Join Sept. 18 with George Church and this year’s top biotech startups
I asked AI the other day how many biotechs have been co-founded by Harvard’s George Church. About 50…
Exclusive: Squint raises $40 million at $265 million valuation to modernize manufacturing for companies like Pepsi and Michelin
Manufacturing dates back about 2.5 million years, when early hominins fashioned stone tools. Since then, it’s been an…
AI search startup Profound raises $35M as Sequoia backs its bid to be the Salesforce of marketing’s next rra
As AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity reshape how people search—siphoning queries away from Google—startups are racing to…
Exclusive: Decart raises $100 million at a $3.1 billion valuation, chasing the future of real-time creative AI
Dean Leitersdorf and I are on Zoom, watching a Sabrina Carpenter music video. In “Taste,” Carpenter and Jenna…
Reannah Glover Launches The Real Time App for Realtors
If good instincts make a good entrepreneur, consider Reannah Glover blessed. “One thing about me — that’s helped…
OpenAI’s reported $500 billion valuation signals AI euphoria
And this week saw the Sam Altman-led company unveil its long-awaited GPT-5, along with a sweeping U.S. government…
Media and Entertainment Ventures Raise $500 Million in July
This report is a partnership between WrapPRO and PitchBook, the go-to financial data and software platform that provides…
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
Warning, San Francisco: That cute necklace your coworker is wearing might be recording you. A crop of startups…
South startups ride North
THOOTHUKUDI: A buzzing Thoothukudi is gearing up for an industrial leap. With VinFast’s entry, expansion of port-airport, and…
Figma IPO’s surprise winner is a charity with 13 million shares—and a famous backstory that sparked a bitter feud over a donor’s oil fortune
As Figma went public this week to much fanfare—and an almost instantaneous 250% stock pop—quite a few folks…