What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work
The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully…
Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral
The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.
From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing
Ocean, an agentic email security platform, claims its AI can thoroughly analyze the context of every incoming email…
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.
Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and…
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours,…
ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.