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 ...
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IT総合 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...
IT総合 Y Combinator expanding to four cohorts a year in 2025
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator will expand the number of cohorts it runs each year from two to four sta...
IT総合 Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per stream
Tune.FM is a decentralized music streaming service where users pay for each song they stream using Tune.FM's crypto toke...
IT総合 Neurode wants to treat and track ADHD symptoms through a wearable headband
Sydney-based Neurode has come up with a novel way to offer some relief to people with ADHD: a wearable headband that can...
IT総合 Here’s the full list of 35 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 Startups are getting fined, or sometimes banned, by individual states
The problem, experts say, is that each state has its own complex fees, tax, and business registration requirements.
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IT総合 DubClub wants amateur sports betters to win more
The American sports betting market produced $10.9 billion in revenue in 2023 for casinos, sportsbooks and iGaming, accor...
IT総合 Investors are already valuing OpenAI at over $100B on the secondaries market
OpenAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at an eye-popping $100 billion-plus valuation, sources told the Wall ...
IT総合 NEA quietly reenters the secondaries market
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is getting back into the secondaries game. The Silicon Valley-based VC raised more...
IT総合 How Techstars, Meta helped profitable LatAm startup Mercately raise a $2.6M seed
In Latin American countries like Brazil and Chile, messaging platform WhatsApp has become one of the most popular apps t...
IT総合 Palico is now the first FINRA-approved company to facilitate online LP-led secondaries deals
Limited partners selling their investment stakes in venture capital funds to other LPs on the secondary market is nothin...
IT総合 VCs are so eager for AI startups, they’re buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices
VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the hotte...
IT総合 Harmonyze wants to build AI agents to help franchisors make sense of unstructured data
For some businesses, there is a clear path to growth that doesn’t involve acquiring other companies or expanding organic...
IT総合 Openmart wants to make it easier for enterprises to sell to local businesses
In 2020, Kathryn Wu launched a side hustle while she was working as a product engineer at Pinterest. Wu started a milk t...
IT総合 Rippling’s Parker Conrad says founders should ‘go all the way to the ground’ to run their companies
This is just one area of leadership where Parker Conrad takes a contrarian approach. He also said he doesn't believe in ...
IT総合 From Lauri Moore to Vic Singh, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs
When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to ...
IT総合 Parker Conrad says founders have been building software wrong for the last 20 years
What is the right way to build a software business? Many startup advisers say that B2B software should solve one pain po...
IT総合 Move over SEO, Profound is helping brands with AI search optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) has been top of mind for brands for more than a decade to ensure their websites and pro...