IT総合 Cat-sitting startup Meowtel clawed its way to profitability despite trouble raising from dog-focused VCs
Dogs are the most popular pet in the U.S.: 65.1 million households have one, according to the American Pet Products Asso...
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IT総合 IT総合 Deal Dive: Human Native AI is building the marketplace for AI training licensing deals
AI systems and large language models need to be trained on massive amounts of data to be accurate but they shouldn’...
IT総合 In 2024, many Y Combinator startups only want tiny seed rounds — but there’s a catch
When Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub started talking to a startup from the latest Y Combinator accelerator b...
IT総合 Deal Dive: How (Re)vive grew 10x last year by helping retailers recycle and sell returned items
The fashion industry has a huge problem: Despite many returned items being unworn or undamaged, a lot, if not the majori...
IT総合 OneScreen.ai brings startup ads to billboards and NYC’s subway
When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Can blockchain make weather forecasts better? WeatherXM thinks so
Accurate weather forecasts are critical to industries like agriculture, and they’re also important to help prevent...
IT総合 From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year
Last year’s investor dreams of a strong 2024 IPO pipeline have faded, if not fully disappeared, as we approach the...
IT総合 VCs wanted FarmboxRx to become a meal kit, the company bootstrapped instead
Some startups choose to bootstrap from the beginning while others find themselves forced into self funding by a lack of ...
IT総合 Contour Venture Partners, an early investor in Datadog and Movable Ink, lowers the target for its fifth fund
Longtime New York-based seed investor, Contour Venture Partners, is making progress on its latest flagship fund after lo...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Sagetap looks to bring enterprise software sales into the 21st century
When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups...
IT総合 Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines
Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but...
IT総合 From Miles Grimshaw to Eva Ho, 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 VC fund performance is down sharply — but it may have already hit its lowest point
Venture capital has been hit hard by souring macroeconomic conditions over the past few years and it’s not yet cle...
IT総合 Fika Ventures co-founder Eva Ho will step back from the firm after its current fund is deployed
Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-...
IT総合 NBA champion Kyle Kuzma looks to bring his team mentality to Scrum Ventures
Kyle Kuzma is a lot of things. He’s a forward for the Washington Wizards NBA team and a 2020 NBA champion. He̵...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space
While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person c...
IT総合 Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025
Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too ma...
IT総合 From Connie Chan to Ethan Kurzweil 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 Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health
When Joanna Strober was around 47 she stopped sleeping. While losing sleep is a common symptom of perimenopause, she fir...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Givebutter is turning a profit making tech for nonprofits
Givebutter recently raised $50 million for its CRM platform for nonprofits as startups building tech for that industry g...
IT総合 The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban the use of most noncompete agreements on Tuesday. This ruling means compan...
IT総合 Rubrik’s shares climb 20% in its public debut
This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 ...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Not all climate startups are focused on carbon
Windfall Bio sells methane-eating microbes to companies to help them reduce their carbon footprint in the short-term.
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IT総合 Airtree Ventures already returned its first fund thanks to Canva while maintaining the majority of its stake
Airtree Ventures uses the secondary market to slim down its stakes while waiting for its portfolio companies to exit.
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IT総合 Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
The global demand for wood could grow by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by the World Resources Institut...
IT総合 Deal Dive: EarliTec Diagnostics raises $21.5M to help diagnose autism earlier
EarliTec's FDA-authorized device helps clinicians diagnose children showing signs of autism as young as 16 months old.
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IT総合 From YC to IPO: Winter 2024 Demo Day, Rubrik and Ibotta
What a week, everyone. Two full days of Y Combinator demo day activity kept us busy, but the latest accelerator cohort&#...
IT総合 DCVC wanted to raise $500M for its first climate fund, but the market had other plans
DCVC’s target for its first climate-focused fund, DCVC Climate Select, has been all over the place and highlights the ro...
IT総合 Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companies
Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in it...
IT総合 Seso is building software to fix farm workforces and solve agriculture’s HR woes
Migrant workers are a critical labor force for U.S. farms, but getting them here on proper H-2A visas can be complicated...