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Cash Now, Not Later: The New Startup Playbook
Cash management is becoming a much bigger part of strategy than it used to be for growing businesses. For a long time, founders held off raising until their runway was nearing its end. Today, that logic is shifting. Leading startups, especially in…
Using The CARES Framework To Build Ethical Biotech Startups
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota | Director of Bioethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Santa Clara University| MIT Senior Lecturer| EU, NIH Advisor In my experience, launching a biotech startup is one of the most thrilling and consequential ventures a…
Jeff Bezos Is Backing AI Drug Development Startup Profluent
Ali Madani started thinking about how AI could be programmed for biology in 2020, years before the launch of ChatGPT. The machine learning scientist was working at Salesforce, which that year launched a moonshot project, called ProGen, to design…
Security startup Guardio nabs $80M from ION Crossover Partners
The Internet today has a new worry. Alongside vibe coding tools, and the codebases, sites and apps built with them, security issues and blind spots have proliferated, too. Cybersecurity company Guardio is taking aim at a fresh market born amid this…
Legally embattled AI music startup Suno raises at $2.45B valuation on $200M revenue
If you want insight into just how worried VCs (and Silicon Valley, generally) are over legal challenges to AI training on copyrighted material, look no further than AI music site Suno. Suno, which allows anyone to create AI-generated songs through…
This startup is growing mini-livers to keep patients alive
Caralynn Nowinski Collens, Ramille Shah, and Adam Jakus spent years developing an innovative technology to regenerate injured bone. The results, they thought, were. . . okay. The company they founded, Dimension Bio, received clearance from the Food…
Know a startup using AI to change the future of work? We'd like to hear from you.
AI has affected nearly every aspect of the workplace. Business Insider is looking for the most compelling startups transforming how work gets done. Do you know a company that fits the bill? Let us know. Prospective companies must be startups that…
As Women Achieve Greater Parity In Launching High-Growth Startups, One Barrier Remains Hard To Leap: Family Responsibilities
Basima Abdulrahman, founder of KESK in Erbil, Iraq, makes battery-free, solar-powered air conditioners to help families weather summer temperatures that reach 120 degrees. She designed the units to operate during daylight hours, when electricity…
Missing These Strategies Can Derail Even the Fastest-Growing Startup
Sustainable growth requires aligning purpose and value before scaling aggressively. Starting small builds strong foundations, culture and systems that support long-term success. Continuous reinvention and reflection ensure relevance and prevent…
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, is walking away after 12 years to start his own AI startup
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and one of the most influential figures in the field, is leaving the company to start a new AI venture, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. LeCun announced the move on Facebook, sharing that he…
Walmart in talks to acquire Israeli-founded startup to combat scams, counterfeits
Walmart is in talks to acquire R&A Data, a startup founded by two Israeli scientists that monitors online marketplaces for scams, counterfeits and other compliance issues. The acquisition would come as John Furner prepares to take the helm as…
This startup's plant-inspired tech keeps hundreds of millions of plastic particles out of the ocean
Tiny fragments of microplastics—from clothes, car tires, packaging, and other sources—slip through most water filters. But at a water treatment plant on the coast in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where plastic-filled wastewater would…
The pros and cons of supporting overseas startups
One noticeable change in Korea's startup ecosystem this year is the growing presence of Korean venture capital firms and startup support organizations in the United States. Many are now opening offices in Silicon Valley. The Asan Nanum Foundation…
This former Eli Lilly exec just raised a $52 million seed round from family offices to build a new healthcare AI startup.
Michelle Carnahan spent four years as the president of VC-backed healthcare startup Thirty Madison, and before that, had a two-decade-long career at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. Now, she's launching her own startup without a drop of VC funding.
Luma AI, A Growing Startup With Hollywood Ties, Raises $900M To Build 'Supercluster' In Saudi Arabia
Luma AI, a growing California startup with ties to Hollywood, has raised $900 million in Series C funding, which it plans to use to fund a “supercluster” facility in Saudi Arabia. The funding round was led by Humain, which is part of…
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