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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures — the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago — to start a separate VC fund, the Wall Street Journal reported. TechCrunch had separately heard that Kutcher was preparing to leave; the WSJ’s report confirms it and adds new detail on his plans with Beller.

The actor and investor’s new firm is being co-founded with Morgan Beller — its name hasn’t been made public yet — who until recently was a general partner at seed-focused VC outfit NFX and previously co-led cryptocurrency project Libra at Meta. Beller also spent nearly three years as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Kutcher’s exit doesn’t appear to be a sign of trouble at Sound Ventures — investors more often leave firms that are underperforming, and that’s not the case here. The firm, which has backed companies like Brex and Gusto, was also an...

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An Explosion Knocked Out Anduril’s Rocket Motor Test Site in Mississippi

BioShocking Attack Uses Fake Games To Hijack AI Browsers And Leak Data

Digital resilience compounds when AI and human expertise scale together

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