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Lily Mae Lazarus

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David Senra, your favorite billionaire’s favorite podcaster, has turned down every acquisition offer. Here’s why

The Founders host says investors inevitably want influence. His answer has been to build a multimillion-dollar media business entirely on his own...

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How David Senra built the podcast the world’s most powerful CEOs can’t stop listening to

Founders counts Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell as fans—and its ‘unmanageable’ creator turned down $50 million so he could build a media empire his way.

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Eli Lilly just placed a $40 million bet on the next injectable boom

The GLP-1 maker’s latest AI investment targets drug discovery and the future of consumer medicine.

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Why BlackRock, Nvidia, and Temasek are betting billions on quantum computing

Geopolitical competition and meaningful exits are convincing Wall Street the technology may finally be nearing its moment.

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Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, Sail Research is betting the coming explosion of AI agents will force enterprises to rethink the economics of...

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Exclusive: Vinod Khosla wanted ‘every available dollar’ of Runlayer’s funding round. It just raised $30 million to govern the agent workforce

The startup already counts Instacart, Gusto, Opendoor, and a Fortune 500 bank among its customers.

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Exclusive: A founder who went from pressure washing to Wharton just raised $40 million to put AI to work for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC crews

Sequoia and a16z are betting Probook will be the AI operating system powering home services.

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Exclusive: Upscale AI wants to be the next Cisco—and it just raised another $190 million

The AI networking startup has now raised $500 million in under 18 months as investors bet the next infrastructure giant will emerge from the race to...

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Exclusive: The AI company powering public safety operations for the 2026 World Cup just raised $250 million

Peregrine was built by former Stanford gymnasts and a Palantir veteran, and has nearly tripled its valuation in just 15 months.

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Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his $1.25 trillion empire

SpaceX is bigger and more complex than ever. Here's the inner circle Elon Musk relies on to run it.

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Exclusive: A 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11 million to put a hormone lab on your wrist

As Oura and WHOOP expand into women's health, startup Clair Health has raised $11 million to build a wearable designed from the ground up to...

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SpaceX’ surging stock paid for the $60 billion Cursor acquisition in just a few hours of trading—and it reveals Elon Musk’s new power

SpaceX's stock appreciated by the entire $60 billon price of Cursor in just a matter of hours on its first day of trading, showing the power of Elon...

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Exclusive: Voice AI startup Bland raises $50 million after being rejected by 180 investors

Isaiah Granet turned a Y Combinator rejection streak into a nine-figure funding story by betting that AI won't replace the phone—it will answer it.

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Exclusive: How college photo-sharing app Swsh became an AI-powered fan data business backed by Scooter Braun

The startup has raised a $4 million seed round to help artists and brands turn fan-generated photos into marketing data.

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Exclusive: The researchers who built AI-generated DNA just raised $50 million to reinvent biology

Radical Numerics is betting that the future of bio-defense and AI drug discovery lies in understanding entire biological systems—not individual...

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SpaceX’s first employee, Tom Mueller, thinks the historic IPO is just the beginning

Tom Mueller, CEO of Impulse Space, says investors are buying a vertically integrated vision for space-based computing, AI, and the next industrial...

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Abridge wants to be the operating system for medicine—and NVIDIA and Eli Lilly are helping build it

The $5.3 billion ambient AI startup is expanding from clinical notes into billing, drug trials, and real-time insurance claims.

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AI drug discovery leaders warn U.S. health funding cuts risk falling behind global rivals

Executives from Lila Sciences and NVIDIA told Fortune that the convergence of AI and biology could redefine global competitiveness for decades.

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Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf says economic warfare is the ‘new normal’ for military conflicts—and the U.S. needs to get serious

The defense tech CEO told Fortune that America's biggest vulnerability may not be on the battlefield—but in its factories and supply chains.

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Why Lightspeed and Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport bet $37 million on an AI-powered cyberattacker

After frontier AI models exposed thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities, startup A is building autonomous defenses designed for an era of...

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Anduril’s Trae Stephens says defense tech is headed for a shakeout

The Anduril co-founder warns that sky-high valuations, too much venture capital, and unrealistic expectations could drive much of the industry into...

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Exclusive: Investors bet $40 million on Honeycomb’s no-inspection home insurance AI

The startup’s automated underwriting engine ingests hundreds of data points per property to price its policies.

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Town’s AI assistants learn your life—Andreessen Horowitz and Forerunner just backed the vision with $55 million

The startup, founded by former Plaid and Google executives, is building personalized AI agents that evolve from helpful copilots into autonomous...

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Ankur Jain says Bilt is building the ‘Shopify for housing’—and the company’s card is only the beginning

Bilt claims to process over $100 billion in housing spend annually as it expands into mortgages, AI concierge services, and neighborhood commerce.

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Exclusive: The next wave of AI drive-thrus is here—and a16z and Arc think it finally works

Founded by former Square and Cash App engineers, the startup is training restaurant-specific AI models to survive screaming kids, changing orders, and...

