A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters |

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle: a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t…

Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India |

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million…

Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems |

The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping…

Why hiring the weirdos works |

When you’re building at breakneck speed, hiring a trusted team is crucial for an early-stage startup. In this episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits…

Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem |

The space ambitions of nation states and billionaires alike demand better sources of power, and a new startup founded by two Stanford PhDs may have…

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…

Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down |

In Brief Posted: 8:27 AM PDT · March 25, 2026 One of the blockbuster hits of the AI age is, without a doubt, legal tech…

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones  |

Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry…

Exclusive: Harbinger’s next product will be hybrid emergency vehicles |

Trucking startup Harbinger is still a relatively new company, but the flexibility of its electric vehicle platform has helped it capture another customer in a…

After pivoting, Y Combinator grad Glimpse raises $35M led by a16z |

Dispute-tracking fintech Glimpse announced Wednesday that it raised a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and Y Combinator. Founders…