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Allie Garfinkle

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Americans hate data centers. Tech needs them

Though the midterms have been dubbed “the AI election” and a resounding repudiation of tech, it’s hard to tell what all this practically means.

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Reed Jobs’s Yosemite raises $350 million second fund to make cancer non-lethal

Yosemite has closed its cancer-focused second fund at $350 million, a serious jump from January’s first close at $200 million, investor Reed Jobs...

04.11.2026 8

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China and Russia have hypersonic missiles. This $13 billion startup wants the U.S. to catch up

In 2022, Bryon Hargis, Andrew Kreitz, and Sean Pitt—all previously SpaceX executives—cofounded Castelion to help close America’s hypersonics...

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The $13 billion startup racing to close America’s hypersonic gap

Castelion is racing to give the U.S. the affordable hypersonic missile it doesn’t yet have.

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“The attackers are winning”: Cyber 60 founders say AI is giving hackers the upper hand

This week marked the release of the Cyber 60, Fortune’s annual list of cybersecurity’s most innovative startups. And the message is clear: The...

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Anthropic’s S-1 embodies all the contradictions of the AI boom, and the questions about what happens next

The anxiously awaited go-public filing from the $965 billion company is filled with contradictions that, perhaps, wholly encapsulate the AI era.

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AI is giving cybercrime a makeover, and this startup just raised $15 million to fight back

Overwatch’s CEO says AI is merging fraud, hacking and money laundering into one threat.

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‘I love taking VC dollars and turning it into jobs’: inside SendCutSend’s $2.1 billion bet on American metal

Jim Belosic avoided VCs for years while 60% of the Fortune 500 became customers.

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The biggest gaming deals of 2026 are really AI deals

New PitchBook data shows that investors are funding gaming’s picks and shovels, not its hits.

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Jensen Huang on agents gone rogue and AI doomers

Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn and Beatrice Nolan sat down with Jensen Huang in London this week, where Huang sounded off on headline-grabbing cybersecurity...

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Startup Abby Care raises $82 million to turn family members into paid caregivers

Transformation Capital and CVS Health Ventures join the novel bet on filling the caretaking gap.

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Steel ships, railroads, and data centers: A VC takes the Industrial Revolution analogy seriously

Notable Capital’s Hans Tung argues that in every tech revolution, the geopolitical winner wasn’t the best inventor.

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U.S. private equity deal value was down 14.1% in Q3, PitchBook says

U.S. private equity—with more than $3 trillion in assets under management—has been locked in a cycle of geopolitical uncertainty and possible rate...

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Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors

A $30 million seed round will help the startup’s founders build out their army of investing agents.

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Why Oura delayed its IPO

Oura, the smart ring maker, cited “uncertainty” as its reason for delaying its much-anticipated public offering.

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Why Sam Altman takes his hardest questions to Nikesh Arora

The Palo Alto Networks CEO doesn’t do sugarcoating. And it’s made him a go-to advisor.

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Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora is building a defense against the dark side of AI

Cybersecurity’s AI reckoning has arrived, and Arora has become a go-to advisor to CEOs.

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Your 401(k) is funding the AI boom. Here’s what that means for your retirement

The passive-investing revolution was supposed to spread risk. Instead, it has tied millions of workers’ nest eggs ever more tightly to the fortunes...

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Climate tech VC fundraising is down almost 40%, but AI is driving deals

AI has changed the climate conversation, and though there are fewer climate-focused VCs, deals are getting done.

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OpenAI punted. Anthropic stalled. The hottest imminent IPO fits on your finger

Oura has grown from $1.6 million to $60.8 million in net income—and I’ve been one of its 5.7 million subscribers for years.

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‘Be transparent only if asked’: Inside OpenAI’s rogue AI transcripts

When AI agents go rogue, they leave notes that make for extremely interesting reading.

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Arcee AI trained four models for $20 million. Now, it’s worth $1 billion.

Arcee AI isn’t chasing OpenAI, it’s chasing China.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI’s IPO window has been pushed to 2027—but markets aren’t the culprit

Altman called right now an ‘ill-advised moment to go public.’

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The AI apocalypse warning that finally went mainstream

What's new isn't the message—it's that people are finally scared enough to believe it.

