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Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing |
On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and MangoAI, which works on improving ad performance.…
Ukraine's startups keep building |
When edtech company Preply became a unicorn earlier this year, employees in its Kyiv office celebrated with cake — because that’s what you do, even…
Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive |
The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary…
The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni |
Move over, PayPal mafia:There’sa new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, isarguably thebiggest AI player in town. The company isreportedly nowin…
Google Cloud’s VP for startups on reading your ‘check engine light’ before it’s too late
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real…
Exclusive: Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’ |
It’s a challenge every startup faces: They’ve made a prototype and proven the thing works, but now have to sell the product and produce enough…
What the Epstein files reveal about EV startups and Silicon Valley |
After the Justice Department released a trove of new documents tied to infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, journalists digging through them have found extensive connections…
I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups
I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the…
Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors |
Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It had courted Ford as a potential investor, but…