With each new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026 cohort was unveiled, filled with defense tech, robotics, AI infrastructure and…
Tag: VCs
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI |
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. He landed famed public investor Cathie…
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups |
Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an effort to expose what he called a…
The fax machine is the bottleneck in US healthcare, and VCs are starting to notice |
A lot of the conversation around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of…
Diverse teams start with diverse VCs |
Startups are often quick to say they value diversity but are slow to implement hiring practices that reflect that. It is the path of least…
SXSW rebounds as a top networking, ideas festival for founders and VCs |
The air felt different at this year’s SXSW, the annual March festival where tech meets pop culture in Austin.I was reminded of the 2019 SXSW…
VCs are betting billions on AI’s next wave, so why is OpenAI killing Sora?
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman wasoffered $26 millionfrom an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure,…
With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic |
With OpenAI on the verge of finalizing a new $100 billion round, and Anthropic just closing its own monster $30 billion raise, one thing is…
Rogue agents and shadow AI: Why VCs are betting big on AI security |
What happens when an AI agent decides the best way to complete a task is to blackmail you? That’s not a hypothetical. According to Barmak…
Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game |
10:53 AM Pst · January 7, 29 min Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year…