Join Sept. 18 with George Church and this year’s top biotech startups
I asked AI the other day how many biotechs have been co-founded by Harvard’s George Church. About 50…
Exclusive: Squint raises $40 million at $265 million valuation to modernize manufacturing for companies like Pepsi and Michelin
Manufacturing dates back about 2.5 million years, when early hominins fashioned stone tools. Since then, it’s been an…
AI search startup Profound raises $35M as Sequoia backs its bid to be the Salesforce of marketing’s next rra
As AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity reshape how people search—siphoning queries away from Google—startups are racing to…
Jump Raises $20 Million for AI-Powered Financial Advice Tools
Jump, which provides artificial intelligence tools to financial advisors, raised $20 million in new funding. “This investment underscores…
Exclusive: Decart raises $100 million at a $3.1 billion valuation, chasing the future of real-time creative AI
Dean Leitersdorf and I are on Zoom, watching a Sabrina Carpenter music video. In “Taste,” Carpenter and Jenna…
Media and Entertainment Ventures Raise $500 Million in July
This report is a partnership between WrapPRO and PitchBook, the go-to financial data and software platform that provides…
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
Warning, San Francisco: That cute necklace your coworker is wearing might be recording you. A crop of startups…
After Figma’s red hot IPO, investors say these companies may be next to IPO
Figma’s sensational IPO last week resurrected longstanding debates about IPO pricing and first day pops—an unsurprising reaction to…
What founders should think about if looking to raise a Series C
Startup founders face a perplexing and even contradictory capital market in 2025, according to Sapphire Ventures partner Cathy…
Thoothukudi’s homegrown startups power a southern surge
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Bay Area AI startups are turning to China’s outlawed ‘996’ work model
Silicon Valley’s startup hustle culture is starting to look more and more like an outlawed Chinese working schedule.…
Southeast Asia’s venture investors are excited about AI—but less excited about the region
Asia editor Nick Gordon here, filling in for Allie Garfinkle. The future of AI is in Asia. At least,…