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January almost had its first pentacorn, and other startup news

January 10, 2025

How Techstars, Meta helped profitable LatAm startup Mercately raise a $2.6M seed

August 27, 2024

In Latin American countries like Brazil and Chile, messaging platform WhatsApp has become one of the most popular apps to buy things online....

VCs are so eager for AI startups, they’re buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices

August 24, 2024

VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the hottest ones —...

Bolt’s Breslow faces uphill battle with proposed cramdown

August 22, 2024

Update: We spoke with Ashesh Shah, the founder and CEO of the fund leading Bolt’s proposed $450 million raise for some much-needed additional...

Rippling’s Parker Conrad says founders should ‘go all the way to the ground’ to run their companies

August 18, 2024

HR startup Rippling has grown into a company valued at $13.5 billion with more than 3,200 employees. Despite that size, its founder and...

How CNH’s ‘black belt’ M&A head makes deals

August 11, 2024

Heavy equipment manufacturer CNH Industrial has a long history of mergers and acquisitions, at times supervising legendary brands like Ferrari. But five years...

Maybe Friend wasn’t crazy for spending $1.8M on a domain after all

August 11, 2024

When AI companion startup Friend revealed it had spent $1.8 million on buying the www.friend.com domain name last week, it set off a...

Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst thinks everyone needs to be more realistic on what AI can and cannot do

August 8, 2024

AI companies are gobbling up investor money and securing sky-high valuations early in their life cycle. This dynamic has many calling the AI...

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