Podcast Episodes

Anthropic cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models, also PlayerZero raised $15M and Figma’s stock soared in its IPO

Anthropic has revoked OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models, according to a report in Wired. Sources told Wired that OpenAI was connectin…

8 months, 1 week ago

Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments

Latvian startup Handwave aims to compete with Amazon palm payments by offering an independent alternative.

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8 months, 1 week ago

Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

SixSense offers an AI-powered platform that helps chip makers prevent defects. It landed backing led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA…

8 months, 1 week ago

AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

Israel-based eVTOL startup AIR has raised $23 million to scale production of both its piloted and uncrewed cargo aircraft, and enter the U.S.

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup

A marketing automation startup called Conversation has a founding story that sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valle…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

Nara Organics is a new organic, whole milk baby formula brand that's free from palm oil, soy, corn syrup, maltodextrin, and GMOs.

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Delian Alliance Industries recently raised $14 million in funding to continue building its defense products, which include surveillance towers, and c…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups ha…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

In red-hot acquisition market, this CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers.

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI

The internet trend is simple: A friend or family member looks into the camera and tells viewers, in a slightly aggressive tone, that they are about t…

8 months, 2 weeks ago