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
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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…
What founders should think about if looking to raise a Series C
Startup founders face a perplexing and even contradictory capital market in 2025, according to Sapphire Ventures partner Cathy…
Bay Area AI startups are turning to China’s outlawed ‘996’ work model
Silicon Valley’s startup hustle culture is starting to look more and more like an outlawed Chinese working schedule.…
Southeast Asia’s venture investors are excited about AI—but less excited about the region
Asia editor Nick Gordon here, filling in for Allie Garfinkle. The future of AI is in Asia. At least,…