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Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners just made its own notable hire in that vein, bringing on Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major following on Instagram and […]

Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups.

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” happening June 4-10!

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

The new funding brings Index's total available investing capital to $3.5 billion.

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.

London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am.

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]

a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.