1:40 PM PDT · March 24, 2026 With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions…
Author: Julie Bort
Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way |
Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that solve the AI inference bottleneck…
An exclusive tour of Amazon's Trainium lab, the chip that's won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple |
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip…
Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate |
Y Combinator’s famed CEO Garry Tan told a SXSW audience that he’s got “cyber psychosis” and is barely sleeping because he’s so excited to be…
Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B |
In Brief Posted: 10:47 AM PDT · March 16, 2026 Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP…
Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought |
Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, a company that builds software to automate customer service interactions, the companies announced on Wednesday. The deal is expected to close…
Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B |
In Brief Posted: 11:52 AM PDT · March 11, 2026 Vibe-coding sensation Replit has hit another funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it raised…
Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup |
11:21 AM PDT · March 10, 2026 Kevin Mandia, who founded the cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion…