IT総合 The Chainsmokers want to bring a different kind of value add to B2B companies
The potential value a celebrity investor can bring to a consumer company, beyond just writing a check, is obvious: marke...
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IT総合 IT総合 Former Caribou founder launches Further, a fintech that’s focused on helping people buy homes
Buying a home has always been complicated. You have to figure out how much money to put down and how that down payment w...
IT総合 Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language
In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Serbia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kicks...
IT総合 Actor and director Olivia Wilde launches a VC firm
Actor and director Olivia Wilde, famous for in “Tron: Legacy” and “Don’t Worry Darling,” q...
IT総合 NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised we haven’t seen a resurgence in startup IPOs yet
While many venture investors, and likely their LPs, were hoping IPOs were going to come back in 2024, that has...
IT総合 Lumen Orbit closed one of the biggest rounds from Y Combinator’s last cohort
Lumen Orbit has closed an oversubscribed, eight-figure seed round of more than $10 million, making it one of, if not the...
IT総合 Bessemer, Index, and a16z alum launch VC firm Chemistry
New VC firm Chemistry raised $350 million for its debut fund, Forbes reported on Wednesday. The firm was launched by Mar...
IT総合 Promise Bio exits stealth backed by Pfizer and AstraZeneca
The first thing Promise Bio CEO Ronel Veksler wants you to know about the biotech company he co-founded, is that it̵...
IT総合 Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano says the benefits of being a private company are growing
Ro co-founder and CEO Zachariah Reitano said while he’d “never say never” about potentially taking the...
IT総合 Paccurate helps companies ship in smaller boxes, saving them money while helping the earth
Paccurate co-founder and CEO James Malley likes to joke that once you get into supply chain tech, the category doesnR...
IT総合 Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions
Small business creation has been on the rise in the U.S. since the pandemic. There are a lot of tech tools designed to h...
IT総合 Acrew Capital hits five years, raises $700m
Acrew Capital has raised $700 million in fresh funds. The San Francisco-based venture capital firm announced in a blog p...
IT総合 Eclipse opens an NYC office with plans to bolster its presence on the East Coast
After nearly a decade, industrials-focused VC Eclipse expanded out of Silicon Valley. The firm opened its second office ...
IT総合 How Paladin’s drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene
When Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina in September, the city’s police department reached out to...
IT総合 Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are ne...
IT総合 Here’s the full list of 39 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally.
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IT総合 Venture studio Diagram expands into climate tech with oversubscribed fund
Eight-year-old Diagram is expanding its startup incubator model into climate. The Montreal-based venture studio, which l...
IT総合 Levy Health wants to help women identify fertility issues sooner
Caroline Mitterdorfer’s fertility journey began with an early-stage cancer diagnosis at age 27. Mitterdorfer told ...
IT総合 VC firm NFX laid off 4 employees and plans to hire more investors
Venture capital firm NFX laid off four employees in September as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources...
IT総合 Initialized Capital restructures, and lets multiple partners go
Initialized Capital is restructuring its team to “meet the moment” in the venture market, according to a blo...
IT総合 Former head of YC’s Continuity Fund Ali Rowghani launches new seed firm
Ali Rowghani, a former Y Combinator managing director and former Twitter executive, is launching a venture firm called M...
IT総合 Permanent wants to permanently change where commercial buyers get their food
Permanent is building a marketplace that connects commercial buyers with farms that use regenerative growing practices.
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IT総合 Airship wants to build better sales tools for HVAC contractors
The HVAC industry is going through a transformation. The old guard of tradespeople are on the cusp of retiring while pri...
IT総合 Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC
While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most ...
IT総合 13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to
Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply the technology to problems like estate pl...
IT総合 Y Combinator’s next Demo Day will include in-person seats for top VCs, Garry Tan says
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan wants to bring the famed accelerator’s Demo Day presentations back as in-person events ...
IT総合 Venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs
From Keith Rabois to Ethan Kurzweil, a lot of VCs have switched firms or spun out of storied VC institutions to launch t...
IT総合 David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents
James McGinniss has been obsessed with decarbonization and the energy grid since he was a high schooler over a decade ag...
IT総合 Ibotta’s CEO explains why startups shouldn’t try to time the IPO market
The IPO market has not roared back in 2024 as many investors hoped it would — not yet, at least. Elevated interest rates...
IT総合 Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst’s indie band, Good Kid, is almost as successful as his AI company
Nick Frosst, the co-founder of $5.5 billion Canadian AI startup Cohere, has been a musician his whole life. He told Tech...