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Limy built a platform that helps brands optimize for the era of AI agents. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $10 million.
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How a dating app got a spot on 'Shark Tank' — and scored a $200K investment from Alexis Ohanian and Kendra Scott
Left Field cofounders Kate Sieler and Samantha Martin made it to Shark Tank's stage. Here's how they left with $200,000.
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FLORA raised $42 million for its creative platform that pulls together top AI tools. Read its pitch deck.
FLORA streamlines creative workflows by integrating AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini for teams at brands such as Lionsgate and Levi's.
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Meta's former chief scientist Yann LeCun says he hated being a manager: 'I'm much more visionary'
LeCun said he prefers focusing on innovation over leadership duties.
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I quit my job at Nvidia to cofound a startup. The money wasn't life-changing, and I wanted our son to see a freer path.
Derek Fulton left Nvidia to launch Carolina Cloud, a North Carolina cloud startup offering affordable compute services.
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A prominent marketing exec is becoming a partner at a VC firm. Here's her advice for startups that want to 'break through the noise.'
Lindsay Kaplan, a former marketing exec and founder of Chief, is joining consumer VC fund Bullish as a venture partner.
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OpenAI executive sees a Rubik's Cube of future revenue sources
CFO Sarah Friar outlines OpenAI's evolving strategy, highlighting expanded partnerships, subscription tiers, and outcome-based royalties.
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Shopify's CEO says companies that hire founders often make a big mistake: Don't 'put them in like founder day care'
Tobi Lütke said that companies often fail to recognize the potential of employees with entrepreneurship experience.
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An OpenAI researcher turned venture capitalist says investors are 3 to 5 years behind the latest AI studies
Jenny Xiao, who founded Leonis Capital in 2021, said AI needs more investors who understand frontier AI technology.
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A startup therapist says most founder blowups can be solved in three ways
A startup therapist says most cofounder blowups can be solved in three ways.
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Ben Horowitz says that investing teams shouldn't be 'too much bigger than basketball teams'
The Andreessen Horowitz cofounder explained how the venture capital firm maintains a lean operation despite being a large firm.
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Marc Andreessen says being controversial gives his VC firm an 'incredible competitive advantage'
Marc Andreessen said that his VC firm benefits "the more outspoken we are." Startup founders are drawn to their candid messaging, he said.
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After 7 years at McKinsey, I left to build an AI healthtech startup. I had to unlearn the pursuit of perfection.
Julius Bruch spent seven years at McKinsey before founding an AI dementia startup. He shares what made the leap hard — and why consulting helped.
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Read the pitch deck a Y Combinator-backed startup used to raise $3.6 million to bring AI agents to the doctor's office
Tivara raised a $3.6 million seed round, backed by Mischief VC, Day One Ventures, and Y Combinator. The startup builds AI agents for healthcare.
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A gap year program is lining up six-figure startup salaries for teens
Common Gap links high school graduates to paid jobs at startups as an alternative to attending college.
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This startup is helping companies train AI with an old but buzzy technique. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $7.5 million.
AgileRL has created a platform for engineers to train AI using reinforcement learning, a decades-old technique that's having a comeback.
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Y Combinator veterans raise $15 million to build an AI money manager that thinks like a wealthy family office
Two Y Combinator veterans behind a nine-figure exit have now raised $15 million, led by YC CEO Garry Tan, to build an AI-powered money manager.
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Larry Page is officially moving business out of California ahead of a proposed billionaire's tax
The Google cofounder has severed ties between California and several of his business entities, including his family office.
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2025 was the year of VC FOMO. A 'reckoning' might be coming in 2026.
It was a frenzied year in venture capital when founders with the kernel of an idea able to command huge valuations. But some VCs think the good times won't last.
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DreamWorks CEO turned VC Jeff Katzenberg says that AI is not going to be a 'zero-sum game'
Bubble or no bubble, AI won't have just one winner, says Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Rippling's product chief says this is why he deliberately understaffs every project
He said that working late and on weekends when a problem arises, and running a team to its capacity, is what separates good and great teams.
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Nvidia's Groq deal rattled Silicon Valley. Here are 5 other AI startups split apart in Big Tech's new deals.
Traditional acquisitions have become rarer. Nvidia's deal for Groq sounded familiar to many in the tech industry.
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Scribe raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion valuation to fix how companies adopt AI. Read its pitch deck.
Workflow software startup Scribe has raised $75 million and achieved unicorn status, as it aims to reimagine AI integration for businesses.
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How Y Combinator founders are pitching the AI boom
Y Combinator pitch decks raised millions in funding in 2025, as AI reshapes industries and expectations for young founders rise fast.
