AI startup Zingage says healthcare belongs inside the home. Read the pitch deck that it used to raise $12 million.
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Payments company Zelis Healthcare hires Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan for an early 2026 IPO
Bain Capital-backed health payments company Zelis is bringing in nearly $1 billion in earnings. It's targeting a public listing in Q1 2026.
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Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna says the H-1B visa needs change — but a 'blanket' $100k fee isn't the solution
Ro Khanna said that the H-1B system needs changes. But he said the $100,000 fee could hurt startups, many of which are located in his district.
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Midi Health raises $50 million in funding as the menopause startup bets on longevity and AI
Midi's Series C raise comes as the startup's menopause care business surges. The company is now posting a $150 million revenue run rate.
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I'm a high school dropout who raised $6 million out of Y Combinator. Being a teen founder means you can take more risks.
18-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov dreamed of getting into YC while growing up in Kazakhstan, and he raised $6.2 million for his AI startup Nozomio.
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The Pentagon's startup arm postpones its internship program, citing 'emergent priorities' in an internal email
Some incoming interns had proposed start dates as soon as late September.
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Charlie Javice's sentencing could play a key role in the dealmaking renaissance
The sentencing shows that even when the victim is a banking giant — who the defense said should have known better — blaming the victim is little help.
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A new AI matchmaker will set you up and plan the first date — skipping the swiping and DMs
Amata, an AI matchmaking app, is launching in the US. It's raised $6 million from investors to set up users and plan dates.
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OpenAI's newest team is proof that there's a key shift happening in the AI talent wars
OpenAI's new team highlights a strategic shift in the AI talent wars, focusing on refining complex AI processes.
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I'm a Japanese founder who moved to Bengaluru to grow my startup. I love India's energy and how hard people work.
Reiji Kobayashi, who is originally from Japan, moved to India to expand his car microfinancing startup in 2024.
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'Can we find the next 40 Facebooks?': Behind the ambitious plans of 137 Ventures
137 Ventures scaled an early "few million bucks" in Palmer Luckey's Anduril into a $100 million position.
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Read the deck an ex-Waymo engineer used to raise $3.75 million from Sheryl Sandberg and Kindred Ventures
The San Francisco-based startup lets customers test their AI agents against vetted metrics and deploy them faster.
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AI training companies are raising billions to get humans to teach chatbots. Here are the startups cashing in.
AI training companies are booming as AI labs race for better chatbots. Find out who is cashing in.
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Inside the messy relationship between a medical records giant and healthcare's hottest AI startup
AI medical scribe company Abridge's closest partner and former shareholder, health records giant Epic, has become its biggest threat.
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20 startups that could be hit hardest by the new $100,000 H-1B visa fees
These startups, including OpenAI, received the most H-1B visas approved in 2025. Trump's new $100,000 fee could hurt some startups' ability to recruit skilled workers.
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Trump's H-1B overhaul could kneecap startups in the talent wars.
Startup founders are worried that changes to the H-1B visa program could make it even harder to compete with bigger companies in the talent wars.
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Why this startup founder scrapped her dating app to build a LinkedIn rival powered by AI
Clara Gold is the French founder behind Gigi, a new AI-powered professional social network. The startup has raised a total of $8 million.
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Live-in offices, air mattresses, and stacks of ramen: Inside the apartments of 6 young tech founders
Six young tech founders gave Business Insider an inside look at their apartments. Spartan living was common, as was sleeping where they worked.
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I played a VC firm's risk game about fake drugs. It revealed unsettling truths about AI and attention.
I played Lux Capital's game about fake drugs, inspired by Ozempic, crypto, and AI. It came with unsettling revelations.
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These founders built a map app for Gen Z to discover new places like restaurants and shops. They've raised $3.8 million.
Corner is a social mapping app for Gen Z. The app lets users save, review, and add restaurants and other places to personalized lists.
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The 6 most exciting AI vibe coding tools from startups in Y Combinator's summer cohort Demo Day
Startups that help with using AI to write code are emerging from Y Combinator's Demo Day. Here are 6 vibe coding tools from the YC summer cohort.
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The billion-dollar rivalry over 'ChatGPT for doctors' just got nastier with dueling lawsuits
Doximity is countersuing hot healthcare startup OpenEvidence after OpenEvidence claimed in June Doximity tried to steal the startup's AI prompts.
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Omnea raises $50 million from Insight and Khosla to help firms use AI to solve the 'unsexy' problem of managing tools
The AI for procurement field is heating up amid economic pressure, President Donald Trump's tariffs, and the AI boom, Omnea CEO Ben Freeman said.
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Between StubHub and Klarna, bankers say roaring IPO demand feels like 2021 again
Public investors are clamoring for new IPOs. But some bankers are seeing more buyers than top companies ready to list.
