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The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially dangerous contract negotiations.

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an extra $9 billion to sweeten the pot.  On this episode […]

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an […]

After selling his AI startup to AMD for $665 million, Peter Sarlin is back with Qutwo, a new venture building the infrastructure it believes enterprises will need when quantum computing finally arrives.

Marketing teams have become exceptionally sophisticated at acquiring traffic. Media efficiency improves each year. Creative testing is constant. Audience targeting continues to evolve. But an overlooked constraint often sits immediately after the click. When website performance deteriorates, it quietly becomes the weakest link in marketing. Slow page loads, broken customer journeys, and inconsistent tracking reduce the value of every marketing dollar before the organization even notices. The damage rarely appears all at once. Instead, it...

Rox, founded in 2024 by the former chief growth officer of New Relic, offers an AI-native alternative to CRM tools.

Sunday is on a quest to build a household humanoid robot called Memo that helps with tasks like laundry and clearing the table. The company emerged from stealth late last year and already has 1,000 people on its waitlist.

As companies race to adopt AI, Benchmark general partner Everett Randle believes the key to success lies in empowering every worker with AI superpowers, and Gumloop’s intuitive agent builder is an example of the kind of tool that will unlock that potential.

With hundreds of print-on-demand (POD) services available, choosing the right one for your merch business can be difficult. I’ve spent months testing and researching the top platforms for creators, entrepreneurs, and ecommerce sellers. Whether you want to launch your own…

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This season on Build Mode, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. This week we’re exploring different kinds of co-founder dynamics and what it takes to build a startup with your family.

This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

Learning how to get ketchup out of clothes is one of those skills you pick up the hard way, usually at a summer barbecue, usually on something you care about, always at the worst possible moment. Mine was

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Kraft Heinz is having another “brand-wagon moment.” Its new CEO, Steve Cahillane, announced that the organization would be postponing the previously announced split into two separate companies. This was a split that Wall Street hailed as marvelous. CEO Cahillane believes that a resource-funded focus on its stable of core Americana brands  – getting back on the brand wagon – can bring Kraft Heinz back to profitability and, hence, generate shareholder value. Shareholder value has been...

inDrive has closed its acquisition of KraveMart, expanding grocery delivery in a market dominated by Foodpanda.

Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield.

Fi, founded by former Google Pay executives, is discontinuing banking services over four years after launch.

Swedish vibe-coding unicorn Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in February.

E-commerce company Quince has raised another massive round, less than a year after its previous raise.

Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year's end.

With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.