As competition among AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to novel valuation mechanisms to manufacture a perception of market dominance. Until recently,…
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Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue |
In Brief Posted: 5:53 PM PST · March 2, 2026 The AI coding assistant Cursor has surpassed $2 billion in annualized revenue, a metric calculated…
Geopolitical drama reportedly stalls IPO of SoftBank-backed PayPay |
In Brief Posted: 3:01 PM PST · March 2, 2026 PayPay, Japan’s leading mobile payment app, has reportedly postponed its U.S. IPO due to market…
Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale |
In Brief Posted: 11:19 PM PST · February 26, 2026 Plaid, a company that connects financial applications to users’ bank accounts, enabling payments and data…
Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M |
In Brief Posted: 4:45 PM PST · February 24, 2026 MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500…
InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting |
Even without a background in accounting, anyone who has ever glanced at a 10-K or 10-Q can tell that preparing financial statements is a complex,…
Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model with low-dilution terms |
For the most sought-after founders, the prestige of a top-tier accelerator is increasingly weighed against giving up a significant ownership stake in their company. Ali…
Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot |
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of…
Exclusive: AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
2:48 PM PST · February 11, 2026 Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is talking to VCs about a new round at…
Integrate raises $17M to move defense project management into the 21st century |
John Conafay, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has spent most of his career leading business development at public and private aerospace companies, including…