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…

Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions |

In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even more…

Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing |

AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans. But Michael Fanous, a UC Berkeley computer science…

Sales automation startup Rox AI hits $1.2B valuation, sources say |

3:25 PM PDT · March 12, 2026 Rox, a startup developing autonomous AI agents to boost sales productivity, has raised a new funding round valuing…