Podcast Episodes

Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework; plus Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan

On Monday, Luminal announced $5.3 million in seed funding, in a round led by Felicis Ventures with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI startup? Also, Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics

Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometh…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Israeli startup Milestone raised a $10 million seed funding round to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups

The goalposts are moving for AI startups when it comes to growth, product features and just about everything else.

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia

WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data n…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar

Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit; plus Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you

Two experienced investors share their tips for founders and operators hoping to nail product-market fit at their AI startups.

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start

Startups should start forging connections with late-stage investors while they are still at the early stages.

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1 year ago

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

Amanda Kahlow has been quietly been back in sales and marketing tech for about a year with agentic startup 1Mind.

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1 year ago