Term Sheet Next: Erica Wenger on elephants, branding in VC, and her first fund
“The more I thought about it, the more I realized I was against much of the unicorn obsession,”…
Elias Torres’s Agency raises $20 million Series A to chase agentic AI for customer success
It can refer to an agency that handles PR, books travel, or manages talent—and by extension, to agents…
AirOps raises $40 million Series B at $225 million valuation to rethink marketing in the age of AI
For marketers, search engine optimizers, and yes, lowly journalists, the sky is falling down. All conventional wisdom on…
Founders are getting huge paydays before their startups are close to an exit—and that’s fine with many VCs
Good morning, it’s Crypto Editor Jeff Roberts pinch-hitting for Allie. Over the course of my career, I’ve written…
Can a startup be worth a trillion dollars?
Sometime in August, my editor and I became interested in a question that turned out to be less…
Generation Lab raises $11 million, becoming Accel’s first longevity bet
The word “longevity” derives from Latin, and more or less means “long life” or “great age.” Each translation…
Exclusive: Flow Engineering raises $23 million Series A led by Sequoia to power hardware’s new era
17 years later, Singh still can’t talk about the details of that business (at least, not to a…
Exclusive: Assort Health raises $76 million Series B to build on voice AI healthcare platform
Like so many people with busy 9-to-5s, high school teacher Suzanne Grinberg has a scheduling problem: By the…
‘We’ve never had a fundraising deck’: Here’s where venture capital stands now and where it’s going next
If you want a pulse check on where the venture capital industry is at, consider the software supply…