50 Startup & VC Newsletters To Subscribe
Today we have dozens of channels with hundreds of articles, blog posts, and tutorials, but at the end of the day, we generally choose up to 5 newsletters to open. We at LETA Capital have curated the ultimate list of newsletters that any founder or venture capitalist can find helpful and immediately subscribe to in 2022. But don’t be in a rush! Read the complete list to choose the right newsletters which will help you stay updated. All of them are great and provide information in a digestible way, so the choice is yours.
1. CB Insights
CB Insights — An amazing combination of the industry value and the sense of humour: with each email you get the latest VC updates, reports or analytics, as well as a portion of jokes, memes or just funny gifs. Kudos to Anand Sanwal, he knows the secret sauce of making this newsletter so incredible. And check out the website, the archive is huuuuge, so we believe you can find something really worthy for you there.
2. Benedict’s Newsletter
Benedict’s Newsletter — What matters in tech? What’s going on, what might it mean, and what will happen next? Benedict Evans has spent 20 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. He writes essays about things he is trying to understand, and a weekly newsletter with 175,000 subscribers.
3. Inside Newsletters
Inside Newsletters — Here you can find 22 exceptional newsletters for techies, one is better than the other, believe us. Inside XR, Inside Venture Capital and Inside AI are our favourite ones, but you, of course, should pick those, which sound more applicable for your domain.
4. Sunday CET
Sunday CET — A weekly selection of what is noteworthy in the European investment space, curated by entrepreneur and investor Dragos Novac. The newsletter was launched to track the booming startup ecosystem, highlighting money, new and old actors, and emerging business practices. For example, the latest emails were dedicated to the questions of why was Zenly closed down, whether is GDPR working, and do VCs need product strategy.
5. Seedtable
Seedtable — Newsletter on European tech and how it affects society by Gonzalo Sanchez delivered on Fridays. Based out of Barcelona, Seedtable brings an authentic analysis of European technology.
6. PSFK Newsletter
PSFK Newsletter—Delivered every Thursday, the PSFK Newsletter highlights consumer experience innovation across categories. For instance, one of the newsletters presented the future-focused links to the next generation of brand-building on the blockchain, winning strategies for key Gen Z audiences, and new approaches to engaging anywhere with everywhere consumers.
7. Dealroom
Dealroom — This weekly newsletter by a European provider of data and intelligence on startups and tech ecosystems is packed with news & insights about startups, venture capital and innovation. It’s based out of Amsterdam and has been operating since 2013.
8. Overlooked
Overlooked — Another weekly newsletter but this time about venture capital and underrated consumer trends by investor Alexandre Dewez. Alexandre is based in Paris, and investing in European startups in seed, series A & B at Eurazeo.
9. First Round Review
First Round Review — The newsletter from the First Round Capital. Each article the team shares provides usable tactics to change careers and companies for the better. Along with the Review’s latest and greatest, they comb Twitter, podcast airwaves and tech’s top publications to curate our favourite articles, interviews, and threads with advice — anything the editors think is worthy of entrepreneurs’ eyes and ears.
10. LETA Capital Newsletter
LETA Capital Newsletter — We couldn’t keep ourselves out of mentioning our monthly newsletter. This is a newsletter of what was happening in and around Leta Capital and Eastern European entrepreneurs and venture capitalists worldwide. We pick up the most interesting and important in VC and tech to keep you updated. You can sign up here.
11. Sequoia Newsletter
Sequoia — One of the first and leading VCs in the world which specialises in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. This is a monthly newsletter with stories from US and European startup founders.
12. Sifted Newsletters
Sifted Newsletters — 5 type of different newsletters for every kind of founder where Sifted journalists cover what’s happening and why it matters. Amy O’Brien reveals what’s hot in European fintech each week. Insights, tips and tricks from Europe’s leading startup operators are prepared by Miriam Partington and Anisah Osman Britton. Freya Pratty rounds up the sustainability stories. Sifted editors Amy Lewin and Eleanor Warnock’s weekly take on European VC. Sign up for bonus news, wisdom and gossip you won’t find anywhere else — not even on the Sifted site.
13. HBR Newsletters
HBR Newsletters — Harvard Business Review has a range of different newsletters to keep you connected to the best ideas in management. Their Daily Alert can be overwhelming, but it’s worth signing up to their weekly subscriber-only newsletter (The Insider), as well as their Management Tip of the Day.
14. EU-Startups Newsletter
EU-Startups Newsletter — The EU-Startups Newsletter is delivered to your inbox every week. Alongside the most exciting and interesting startup news, it also gives you access to insights into the wider startup and European innovation space, great event discounts and keeps you up to date with unique opportunities.
15. The Information Newsletters
The Information Newsletters — Follow the reporters and editors who break and shape the news through The Information Newsletters. Our favourite is The Information AM so you cab start your morning with the important global tech news of the day, covered by The Information team across five time zones.
16. Business Insider
Business Insider — This media outlet has so many newsletters, that you can read them all day long if you subscribe to all of them. We suggest you to pick Business Insider (daily) and Insider Creators (weekly), these are packed with original analysis, news, and trends — delivered right to your inbox.
