In Brief Posted: 2:08 PM PDT · October 1, 2026 In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president,…
Author: Dominic-Madori Davis
Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for |
Two Google alumni have closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups, betting that the era of enterprise AI experimentation is ending and…
a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B |
In Brief Posted: 2:51 PM PDT · September 29, 2026 AI startup EliseAI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a $4…
MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant |
Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one. On Monday, they announced that their AI-powered…
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it |
When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR…
Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together |
When Sara Du was helping companies build MCP servers in 2025, people kept asking her how they could use AI agents from within Slack itself.…
Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs |
It’s been a while since Jackson Wagner left his job as a product lead at Scale AI in July 2022.Now, he’s building in a new…
Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI |
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, leaders…
Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance |
Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series A round. The round was led by Roo Capital…
Noise wants to help everyday people become paid content creators |
Marketing platform Noise aims to connect brands with content creators at a much lower cost than hiring traditional influencers or running standard ad campaigns. That’s…