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The SpaceX Mafia is here
SpaceX mafia startups are raising billions in venture capital, with ex-employees launching companies across aerospace, AI, and health.
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Read the pitch decks of 14 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions
Social networking and dating startups used these pitch decks to raise venture capital funding rounds.
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2 former Hinge execs are building an app to make it easier to plan hangouts with your friends
Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan left their C-suite posts at Hinge to build a new app for making plans with friends called Rodeo.
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Healthcare VCs predict more AI transparency investment, private equity M&A, and a quiet year for IPOs in 2026
It's been a hot year for healthcare venture investment. Backers said they expect investments in AI cost savings in 2026, plus more M&A — but not IPOs.
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Erebor Bank, Palmer Luckey's crypto-oriented finance startup, just got one step closer to launching
The FDIC approved the bank's application on Dec 16. It still requires final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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Welcome to the hectocorn era: 7 tech startups valued at $100 billion or more
The billion-dollar unicorn isn't all that special anymore. Welcome to the age of the hectocorn, when startups are valued in the hundreds of billions.
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Anonymous messaging app NGL has been acquired by Mode Mobile
NGL, an anonymous messaging app that once soared to the top of the Apple app charts, has been acquired by Mode Mobile.
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Check out the exclusive pitch deck Valerie Health used to raise $30 million from Redpoint Ventures to automate healthcare faxes
The startup aims to fully automate front-office healthcare tasks for independent provider groups with AI.
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Tech companies want flying taxis on the battlefield
Archer, Beta, and Joby are developing autonomous, gas-electric hybrid air taxis in hopes of clinching defense contracts.
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The FBI is investigating a startup founder accused of using VC money to pay for her house and a Caribbean wedding
Shiloh Luckey faces SEC charges for using VC funds to pay for her home, Super Bowl tickets, trips to Aspen, and a wedding. The FBI is also investigating.
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A startup betting that AI can find your 'soulmate' has raised $4 million. Read its pitch deck.
Keeper, founded in 2022, raised $4 million in pre-seed funding. Here's the startup's current pitch deck.
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Included Health is launching an AI personal health assistant that'll face off with Big Tech from Verily to OpenAI
The startup's new tech could compete with Big Tech's health AI projects from heavyweights like Alphabet and OpenAI.
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This startup is using AI agents to automate HR tasks like onboarding. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $24 million.
Shapes, formerly DreamTeam, has created AI agents to perform routine HR tasks and proactively flag things like flight risks.
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Sequoia partners share how they decide which startups get a yes
Strong opinions on startups are far more important than agreement at Sequoia's investment decision meetings.
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How do you get cheap military drones fast? 3D-print them on the battlefield.
The US is light years behind China in drone production. Firestorm Labs aims to solve that problem with small, mobile factories.
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How a 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout hired some of Meta's brightest minds to join her AI math startup
24-year-old Axiom Math founder Carina Hong wooed top Meta researchers in a competitive AI talent market.
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Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says the Big Tech giant won't be investing in his new startup
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun is leaving Meta to launch his own AI startup. He said Meta would be a partner, but not an investor.
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This startup is helping brands show up in chatbots and AI search. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $4 million.
Azoma simulates how brands appear in chatbot replies and AI overviews, then creates content optimized for discovery by AI.
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A father of four raised $4.5 million to help fuel the US manufacturing 'renaissance' with AI. Read his pitch deck.
Y Combinator graduate Kenneth Cassel has raised $4.5 million to boost US manufacturing with an AI-driven factory.
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2025 sparked a legal tech funding frenzy. Here were some of the notable deals.
Legal tech gained $3.2 billion in VC funding fueling startups in contract review, due diligence, and predictive analytics for law firms.
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Marc Benioff, Jack Altman, and Sapphire Ventures invested $9 million in this sales tech startup. Check out its pitch deck.
Jeeva raised $9 million to expand its agentic sales platform from Marc Benioff, Jack Altman, and Sapphire Ventures.
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This MIT Ph.D. is betting the future of transportation is on water, not in the air
Sampriti Bhattacharyya is building hydrofoil boats aim to revolutionize maritime transportation with hybrid-electric vessels.
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This startup uses an AI copilot to help you make deeper professional connections. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $4M.
Goodword doesn't want to be the next LinkedIn. But it does want to disrupt how people maintain professional relationships.
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The hottest Stanford computer science class isn't banning AI tools — it's embracing them
One of the hottest Stanford CS courses this semester embraces rather than bans AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude.
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Tesla loses some AI staff to a new robotics startup
Sunday Robotics came out of stealth mode last week and revealed a team stocked with Tesla alumni.
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