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More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal

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Weeks after the revelation that Google paid Windsurf $2.4 billion to license its technology, while simultaneously hiring away its CEO and top talent, the deal’s implications are still rattling some founders and startup employees across Silicon Valley. Google’s payment to the startup was effectively split in two equal parts, according to two people familiar with […]

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Iconiq’s Will Griffith explains how his firm celebrated Figma’s IPO and why investors sold shares

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Will Griffith had only been two months in his job as a venture investor for Iconiq when he met a 19-year-old college dropout named Dylan Field. This would lead to one of his signature seed investments, in a startup called Figma. On Thursday, Figma went public with the stock popping from the $33 IPO opening

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How a New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs

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Skyrocketing demand for copper promises to push prices to new heights. As the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels, it is going to need twice as much copper in the coming years than humanity has mined throughout all of its existence. Still Bright, a New Jersey-based startup founded in 2022, thinks it has found

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This Greek startup is challenging defense giants with its low-cost autonomous weapon systems

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This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos and Alex Gove of StrictlyVC speak with Dimitrious Kottas, the founder and CEO of Delian Alliance Industries. They discuss his journey from Apple’s Special Projects Group to building autonomous defense systems in Greece; how his company is reimagining surveillance and strike capabilities using AI and commercial

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Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

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Early-stage founders just can’t get away from TAM — the concept of having a total addressable market for their startup to disrupt and conquer. But Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: Many startups have emerged from markets that, at the

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Amid increased momentum for defense, the NATO Innovation Fund refreshes its investment team

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Two years after securing $1 billion in commitments from over 20 countries, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is entering a new chapter, marked by the arrival of two new partners and the departure of its penultimate founding team partner. In a context of increased military spending across NATO members, investment in dual-use technology has skyrocketed

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