While many startups founded prior to the emergence of ChatGPT are struggling to position themselves for the AI era, Vercel, a 10-year-old dev tool and…
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Startup funding shatters all records in Q1 |
In Brief Posted: 1:25 PM PDT · April 1, 2026 Global investing in startups hit $297 billion in Q1 2026, breaking all records, according to…
From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day |
Investors have flocked to Y Combinator’s Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has…
Why SoftBank’s new $40B loan points to a 2026 OpenAI IPO |
SoftBank has taken on a new $40 billion loan to help it cover its $30 billion commitment to invest in OpenAI as part of the…
Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing |
The number of med-spas, weight-loss clinics, and concierge practices where patients pay a membership fee for direct, often same-day access to physicians, has exploded in…
Insight Partners scrubs investment post about Delve amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations |
Update: The Insight Partners article about their investment in Delve, which had been removed at the time of publication, has since been restored. However, the…
Doss raises $55M for AI inventory management that plugs into ERP |
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often described as a company’s “central brain” because the software connects different departments — including finance, HR, and inventory…
Despite bitter rivalry, Kalshi, Polymarket CEOs back $35M predictions markets VC fund |
In Brief Posted: 3:57 PM PDT · March 23, 2026 Few rivalries in the startup ecosystem are as intense (and occasionally bitter) as the race…
Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by US credit unions |
In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even…