Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’** (TechCrunch Venture) - [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/reach-capital-raises-265m-fund-v-to-back-ai-founders-building-to-expand-human-potential/) - **Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds** (TechCrunch Venture) - [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/fresh-off-its-wiz-payout-index-ventures-raises-2b-across-three-funds/) - **Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no…
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