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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.
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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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Read the pitch decks that 9 healthcare AI startups used to raise millions in 2025
Top VCs are betting on healthcare AI for tasks like remote monitoring and medical coding. Check out the pitch decks startups use to raise millions.
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This top young VC reunited with his former colleague to deploy an unusually bold strategy for investing in AI startups
Brian Zhan and Max Gazor, formerly of CRV, will employ an unusually bold high-risk/high-reward strategy, making massive bets out of their debut fund.
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The 18 most promising startups in healthcare in 2025, according to investors
We asked top investors at firms like A16z and Kleiner Perkins to name the healthcare startups they've been watching this year. Here are their picks.
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VC Max Altman says tech got too focused on mission: 'We really lost our way for a little bit'
Max Altman's career advice: Focus on picking the fastest-growing company.
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This former Eli Lilly exec just raised a $52 million seed round from family offices to build a new healthcare AI startup
Thirty Madison's former president is launching her own healthcare AI startup without a drop of VC funding.
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Two 19-year-old MIT dropouts joined Y Combinator and raised $2.7 million to arm police with AI. Read the pitch deck.
Two MIT dropouts have secured $2.7 million for police tech startup Code Four, which generates reports from bodycam footage.
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A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.
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Venn is building a smart operating system for apartments. Here's the pitch deck that helped it raise $52 million.
Venn, which is building a smart operating system for apartments owners, announced $52 million in funding. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck.
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At a major AI conference, one startup got voted most likely to flop
300 founders and investors in the audience at Cerebral Valley were asked which startup valued at more than a billion dollars they would bet against.
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This startup is creating a tool to break Nvidia's chip lock-in. Read the pitch deck Spectral Compute used to raise $6 million.
Spectral Compute is aiming to lower the barriers for companies migrating programs to other types of chips by making existing CUDA codebases portable.
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Teens love this social music app. So does Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.
Airbuds is a social network that lets you see what your friends are listening to. Its core userbase? Teens.
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Real estate tech startup Digs raised $19 million to build AI that makes home construction easier. Read its pitch deck.
AI startup Digs has raised $19 million to help builders manage pre-construction and warranties for homes.
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Google is in talks to pour more money into Anthropic, which could push the AI startup's value to $350 billion
Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic. The two companies announced a massive cloud computing deal in October.
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PhDs are the new MBAs for founders in the AI era, as college dropouts remain an outlier
AI startup founders, distinct from past unicorn leaders, are younger and more technical, with VC giants like A16z and Sequoia taking notice.
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This Israeli cybersecurity startup is less than a year old. Here's how it got a $33 million preemptive term sheet from Craft Ventures.
AI is fueling a surge in cyberattacks. Startups, especially in Israel, are rushing to use their own AI to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.
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Two Gen Z founders who raised $1.25 million for their AI startup share their pro tips for landing funding
"What Florence was in the Renaissance, SF is in the age of AI," said Attention Engineering's Juluian Windeck, who recommends that founders move there.
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