6:42 PM PDT · March 31, 2026 Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving…
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StrictlyVC San Francisco is in less than a month |
7:00 AM PDT · April 1, 2026 All good things come to those who wait. The first StrictlyVC of the year is headed to San…
It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations |
Pete Martin remembers raising a $5 million seed round at a $25 million post-money valuation for his AI-powered cybersecurity company Realm way back in 2024,…
Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon |
1:01 PM PDT · March 31, 2026 Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel…
Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion |
Whoop, the fitness and health tracking wearable company, has closed a $575 million Series G funding round at a $10.1 billion valuation — nearly triple…
The company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger |
The fitness industry is consolidating fast — and the latest deal is one of the biggest yet. Playlist, the parent company behind fitness brands Booker,…
Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles |
To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model. Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous…
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups |
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them. The AI video generation startup has launched…
Delve whistleblower strikes again, with alleged receipts about ‘fake compliance’ |
In Brief Posted: 11:26 AM PDT · March 30, 2026 A day after Delve’s founder and CEO Karun Kaushik published a lengthy post on X…
What we’re looking for in Startup Battlefield 2026 and how to put your best application forward |
Every year I read through thousands of Startup Battlefield applications. And every year, I see the same pattern: The founders who belong on this stage…