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How Metropolis built a $5 billion AI infrastructure company out of America’s parking problem

CEO Alex Israel says the company’s “recognition economy” thesis could reshape physical infrastructure, blending computer vision, biometrics, and...

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DeepSeek and China’s AI boom are increasingly powered by state money

Government-linked investors in China went from backing fewer than 10 AI deals annually before 2018 to more than 140 in 2025, reshaping who controls...

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The AI boom is pulling Europe’s hottest startups to the U.S.—whether they planned to move or not

Creadum partner Carl Fritjofsson says European AI startups are increasingly pulled toward U.S. customers and investors, despite Europe’s deep bench...

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‘The Butterfly Trust’: How Deutsche Bank maintained Jeffrey Epstein as a client until he was arrested

The bank said it fired Epstein as a client in 2018. In reality, it kept his accounts open until after he was jailed in 2019.

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Exclusive: ‘We’re spending millions to stop threats that cost thousands’: Startup Furientis aims to revolutionize defense

The novel defense startup just raised a $5 million pre-seed round.

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Exclusive: Martha Stewart’s new AI startup wants to manage your home before things break

Hint, cofounded by Stewart and backed by Slow Ventures, uses AI to track maintenance, insurance, utility costs, and repairs—turning the home into...

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Exclusive: Index Ventures backs Frame’s $50 million bet that employees are still cybersecurity’s weakest link

The startup uses AI-generated simulations to train employees against the fast-growing wave of deepfake and impersonation attacks targeting...

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Exclusive: Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave

A DeepMind engineer saw an opening in SAP's aging code. Investors are calling it a $40 million bet

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Exclusive: AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon

With $500 million already processed through its platform, Vori is scaling fast as it targets underserved grocery operators.

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Exclusive: Vanta hits $300 million ARR as ‘shadow AI’ explodes across corporate America

As companies struggle to control unsanctioned AI tools, the unicorn security startup has tripled revenue in two years and now serves 16,000 customers.

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Upfront’s Aditi Maliwal makes 3 bets a year and ignores the hype cycle

The early Chime backer argues the real differentiator for VCs isn’t intelligence—it’s connection.

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Exclusive: Omni raises $120 million to fix one of AI’s biggest enterprise data problems

Iconiq is backing the $1.51 billion startup building a “semantic layer” that translates company data for AI agents and humans alike.

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Exclusive: Startup Humble debuts cabless autonomous truck targeting $900 billion U.S. freight industry

Built by veterans of Tesla, Waymo, and Otto, Humble’s approach challenges how autonomous trucking has been done so far.

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From drought to demand: Biotech IPOs roar back with Kailera and Alamar

Strong demand for GLP-1 drugs and next-gen diagnostic testing is pulling investors back into life sciences, even as AI soaks up most venture dollars.

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Exclusive: Eigen raises a seed round from Benchmark to build the world’s first ‘mutual friend’

The company's 22-year-old founder left high school at 17, and is now tackling the loneliness epidemic.

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Exclusive: Hyfix raises $15 million to build a U.S. alternative to DJI’s drone dominance

The Craft Ventures-backed company is betting that a fully integrated, U.S.-manufactured chip can unlock a new drone supply chain.

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ARK Invest is betting on underdog drone delivery company Manna to beat out Alphabet and Zipline

Manna is leaning into a no-frills, ultra-low-cost strategy as regulators open the door to scaled autonomous delivery.

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SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could reopen the IPO market—or drain it

Startups are now split between legacy unicorns struggling to prove AI growth and new AI leaders that may be too early for public markets.

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Blend’s post-IPO reset: CEO Nima Ghamsari bets that AI can turn it all around

After a $4 billion public markets peak and a mortgage market downturn, Blend is refocusing on AI-driven automation.

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Exclusive: Treeline raises $25 million in Andreessen Horowitz-led funding to streamline IT services with AI

The round reflects growing investor interest in AI‑native platforms to modernize legacy outsourced IT.

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AI is reshaping the doctor visit—just not how you think

Zocdoc finds patients are increasingly arriving with AI-informed questions, giving doctors more to work with—but also changing how time gets spent...

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Exclusive: Blossom Health raises $20 million to bring an AI ‘copilot’ to psychiatry

The startup says its “AI-native” model can deliver faster access to care while keeping clinicians in control of treatment decisions.

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Exclusive: Cambridge Mobile Telematics secures $350 million from TPG, Allianz to make driving safer

The investment highlights how insurers are using real-time driving data and AI to price risk, prevent accidents, and improve road safety at scale.

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Startup Antithesis turns years of real-world chaos into hours of simulated mayhem—and key trading firms and crypto networks are paying close attention

Will Wilson’s AI software startup just raised $105 million from investors including Jane Street and Patrick Collison.

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Exclusive: Posh lands $37M Series B to crack the ‘what are we doing tonight?’ problem

The startup founded by two NYU students wants to turn your group chat into an actual plan—and has already processed $350 million in ticket sales.

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