17. Gumroad
Gumroad — Speaking of creator economy, Gumroad is all about empowering entrepreneurs and freelancers in this area. Their email list sits alongside their podcast, their webinars and their blog posts and is best used as a source of stories and inspiration as opposed to practical advice. It’s pretty good at what it does, though.
18. Femstreet
Femstreet — If you want to learn from incredible female founders, startup operators, and investors, stay on top of tech news, and maybe get your next job, you should sign up for Femstreet. Femstreet sends out a weekly digest of timely, must-read posts by female investors and operators. Join thousands of other business professionals who get Femstreet’s weekly newsletter in their inbox, every Sunday. It’s written by Sarah Nöckel, an investor at Northzone.
19. The Newsette
The Newsette — News from beauty to business and beyond — plus an inspiring interview — delivered with a cheeky twist to your inbox daily, for free. Daniella Pierson, Founder & CEO, says that her dream is for every person — no matter the circumstances, background, qualifications or heritage — to feel inspired to thrive every single day.
20. Tech Digest by Flipboard
Tech Digest by Flipboard — a Newsletter containing the most important technology news of the day, chosen by Flipboard editors. Topics Covered: Business, Entrepreneurship, Science, Tech.
21. Daily Dropout
Daily Dropout — A weekly newsletter featuring the hottest startups across the world. Their team sources startups from universities around the US — like MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UIUC and more — to catch the next big companies before they go big!
22. First 1000
First 1000 — A newsletter where we dive deep about how founders got their first 1000 customers. With their back against the wall and very little amount of funding, it is always interesting to learn how they managed to get their companies off the ground to become tech behemoths. Smart folks from Google, Accel, Bloomberg, Business Insider and many more all keep an eye out every Saturday for a new Startup Deep Dive.
23. CloserIQ
CloserIQ — The CloserIQ mailing list sends its startup newsletter to 40,000 startup leaders, specialising in providing hiring and management advice. They aim to empower companies to build diverse teams and create high performing organisations, with articles on subjects like hiring devops engineers, equity options, reducing team burnout and preparing for HR post-COVID.
24. Hiring: Venture Capital & Private Equity
Hiring: Venture Capital & Private Equity — a Newsletter by Sutton Capital, an educational community of VCs & Private Equity investors helping to share career opportunities and job advice to support the ecosystem.
25. Tech Pod
Tech Pod — A newsletter where you’ll learn more about the non-technical roles and get the newest job/internship postings in the business side of tech. It empowers young professionals to break into the business side of tech. Their mission is to challenge stigmas about what it takes to succeed and break into the tech industry. They empower young professionals to find meaningful careers outside of traditional career paths such as finance and consulting.
26. Hiring: Venture Capital & Private Equity
GoingVC — A weekly newsletter built around the idea of making venture capital education, investing, networks, and talent more accessible to those with the desire to succeed. Topics include Business, Diversity, Education, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Fundraising / VC, Future of work, Investing, News, Startups, Tech.
27. Mattermark
Mattermark — Mattermark’s weekly newsletter covers tech investing, venture capital and startups, making it a must-read for both founders and investors. Curated by the team at Mattermark, it brings together some of the best VC-related articles over the previous week so you don’t have to waste time trawling through dozens of different websites.
28. Lolita’s Newsletter
Lolita’s Newsletter — A bi-weekly newsletter of curated actionable resources for underestimated founders, funders, and friends. It’s made by and with the underestimated community at heart. Written by Lolita Taub, she covers Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing, Tech, Startups, Fundraising / VC, Future of work, Productivity.
29. Climate Tech VC
Climate Tech VC — The leading newsletter on climate and innovation written by Sophie Purdom. They bring you perspective on the evolving world of climate tech by interviewing top investors & operators and covering recent venture deals, news, and jobs.
30. The Weekly Climate
The Weekly Climate — Landing in your inbox every Monday, this is a newsletter for those who want to stay up to date on the global climate crisis — news and trends within climate science, technology, startups, policy, major carbon emitters, climate justice and so on.
31. Hey World
Hey World — Regular newsletter from the Danish developer, Basecamp Co-founder, author, le Mans & WEC racing driver and investor David Heinemeier Hansson on tech, managing teams, remote work and many more.
32. The Daily Pitch
The Daily Pitch — The Daily Pitch is dedicated to providing regular, up-to-date information on venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. It can come in useful if you’re fundraising and need some advice, but it’s also a great way to see what’s going on in the wider startup ecosystem.
33. Failtory
Failory — A weekly newsletter written by Nicolas Cerdeira. Nick sends latest interviews with failed and successful startup founders, as well as articles and 3 curated resources for founders. On his website you can also find funny stuff like Google Cemetery or Amazon Cemetery for example.
34. Groove
Groove — This is one of the more successful startup newsletters for founders with 250,000 subscribers. It provides advice on a little bit of everything, from digital marketing to customer service and more, setting out to share everything the Groove team has learned (and is still learning) about growing a business.
