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,…
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines suffers wave of defections
Those keeping tabs on Silicon Valley’s AI talent wars were gripped this week by news that three members…
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…
Collapse of eFishery haunts Indonesia’s startup scene
JAKARTAÂ (Bloomberg): Vincent Tjendra and Marcella Moniaga spent most of this year trying, and failing, to raise fresh capital…
Eight Roads-backed PlasmaGen Bio snags funding, valuation nears $170 mn
Plasmagen Biosciences CEO Vivek Kamath PlasmaGen Biosciences, a biopharmaceutical company which counts investors such as Eight Roads Ventures…
Startup Stuffers and its pre-teen founders offer lessons in how to make the most of AI
I can probably guess the last piece of corporate swag you received: It was most likely a t-shirt,…
PolyAI Raises $86 Million As Fight To Answer Calls With AI Heats Up
PolyAI cofounder and CEO Nikola Mrksic has raised $86 million at a $750 million to grow the voice…
The market has ‘switched’ and founders have the power now, VCs say
The way venture capitalists think about fundraising can be a black box. But investors must think about their go-to-market strategy…