AI startups
When Nick Frosst was in college over a decade ago, he was worried he was a little late to the AI game. Frosst, a co-founder…
Menlo Ventures and Anthropic are teaming up on a $100 million fund dubbed “the Anthology Fund” to invest in pre-seed and Series A AI startups.
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally.
India’s top AI startups include those building LLMs and setting up the stage for AGI as well as bringing AI to cooking and serving farmers.
18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.
Big Tech companies are plowing money into AI startups, which could help them dodge antitrust concerns
Another week and another round of crazy cash injections and valuations emerged from the AI realm. DeepL, an AI language translation startup, raised $300 million on a $2 billion valuation;…
It’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced a $220 million…
How Y Combinator’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M
Y Combinator’s founder matching tool has quietly become one of most powerful offerings. That’s how medical records AI startup Hona was founded.
We’re off to an AI-heavy start to the week. OpenAI has a new deal with the Financial Times that caught our eye. Sure, it’s another…
The AI boom, love it or find it to be a bit more hype than substance, is here to stay. That means lots of companies…
Despite an overall decline in startup investing, funding for AI surged in the past year. Capital toward generative AI ventures alone nearly octupled from 2022 to 2023, reaching $25.2 billion…
Despite all the enthusiasm, there’s a niggling detail that deserves our attention: AI startups often have worse economics than most software startups.
A European Union plan to support homegrown AI startups by providing them with access to processing power for model training on the bloc’s supercomputers, which was announced back in September…
We’re seeing a lot of folks push their capital into just a few squares on the betting table. One way or another, the result is going to be notable.
When you take venture capital money, investors will shape everything from your strategy and product to your thought process. That may not be best for what you’re offering, especially in…
Here’s what these 15 investors would have done differently in 2023 if they had a crystal ball to divine the future.
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VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think
With AI hype peaking, it would seem that investment in AI startups would be correspondingly high, but surprisingly, it’s way down.
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So you want to launch an AI startup
At the Imagination in Action event last week at MIT, a number of industry folks talked about what it takes to build a successful AI startup.
Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup
When Bret Taylor announced he was stepping down as co-CEO and co-chair at Salesforce in November, it was easy to be cynical about him saying he wanted to go build…
As AI teams bring new products to life, it’s critical that they ask themselves the right questions to eliminate all kinds of bias.
Six investors we surveyed recently told us that the macro environment has had a big impact on deal flow, valuations and M&A in biotech.
To get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today.
If your deck doesn’t give prospective investors a clear idea of how you will put their money to work, you’re not going home with a term sheet.
Valuing startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel AI?
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Huge deals are pushing more AI startups into IPO territory
New data from CB Insights details a global AI funding market replete with activity, sharply divided by geography.
