{"id":7236,"date":"2026-06-09T23:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/how-justin-ernest-invested-nearly-500m-into-hot-startups-without-a-traditional-vc-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:17:51","slug":"how-justin-ernest-invested-nearly-500m-into-hot-startups-without-a-traditional-vc-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/how-justin-ernest-invested-nearly-500m-into-hot-startups-without-a-traditional-vc-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/09\/how-justin-ernest-invested-nearly-500m-into-hot-startups-without-a-traditional-vc-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI News &amp; Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX. Source: AI News &amp; Artificial Intelligence<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daazlabs.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}