Notable Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator held a Demo Day for its inaugural Fall cohort this week. The 95 startups in this latest batch looked quite similar to recent YC cohorts in the sense that it includes many AI startups. If I did my math right, 87% of the startups in this batch are […]
The four startups from YC’s Fall batch that enterprises should pay attention to Read More »
Welcome to Startups Weekly â your weekly recap of everything you canât miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. The week after Thanksgiving is usually rich in announcements, and this year was no exception. Blame it on the holiday season, but we would even go as
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President-elect Donald Trump made no secret during his campaigning that he doesnât think the U.S. should take an aggressive stance on climate change. From leading chants of âdrill, baby, drillâ to frequently criticizing everything from wind turbines to electric vehicles, he appears poised to cast a shadow over the climate tech sector for the next
Climate VCs are cautiously optimistic about a second Trump term â hereâs why Read More »
This week on found, Dom and Becca are talking with the co-founders of Alloy Womenâs Health. The startup just closed a new funding round to expand its mission of fixing menopause care. Alloy founders, Monica Molenaar and Anne Fulenwider, discussed raising capital in a competitive health tech landscape, their choice to bypass traditional insurance models,
Alloy Women’s Health is making menopausal care accessible Read More »
When ServiceTitan dropped its S-1 notice of an impending public offering on November 18, many VCs likely rejoiced. A successful IPO by the company, which builds operating software for trade businesses, could be what the quiet IPO market needs to start shaking loose. But the timing of ServiceTitanâs IPO may not be entirely based on
Here’s why ServiceTitan was on the clock to go public Read More »
Heading into 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted weâd hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups during the year. While momentum wasnât a straight shot up and to the right, Packerâs prediction may still have come true. The volume of venture capital dollars invested into fintech companies based
Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025 Read More »
Sequoia says no exits, no problem. The Silicon Valley titan of venture marked up the value of its 2020 Sequoia Capital U.S. Venture XVII fund by 24.6% in June, at the end of a 12-month period, according to PitchBook, which ran analysis on data from the Regents of the University of Californiaâs endowment. Sequoiaâs markup
Sequoia marks up its 2020 fund by 25% Read More »
Welcome to Startups Weekly â your weekly recap of everything you canât miss from the world of startups. If youâd like to receive this newsletter in your inbox every Friday, sign up here! The week before Thanksgiving is typically busy with announcements of all sorts, but this week has been particularly interesting. Money was flowing to big problems, like defense, cybersecurity, and
Money for tech that matters Read More »
When Alex Hawkinson was the CEO of SmartThings, the consumer-focused connected devices company he co-founded and sold to Samsung for around $200 million, he kept thinking that internet of things (IoT) technology could probably solve bigger issues. He left SmartThings in 2018 to figure out where connected devices could make the largest impact. He co-founded
Physical AI startup BrightAI bootstraps to $80m in revenue Read More »
Itâs no secret that the venture capital industry is facing a liquidity crisis as IPOs and other exits remain few and far between after 2020 and 2021âs record-breaking years. Now, we have numbers that show just how bad itâs gotten. In 2023, the U.S. VC industry invested $60 billion more into startups than it collected
In 2023 VCs returned the lowest level of capital to their investors since 2011 Read More »
