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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends
Rillet, a two-year-old startup building what it calls the first truly AI-native accounting platform, has raised a $100 million Series ...
Is Silicon Valley in the Justice Dept.’s Sights?
Andrew here. There’s some new drama in the planned $12.5 billion sale of the L.A. Lakers. Josh Kushner and Bob ...
AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal
This was a headline I’d been waiting to see. “Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and ...
Boiler room accused of hiding fees on $74 million in SpaceX, Anthropic, Anduril, and Perplexity
A sales force of more than 100 agents allegedly cold-called thousands of prospective investors with sleek, scripted pitches for shares ...
87.5% of venture dollars went to AI. The rest fought over scraps
It’s an AI world and we’re all just living in it. PitchBook released its Q2 2026 U.S. VC Valuations data ...
Khosla leads $310 million raise for unicorn mining startup Mariana Minerals
The last century was fueled by oil and gas. Turner Caldwell is betting the next century runs on metals. “We’re ...
Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing
Michael Burry, the investor made famous in “The Big Short,” has warned about an artificial intelligence bubble. So has Dean ...
FIFA’s plan to sell private investors a stake for billions sparks backlash and feud with Europe
Backlash to the proposed multi-billion private investment in FIFA, the organizer of soccer’s World Cup tournament, has come fast and ...
Europe Wants to Break Free From American and Chinese Technology. But How?
The French government said this year that it would replace Zoom and other American videoconference software with a French-developed alternative. ...
Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones
At a secret location in southern Germany, the manager of a drone factory owned by Helsing SE — Europe’s most ...
Asia’s founders are decamping to the U.S. as the region suffers a protracted venture funding slump
Yoevan Khemlani had already begun building his AI company in Singapore when he realized that all his customers were looking ...
Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Other Old Internet Brands, Is Going Public
America Online merged with Time Warner in 2001 in a deal worth $165 billion. This year, what remains of AOL ...
OpenAI Leans Toward Holding Up I.P.O. Until Next Year
OpenAI is leaning toward holding off its initial public offering until next year, three people involved in the company’s deliberations ...
SpaceX is about to make history—and 80% of VCs won’t see a dime of it
Hi, this is Amanda Gerut pinch writing for Allie Garfinkle from Aspen where we just wrapped the 25th annual Fortune ...
Morpho raises $175 million in a round led by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital
Paul Frambot has a message for the “suits” at traditional financial institutions. “I think TradFi is going to have to ...
Exclusive: Apoha, startup pioneering AI based on liquid ‘wave form’ data, gets $36 million Series A
Apoha, a deep tech startup that is building AI models for creating new kinds of substances—from proteins to food products ...
Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones
Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand ...
I raised $15 million without VC in one of tech’s most capital-intensive sectors. Here’s what I learned
Hebron Sher is the co-founder and CEO of Zevo, a peer-to-peer EV and electrified asset sharing platform. Through its micro-lease ...
Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up
Anthropic, once the lesser-known artificial intelligence competitor to OpenAI, has been on an inexorable rise over the past few months.The ...
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