14.09.2026 30

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NVP’s Vaughn Crowe on how manufacturing and industrials hit their venture moment

Why manufacturing is finally having its venture moment, according to Vaugh Crowe, cofounder of VC firm NVP Capital.

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The Boston Dynamics spinout building robots you’ll actually want to hug

Dynamic Creatures, the startup former Boston Dynamics executive Marc Theermann just cofounded with noted AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is out of...

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John Ternus takes the helm at Apple, as AI pressure hits

After 15 years as CEO, Tim Cook this week stepped aside, replaced with longtime executive John Ternus.

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To get into Anthropic right now, you need at least $25 million. For OpenAI, it’s closer to $1 million.

In the secondaries market, there’s far more demand for shares of Anthropic than OpenAI.

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David Tisch has always been a collector. His firm’s biggest prize is a $1 billion return on Cursor

How BoxGroup and David Tisch hit it big with a once-unlikely bet.

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How David Tisch’s BoxGroup turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules

David Tisch started off thinking he’d do just one startup deal. Years later, his firm BoxGroup is at the center of VC’s biggest acquisition ever.

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OpenAI’s new revenue chief has a simple mission: make the money match the hype

Rajic, 53, has earned a reputation as one of the most disciplined, successful enterprise sales leaders in tech.

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Private equity’s $860 billion zombie company problem

The zero-interest-rate era left private equity with thousands of companies it can't exit, can't sell, and can't quite kill.

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Portfolio review takes on a new urgency for VCs as AI makes 2024’s great deals look like 2026’s clear mistakes

In venture capital, the half-life of a thesis has never been shorter.

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AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal

The SEC accuses a Long Island firm of running a $74 million boiler room that sold retirees marked-up shares in Anduril, Anthropic, Perplexity, and...

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Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning

Wispr has raised $280 million in its Menlo Ventures-led Series B, as it looks beyond dictation.

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87.5% of venture dollars went to AI. The rest fought over scraps

PitchBook's Q2 valuations data shows a market split in two.

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In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion

The $545 million Series G nearly doubles Whatnot's valuation—a rare consumer-marketplace breakout at a moment when nearly every venture dollar is...

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Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups

Bridgit Mendler—a Harvard and MIT grad who cofounded Northwood in 2022—draws attention for her childhood as a Disney Channel star. But she’s...

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To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining

Mariana Minerals is now valued at $1.5 billion.

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Sports teams have gone from trophies to trillion-dollar investment targets

Since 2014, overall total returns for the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB have outperformed the S&P 500.

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FIFA’s plan to raise billions from investors is sparking a backlash—one insider says Europe is angry because it could change soccer’s balance of power

Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner and former Liberty Media boss Greg Maffei are involved in the controversial bid to buy a stake in a subsidiary of the...

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Greg Brockman on the week two OpenAI AI models went rogue

The OpenAI cofounder's read on a security scare, business models amid an approaching IPO, and the case for staying calm.

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Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

Backed by Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Khosla Ventures, this startup is betting that healthcare's real AI opportunity isn't diagnosis—it's process.

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Kevin Ryan’s AlleyCorp raises new $335 million fund, all in on early-stage bets

Ryan talks about his new $335 million fund, the AI "time warp" reshaping venture capital, and why it can help to change your mind.

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Why is a satellite like a race car? Apex and Toyota’s racing division have an answer

Toyota Racing Development is building structural parts for Apex's satellites—an unlikely collaboration that could offer insights for reviving U.S....

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In 2026 so far, U.S. VCs have deployed a record-shattering $412.7 billion. Almost none of it is trickling down.

In the first half of 2026, U.S. VCs deployed $412.7 billion, a record that surpasses the full year of 2025 by 30%, according to PitchBook’s new...

10.07.2026 60

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The 38-point framework two VCs use to spot the next unicorn founder

18 unicorns in, this VC couple says the secret is finding 'monsters,' not resumes.

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Defense tech could be entering its awkward teenage years. Is the boom a bubble?

VCs are flooding into defense tech, but they could be unprepared for the sector’s brutal economics and lengthy timelines.

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The defense tech boom has become a bubble—or it will be soon

Defense tech was once considered, at best, a fringe area for traditional VCs. Now, there could be a bubble.

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The VCs betting founders need a village, not a blank check

Raj and Sunny Singh Sandhu closed Vicus Ventures’s debut fund at $55 million, turning down ‘way more’ capital to stay focused.

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