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Read the pitch deck these ex-DeepMind scientists used to raise $5 million for an AI 'algorithm factory'
Former DeepMind scientists raise $5 million for Hiverge, a startup developing AI to improve code.
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Defense tech's hottest new weapon: company swag
Anduril, Palantir and others are using merch to engage fans and investors.
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Read the pitch decks of 12 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions
Social networking and dating startups used these pitch decks to raise venture capital funding rounds.
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Stealth AI sales startup Spara raised $15 million after refining its idea with 'really smart people'
Spara, cofounded by an alum of luxury real estate brokerage The Agency, creates conversational AI agents for sales.
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Can AI fix venture capital's consumer slump?
It's been a rough few years for consumer investing. A small but vocal group of VCs is betting AI will change everything.
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Read the pitch deck a 25-year-old startup founder used to raise $14 million for her friendship app
Alyx van der Vorm launched Clyx to help people make plans with friends and meet new people. It's one of several apps focused on IRL experiences.
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This AI startup builds software that runs itself. Check out the deck Altan used to raise $2.5 million.
Altan creates AI agents that can autonomously operate software for customers, handling tasks like database creation and backend automations.
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How an early investment in Figure turned into a massive win for a VC who heard the pitch while eating burgers in San Francisco
DCM's early investment in Figure Technologies is set to yield a 60x return, based on the company's opening NASDAQ price. It all started over burgers.
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Read the pitch deck that an IRL social startup targeting Gen X and boomers used to raise about $9M and expand to the US
Meet5, a German startup trying to help adults meet new friends, raised a €8 million Series A to expand to the US.
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A white-hat hacking gambit spawned $48 million in venture funding for cybersecurity startup Koi. Read its pitch deck.
Koi has raised $48 million to help companies protect against software add-ons, which are increasing in usage and can evade traditional protections.
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The Department of Defense is betting on a startup that wants to control prosthetic limbs with muscle memory
The Defense Department's emerging tech group backed Phantom Neuro's implantable device that aims to control prosthetic limbs.
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This startup is taking on Tesla with its smart home energy system. Check out the deck Kora used to raise $2.6 million.
Kora says customers will be able to sell excess energy at wholesale market rates. Peek inside the deck it used to raise $2.6 million.
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A second-time founder graduated from Y Combinator with a new AI financial services startup. Read her pitch deck.
Eloquent AI is powered by a proprietary AI model, and it automates customer service for financial services companies.
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Silicon Valley's 'youthquake': In the age of AI, founders aren't waiting to grow up
Gen Z founders are ditching college and Big Tech jobs to chase AI riches in tech's latest gold rush.
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Meta's marketing chief says early-stage startups shouldn't create one kind of team — the CEO needs to take charge
Startups often build a growth team too early. Meta's chief marketing officer says it's the CEO's job.
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I left Meta to launch an AI startup. Now I'm offering up to $2 million to poach its researchers.
Memories.ai CEO Shawn Shen is offering big packages to recruit researchers from Meta, Google, and others. Find out why he's betting big on talent.
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This startup has built an AI 'copilot' for mechanical engineers. Check out the pitch deck it used to raise $9.7 million.
Leo AI's "large mechanical model" can help engineers find components by describing them to the AI, which is trained on materials like sketches.
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These are the 10 best banks for startups, according to founders and VCs
15 startup founders and investors picked the best banks they've worked with, across commercial banking, debt and equity raises, M&A, and IPOs.
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2 companies ruled legal tech for decades. AI is blowing that wide open.
Legal tech used to be a two-horse race. Now, AI makes it anyone's to win.
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This VC says all signs point to an AI bubble
When evaluating AI companies Nnamdi Okike focuses on quality of business model, revenue and much more.
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An ex-Bain consultant sick of copy-pasting translations just raised $1.5M for an AI startup. Here's her 15-slide pitch deck.
A Bain alum turned her translation frustration into Bluente, an AI startup that just raised $1.5 million.
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23-year-old cofounders left Amazon and Microsoft to build an AI startup. Read their Y Combinator pitch deck.
Bluejay's cofounders left their jobs at Amazon and Microsoft and raised $4 million to build an AI agent-testing startup.
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A Big Law attorney and two techies built an AI that predicts judges' rulings. See the pitch deck they used to raise $5 million.
The team behind Bench IQ, which includes a Kirkland & Ellis veteran attorney, thinks every litigator will want its "cheat sheet for the bench."
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This Y Combinator startup is using AI to simulate how people react to brands. See the pitch deck it used to raise $5.35 million.
Artificial Societies raised funding for AI agents that simulate consumer networks. Here's an exclusive look at its pitch deck.
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Andreessen Horowitz and other tech power players launched a $100 million AI-focused PAC
A16z and tech leaders launch $100 million PAC to shape American AI policy and counter China.
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