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The startup that tried to fix food waste-and got hit by a disinformation campaign
A few years ago, if you walked down the produce aisle in any major supermarket in the U.S., you might have seen a sticker on avocados or lemons that said “Apeel.” The label wasn't from a grower, but from a company designed to fight…
Iconiq-Backed IT Startup NinjaOne Hits $12.3 Billion Valuation
NinjaOne, an IT management platform, has more than doubled its valuation to $12.3 billion in a new financing deal, bucking the trend of investors shying away from software-as-a-service companies over AI fears. The startup is set to announce Tuesday…
How VC Firms Use AI To Evaluate Startups: What Founders Need To Know
Sumit Singh, Exited Operator and VC, Operating & Investment Partner @ Brass Ring Ventures. Venture capital has always been about separating signal from noise. The difference now is that AI is part of the first filter. Many early-stage…
This 19-year-old sold his $30 million AI calorie-tracking startup. Now he's tackling doomscrolling.
While most college kids spent December cramming for finals, 19-year-old Zach Yadegari was selling his multimillion-dollar nutrition app. MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI, an AI-powered calorie-tracking app that Yadegari cofounded while he was in high…
Space Startup Led by Trump's Former NASA Boss Inks SPAC Deal
Quantum Space, a startup led by President Donald Trump's former NASA chief, will go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal that will value the firm at about $1.2 billion. Former NASA administrator Jim…
How To Build A Growth Marketing Team On A Startup Budget
Every early-stage founder I work with asks the same question inside the first thirty minutes of our first call: “Who do I hire first?” Most founders pull up a Notion doc or a slide-deck org chart. Vice president of Growth at the top…
7 Costly Financial Mistakes That Can Quietly Derail a Growing Startup
When you're building a SaaS company, your brain is firing on all cylinders. You're obsessed with product-market fit, customer acquisition costs and the next feature release. The “back office” work — the finance and tax details…
Mira Murati Unveils Her Startup's A.I. Model in First Interview Since OpenAI
Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, left the A.I. giant in late 2024 to found her own startup, Thinking Machines Lab, and raised a staggering $2 billion in less than a year. In her first media interview since founding the startup, Murati…
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old Anant Ambani, son of one the richest men in Asia. On the other was Donald Trump Jr. For months, the…
Indian targeted by Trump poured money into Don Jr.-backed startup
Originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power, this article is republished with permission. In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood…
The startup that's dressing up crypto for Wall Street raised $175 million in a round led by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital
Paul Frambot has a message for the “suits” at traditional financial institutions. “I think TradFi is going to have to wear shorts,” said the 25-year-old, who was coincidentally wearing a pair of his own. That's an…
Sam Altman's eye-scanning startup reportedly cuts jobs as OpenAI moves toward IPO
As OpenAI prepares for a potential stock market debut, another company linked to CEO Sam Altman is reportedly heading in the opposite direction. According to a report, Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World identity verification project…
Rental screening startup 100 acquires fraud detection firm Cobblestone Labs
Rental screening startup 100 today announced that it has acquired Cobblestone Labs Inc., a fraud detection and income verification platform built by former engineers from corporate card company Ramp Business Corp., in a deal that folds an…
AI coding startup Cursor, courted by SpaceX, picks London as European hub
LONDON, June 9: AI coding startup Cursor, which SpaceX has an option to buy for $60 billion, will open its European headquarters in London and hire some 200 staff, an executive told Reuters, as demand in the region grows for tools that automate…
This AI agent startup ditched Anthropic for DeepSeek - and says it's saving millions
The biggest blocker to sustainable AI deployment has emerged as inference cost. GitHub recently abandoned its flat-rate Copilot subscription in favor of usage-based billing, after agentic coding sessions drove costs beyond what a fixed monthly fee…
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