35. IndieHackers
IndieHackers — A newsletter dedicated specifically to founders, providing actionable insights and market updates to help them to start and grow their business. You can learn from the founders behind hundreds of profitable online businesses and you can also take part in conversations on the main IndieHackers site to connect with other people who are building their own companies.
36. Sidebar
Sidebar — This startup newsletter is all about providing five links to design-based articles every single weekday. If you’re into UX and UI, this is one you won’t want to miss, a curated list of what’s hot and what’s not that cuts right to the chase.
37. ProductHunt
ProductHunt — This newsletter brings together a daily digest of the best articles from all across Product Hunt. Sample articles include An Alternative to Facebook Groups, The Leaky Pipeline in Coding, The Best from YC’s Demo Day and From Gimmick to Hero. This is a daily newsletter.
38. Product Psychology
Product Psychology — The Product Psychology newsletter is dedicated to sharing the latest best practices in consumer psychology, design and behavioural science. An email subscription unlocks access to all Product Psychology lessons, as well as a weekly email including Nir Eyal’s latest articles and a curated list of the best resources he founds each week.
39. Product Habits
Product Habits — The last but not the least about startup products — this newsletter is designed to give founders the practical content to help them to create better products faster and cheaper. It’s one of those email lists that does exactly what it says on the tin. The topics include My Billion Dollar Mistake, How the Skimm Grew to 7 Million Subscribers in 7 Years and How Square Became a $30 Billion Company by Reimagining Payments.
40. Salesforce Sales Blog
Salesforce Sales Blog — Salesforce’s 360 sales blog offers a weekly startup newsletter that reflects the company’s mission to make sales easier and more efficient for companies of all shapes and sizes. It has a lot more personality than most email lists and runs an agony aunt style column called Dear Wiz where readers and subscribers can get answers to their most pressing sales questions.
41. LinkedIn Sales Blog
LinkedIn Sales Blog — Available as a daily or a weekly digest, the email list for the LinkedIn Sales Blog shares updates from the world’s leading business social networking site by dropping them directly into your inbox. Common topics include B2B sales, modern selling and sales strategy, as well as new guides, infographics, videos, tips and tricks and product release information.
42. Y Combinator
Y Combinator — If you haven’t heard of Y Combinator, you probably are in the VC and startup ecosystem for less than two days. Launched in 2005, it provides seed funding and has helped to launch companies like Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, Twitch and Reddit, with the combined valuation of the top YCombinator companies exceeding $300 billion. Their startup newsletter helps founders and entrepreneurs to stay on top of what’s hot and what’s not in the eyes of one of the most successful accelerators in history.
43. Foundr
Foundr — Over 300,000 entrepreneurs from around the globe learn the latest tips, tricks and insights to build the business reading this newsletter. Recent article topics range from elevator pitches to rapport building, Facebook and Google Ads, workflow management and more.
44. Startup Curated
Startup Curated — Startup Curated is a community-focussed weekly newsletter that’s dedicated to sharing information from and for founders. Every single piece of content is curated by founding editor Edward Nevraumont, meaning that you only get the stuff that he thinks is worth sharing. There’s no fluff here!
45. SaaS Weekly
SaaS Weekly — Hiten Shah knows all about startup founder’s needs because he’s a three-time founder himself, the brains behind Crazy Egg, Kissmetrics and Quick Sprout. All three are SaaS companies, and SaaS Weekly is dedicated to helping other SaaS founders to follow in his footsteps.
46. Farnam Street
Farnam Street — This newsletter by Rosie Leizrowice is dedicated to sharing wisdom on soft skills and mental tools. It’ll help you to become a smarter, more well-rounded person while providing a bunch of tips and tricks you can use to make better use of your time.
47. The Download
The Download (by MIT Tech Review) — It is just one of many newsletters that the MIT Technology Review has to offer, but it’s by far the best if you want to stay up to date with what’s new in technology.
48. Trends.co
Trends.co — This is more of a community site that also provides a newsletter. They aim to save members time and money by sending them emerging business trends before they go mainstream. Their slogan is “Access thousands of vetted business ideas you can launch in a weekend and a community who can help you make it happen.” Check out if it’s true!
49. HackerNewsLetter
HackerNewsLetter — This curated email list is dedicated specifically to sharing the best of the best from Hacker News, featuring articles about startups, technology, programming and more, it is prepared by Kale Davis. With over ten years of continuous updates under its belt, it’s a tried and tested way of staying on top of the startup scene.
50. Exponential View
Exponential View — This Sunday newsletter by Azeem Azari explores the near future of technology & society bringing clarity to complex technologies and economic scenarios. Azeem brings his long-time experience as a technology founder, investor, regulator, and analyst to the weekly assessment of what’s going on.
That’s it!
These are our favourite newsletters in 2022. What other newsletters should we subscribe to? Tell us what you are reading and we will definitely prepare the second list of the most useful newsletters for VCs and startup founders.
Do you run an innovative tech startup? We are investing in early-stage revenue-generating software startups across the world and would love to hear from you! You can reach us at info@leta.vc.
