In Brief Posted: 3:55 PM PDT · April 16, 2026 More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI-assisted coding remains by far…
Author: Marina Temkin
Hightouch reaches $100M ARR fueled by marketing tools powered by AI |
Historically, marketers relied on designers and other creative professionals to develop images and videos for personalized online ad campaigns. In late 2024, seven-year-old startup Hightouch…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch signals IPO readiness as AI agents fuel revenue surge |
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…
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…