How a Gen Zer built a $3.7 billion defense tech startup backed by Sequoia
Hi, it’s Preston Fore, in for Allie. Earlier this month, defense tech firm Mach Industries raised $600 million…
Arcee AI trained four models for $20 million. Now, it’s worth $1 billion.
Arcee AI, the startup he founded in 2023, was focusing on post-training—the process by which an existing model…
Candid Health raises $120 million to take on America’s $280 billion medical billing mess
Candid Health cofounder Doug Proctor spun his laptop around to show me a herd of wild horses grazing…
In 2026 so far, U.S. VCs have deployed a $412.7 billion. Almost none of it is trickling down.
Venture capital is bigger than it’s ever been—but that doesn’t mean the industry is better than it’s ever…
Kevin Ryan’s AlleyCorp raises new $335 million fund, all in on early-stage bets
Consider psychedelics: Ryan—often called “the Godfather of NYC Tech”—was once skeptical that psychedelics could be viable treatments for…
The $1.2 billion startup that wants to become Amazon Prime for savings
In 2022, Hussein Fazal flew 200 of his employees to Las Vegas to cash a $200 check at…
The VCs betting founders need a village, not a blank check
“We come from this multigenerational family of Indian Army and Air Force,” said Raj. “Everyone served, on one…
Exclusive: District raises $14.7 million to help sellers build community-driven marketplaces
Eddie Koai, Patrick Mandia, and I are watching Crazy Lamp Lady on someone’s computer. It’s a town hall…
How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup
Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava were chasing restaurants when they found an HVAC company. The two engineers had…
The Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built
Mary Minno first met Esther Wojcicki when she was 15. Walking into Wojcicki’s journalism class at Palo Alto…
The startup looking to solve health care’s fax machine problem
I sincerely don’t remember the last time I saw a fax machine. But that’s, perhaps, because I don’t…
The one-person unicorn: Myth, miracle, or the future of startups?
Does the one person unicorn exist? Or is it the startup version of a ‘cryptid,’ a mythical creature…