Jeff Bezos just invested in laundry-folding robots
Jeff Bezos just invested in a robot company called Physical Intelligence. Its robots can fold laundry and put eggs in a carton.
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Inside Forward's failed attempt to revolutionize the doctor's office with AI
Forward shuttered after raising $650 million for its AI doc-in-a-box. This is the definitive story of how the healthcare startup crashed and burned.
Ark's Cathie Wood changed Wall Street. Now, she's set her sights on venture capital.
Cathie Wood's Ark Venture Fund aims to disrupt venture capital by granting retail investors access to high-growth startups, tripling assets to $70 million despite lagging S&P 500.
OpenAI reportedly facing issues with its new AI model is a red flag for the entire industry
OpenAI's Orion AI model lacks the expected leap in progress, facing data shortages and energy issues.
London startup Agemo has exited stealth. Now, it's building AI reasoning for software to take on Poolside and Magic.
Here's how London-based Agemo wants to take on Poolside and Magic, and enable non-developers to create software.
$3 billion startup Sword Health cuts some physical therapists as it ramps up AI to treat more patients
Sword Health is trying to use AI to allow its physical therapists to treat more patients, people familiar with the situation said.
Check out the more than 60 pitch decks fintechs used to raise millions in funding from top investors
Here are the pitch decks that fintechs used to raise millions of dollars, from seed rounds to Series D.
Startups are ready to thrive under Trump, but some uncertainty remains in a key corner of the space
Trump's deregulation could boost tech, but his stance on AI and immigration leaves the future uncertain, especially for skilled workers.
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Deckmatch uses AI to find and streamline deals for investors. Check out the 13-slide deck it used to raise $3.1 million.
Deckmatch wants to replicate what Google has done with its search tool — but for private market investors.
Meet Peter Thiel, the controversial tech billionaire and GOP kingmaker
Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal, is one of tech's most public Conservatives.
Silicon Valley is on edge as Trump's immigration policy sparks fears of a high-tech talent shortage
Trump has said he plans for mass deportations. What's less understood is how he will shape a legal immigration system that pipes talent into tech.
Healthcare investors are torn on Trump's second term
Healthcare investors are desperate for big returns in a second Trump term. But his health policy proposals are making them nervous.
Silicon Valley is betting a Musk-inspired Trump could unleash a startup boom
Silicon Valley anticipates growth with Trump's win and Elon Musk's support, expecting deregulation to boost innovation and help startup and tech-giant mergers.
I recruit for VC firms. Here's what they're looking for in candidates — and how to stand out in interviews.
Emma Halls recruits candidates for VC firms across Europe and the US. Here's how applicants can land an interview and get a job in VC.
Silicon Valley is officially grieving over Trump but quietly gleeful over a possible tech deal resurgence
As Trump's win stirs uncertainty in Silicon Valley, tech investors weigh regulatory shifts, a changing M&A market, while pondering the future of antitrust policies under his administration.
Silicon Valley's Trump boosters celebrate: 'It's time to build'
Silicon Valley's tech leaders and VCs celebrated Trump's win, highlighting a growing GOP influence in the traditionally liberal tech industry.
For women building AI startups, finding community has been the key to success
Women building AI startups find success by through supportive communities to overcome challenges like limited VC funding and gender bias in tech.
Jeff Bezos just made his latest bet in the AI robotics space. Here are the 6 startups he's backed so far.
Jeff Bezos has backed a number of spatial intelligence startups that lets robots autonomously navigate and interact within their environments via AI.
Chip giant Nvidia wants to bring robots to the hospital
"Your whole hospital is going to turn into an AI," Nvidia's VP of healthcare told BI. Here's what the tech giant wants to see in healthcare robotics.
Endeavor is using AI to modernize manufacturing. Check out the 9-slide deck it used to raise a $7 million seed round.
San Francisco-based Endeavor uses AI to automate tasks in traditional manufacturing industries like steel or automotive.
Elon Musk's xAI startup could soon be worth many times more than X
Elon Musk's xAI is set to outpace X's valuation by over four times, aiming for a $40 billion mark as Fidelity cuts X's worth by 79% to $9.4 billion.
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Big Fidelity funds own more than $100 million in OpenAI stock, filings show
Fidelity invested in OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding round, which closed a few weeks ago.
BBG Ventures raises $60 million for its latest fund and moves beyond just backing female founders
BBG Ventures raises a $60 million fund and adds new investors like Pivotal Ventures, California Endowment, and Mizuho.
Evertune is building marketing analytics tools for LLMs. Check out the pitch deck it used to launch from stealth with $4 million in seed funding from Eniac.
Evertune raises $4 million in seed funding to develop marketing analytics tools that boost SEO on LLMs like ChatGPT, helping brands analyze AI-generated recommendations.
Data startup Matia just emerged from stealth with a $10.5 million seed round — check out its 11-slide pitch deck
Miami-based Matia has emerged from stealth with a supersized seed round for its software that helps companies manage their data for AI applications.
