Podcast Episodes

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity; Meta buys robotics startup

The direct-to-consumer skin, hair, and and menopause care brand Musely will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Also, …

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter; also, Shapes brings humans and AI into the same group chats

The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf and now have dueling ad campaigns.

Plus, Shapes, an a…

4 months ago

Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field; plus, BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund

Ships and planes carrying parts to the front lines would be vulnerable to attack. Defense startup Firestorm Labs thinks the answer is a drone factory…

4 months ago

BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech — a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer…

4 months ago

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

Plus, …

4 months, 1 week ago

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools; Also, another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident

Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.

Plus, Tec…

4 months, 1 week ago

Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI; Esther and Anne Wojcicki join new healthcare accelerator

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

Also, Mary Minno launches early-sta…

4 months, 1 week ago

SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people; AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city lea…

4 months, 1 week ago

SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news; plus, Loop wants to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions

Users are fed up with misinformation and AI slop cluttering their feeds. SaySo is a new short-form video app that delivers news from vetted creators …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO; plus, a simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI

Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its initial public offering.

Also, Antioch raised a $8.5 million seed r…

4 months, 2 weeks ago