Cubby is bringing a tech mindset to the wild world of self-storage—and raised a $63 million Series A
Wild things happen in the self-storage business. In 2023, Matt Engfer was at back-to-back lien auctions in Texas.…
Escape Plan, Dhun Wellness, PropertyPistol, five others pocket early-stage cheques
Meine Electric founders Priyansh Mohan (left) and Stuti Kakkar Travel products firm Escape Plan, wellness centre operator Dhun…
Avaana Capital strengthens top deck with partner-level appointments
Avaana Capital’s Vikas Verma (left) and Shruti Srivastava Mumbai-based early-stage venture capital firm Avaana Capital has strengthened its…
Chubbies cofounder Kyle Hency is back—his new startup Good Day just raised a seed round
Kyle Hency started Chubbies in 2011 with three Stanford friends as a fun, weekend‑and‑beer‑vibe shorts brand. The irreverent…
Investors Put More Than $55 Billion Behind Space Startups Last Year
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the booming space industry, better space weather forecasts,…
Billion-dollar AI startup founders are getting younger — here’s why
Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale, attends an AI summit in Paris in February 2025. Getty Images The…
‘Raise Prices, Raise Prices, Raise Prices’
Marc Andreessen thinks things should cost more. Despite the fact that the US economy is stagnant, with unemployment…
25 is the new 30 when it comes to AI founders as Gen Z leads the way on billion-dollar unicorns
For the past decade, the archetypal founder was creeping up from someone in their 20s to someone a…
Elon Musk xAI raises $20 billion from Nvidia, Cisco, investors
Elon Musk attends the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 19, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters…
VCs predict strong enterprise AI adoption next year — again
It’s been three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT and kicked off a surge in innovation and attention on…
Collapse of eFishery haunts Indonesia’s startup scene
JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Vincent Tjendra and Marcella Moniaga spent most of this year trying, and failing, to raise fresh capital…
CEO of a $134 billion software giant blasts companies with billions in funding but zero revenue: ‘That’s clearly a bubble, right… it’s, like, insane’
In a typically candid assessment of the current artificial intelligence landscape, the outspoken CEO of $134 billion software…