live pitch competition, PitchLive.LA, taking place during LA Tech Week
Events
|September 18, 2025
Employment & Labor Partner Max Perlman will moderate the panel, “Drafting Enforceable Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants in a Changing Legal Landscape,” at Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI) upcoming program, Noncompetes and Restrictive Covenants 2025
Events
|August 29, 2025
Gunderson Dettmer corporate and securities partner Maggie White will co-lead a roundtable with Nicole Trudeau, GC at Wave Digital Assets, to discuss “Secondaries, Liquidity & the Pressure Cook”
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Client News
|September 19, 2025
Further Ventures Invests in GRVT $19M Series A
Leading capital markets infrastructure investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, Further Ventures, announces its investment in the $19 million Series A financing of GRVT, with participation from ZKsync, EigenCloud and 500 Global
Client News
|September 18, 2025
Gunderson Client Mayfield Leads Numeral $35M Series B
Gunderson Dettmer represents Mayfield as the lead investor in Numeral’s $35 million Series B financing, alongside Benchmark, Y Combinator, Uncork Capital and Mantis Venture Capital
Client News
|September 18, 2025
Polar Announces $10M Series Seed Led by Accel
Polar, an open-source billing platform for developers and digital creators, announces its $10 million Series Seed financing led by Accel, enabling the company to scale and expand growth, developer relations, and strategic partnerships within the payments ecosystem
Firm News 263 Results
Firm News
|September 18, 2025
Gunderson Dettmer introduces Catalyze, an exclusive platform offering tailored tools, events, and resources to empower startups and investors across every stage of their journey, reinforcing the firm’s 30-year legacy of driving innovation, growth, and impactful outcomes in the venture ecosystem
Firm News
|September 17, 2025
Gunderson Dettmer Sponsors China Venture Capital Finance Organization’s 16th Annual Conference
Gunderson Dettmer’s Beijing office was honored to participate in the 16th Annual China Venture Capital Finance Organization (“CVCFO”) Conference and Welcome Dinner, held on September 11 and 12, 2025 in Shanghai, China.
Firm News
|September 16, 2025
Chief People Officer Jane Rhee Named Finalist in Silicon Valley Business Journal C-Suite Awards
Silicon Valley Business Journal has names Gunderson Dettmer Chief People Officer Jane Rhee as a finalist in its new C-suite awards program, in the chief human resources officer category
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Public Ventures
|September 25, 2025
On September 24, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released an Excel file containing a provisional list of entities that may be required to report under the state’s landmark corporate climate disclosure laws. At its August 21 workshop, CARB had previewed that it would circulate such a list in the coming weeks. Importantly, CARB emphasizes that companies subject to the laws will be responsible for compliance even if not included on this initial list. To help validate the information in the preliminary list of entities, CARB is seeking stakeholder feedback through a short survey, which CARB encourages companies that believe they may be subject to the laws, or may qualify for an exemption, to complete. Completion of the survey is voluntary.
Public Ventures
|September 10, 2025
Moloney’s brief expected to align closely with SEC chief’s deregulatory orientation, with a focus on “alleviating disclosure burdens” and “tailoring smart, practical and effective regulations that will allow companies to thrive”
Public Ventures
|September 4, 2025
Since taking the reins in April 2025, SEC Chair Paul Atkins has often repeated that “it is a new day at the SEC.” The latest iteration (Spring 2025) of the SEC’s rulemaking agenda released today — the first under Atkins’s leadership and one that, in his words, heralds a return to the SEC’s core mission with a “renewed focus on supporting innovation, capital formation, market efficiency and investor protection” — reflects this new reality, marking a significant reset of the agency’s policy priorities and previewing sweeping, broadly deregulatory changes in store.