Weight loss care is leading IPO-hopeful Omada Health's latest growth surge as Ozempic boom continues
Employers are rushing to Omada to get the startup's help managing patients on costly drugs like Ozempic.
This startup for traders raised $30 million from investors including Stanley Druckenmiller and Greg Coffey. Here's how it plans to transform how Wall Street analyzes data.
The startup has signed on ExodusPoint, Soros Fund, and Millennium Management, whose founder Izzy Englander also invested in a past round.
VCs are 'hedging their bets,' backing competing LLMs like Anthropic and OpenAI, breaking a long-standing venture taboo
There has traditionally been an unspoken rule for VCs to not back competitors. But now investors are backing competing LLM startups.
Exclusive: Maven Clinic is swapping out its finance chief as the women's-health unicorn looks ahead to an IPO
Kristina Campbell, Maven's former chief financial officer, left the women's-health startup on the heels of its $125 million Series F fundraise.
13 creator-economy startups to watch in 2024, according to top VCs
Venture-capital firms shared the creator startups they saw as promising in 2024, from AI companies to influencer-marketing firms.
A payments startup hoping to take on Stripe and Square just raised $75 million with this pitch deck
Finix is going after a piece of the payments pie with the startup's no-code solution. Here's the 26-slide deck that won over investors.
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The CEO of Perplexity said the AI-powered search engine isn't trying to replace the news
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas addresses lawsuits from news publishers, and defends company practices at WSJ Tech Live conference.
Exclusive: Legal tech startup Genie AI just raised $17.8 million in a Google Ventures-led round with this 13-slide deck
Genie AI has developed an editing platform that uses AI to draft and review legal documents for companies.
Exclusive: AI startup Attention just raised $14 million to bring its natural language processing tech to sales calls
Attention uses AI and natural language processing to record sales calls, analyze data, and generate next steps.
'The million-dollar question of this election': Women's health startups are confronting a shifting legal landscape
Startups offering medication abortions, contraception, and period-tracking apps are preparing for the risks of another Trump presidency.
These tech investors are trawling UC Berkeley to fund the next Perplexity or Databricks
The House Funds invests in a conveyor belt of entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University of California, Berkeley.
Venture capital is going to war over the election. Here's the data to prove it.
Data from the Federal Elections Commission shows how workers at venture capital firms are donating to political campaigns this election.
2025 could bring a wave of healthcare IPOs. Here's what startups should know, according to a top banker.
Jon Swope, a Barclays managing director, says some lessons learned in the healthcare industry will set the next wave of IPOs apart.
Inshur provides embedded insurance to ride-hailing companies like Uber. Check out the 16-slide pitch deck used to secure $19 million.
Inshur, which works with companies like Uber to offer AI-enabled vehicle insurance, has raised $19 million in funding.
Exclusive: The cofounder of GroupMe and Splice is taking on the $180 billion supplement industry with new startup SuppCo
The three-time cofounder of Splice, Blade, and GroupMe raised $5.5 million for his new startup SuppCo to help people find trusted supplements.
AI sales startup Clay is raising a new funding round at a $1.3 billion valuation, sources say
Clay helps sales teams by automating outreach to potential customers. The company last raised $46 million at a valuation of $500 million.
Security threats to AI models are giving rise to a new crop of startups
AI's rapid adoption highlights security issues, prompting startups such as Zendata and Credo AI to address data leakage and unauthorized access risks.
Read the pitch decks of 6 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions
Social networking and dating startups used these pitch decks to raise Series A and seed venture rounds.
AI labs are fragmenting because of ego clashes and commercial pressures. It's about to drive a wave of new startups.
As AI labs splinter, exited researchers are leaving to form new startups that investors are eager to back.
A boba business storm is brewing, and a 'Shang-Chi' star is in the middle of it
Simu Liu, who was representing his VC firm on "Dragons' Den," criticized two entrepreneurs' pitch for a healthier boba drink.
This startup uses AI to predict wildfires. Check out the 10-slide deck OroraTech used to raise a $27 million Series B.
OroraTech, which collects thermal data, and uses predictive AI to assess the risk of wildfires, has raised $27 million in Series B funding.
AI coding startups are becoming a hotspot for VCs. Here are the 12 copilots that have landed funding from funds like a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo Ventures.
VCs are excited about generative AI startups that can make coding more efficient. Poolside, Magic, and Augment have raised the most funding.
A social-calendar app that helps friends sync their schedules and make plans raised $8 million. Read its pitch deck.
Howbout, a UK-based social-calendar app, wants to help friends make plans. Users can see when friends are available, vote on plans, chat, and more.
Suki just raised $70 million for its healthcare AI assistant to beat out rival Abridge. See the 17-slide pitch deck it used.
Suki just grabbed fresh funding from Hedosophia to beat out Abridge in the healthcare AI race. See the 17-slide pitch deck it used to raise the cash.
Cloud-API startup Kong valued at around $2 billion in a new funding round led by Tiger Global
Kong, which offers cloud-based APIs, is valued at about $2 billion in a new funding round led by Tiger, sources say.