Fundraising

From fraud detection to agricultural crop monitoring, a new wave of tech startups has emerged, all armed with the conviction that their use of AI will address the challenges presented by the modern world. However, as the AI landscape matures, a growing concern comes to light: The heart of many AI c

Raising a Series B is never easy, and it's become exceptionally difficult in the last year as the venture spigot slowed to a trickle. But it's a different story if you're an AI startup, right? After all, VCs are throwing money at the AI space. Not so fast. Already, the h

Y Combinator works with a few hundred startups twice each year, showing them off in a final pitch-a-thon. On Wednesday, the first half of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 cohort told a group of collected investors and media members what they are working on and how much progress they have made. With a

Crypto and blockchain startups haven't been having a good time raising funds for quite a while now, given the overall slowdown in funding, a stronger focus on due diligence, and concerns over the macroeconomic environment and regulations in the U.S. At first glance, August seemed to bring some

Would you eat lab-grown meat? Would you give the same answer if someone asked you to use a beauty product that had lab-grown collagen as an ingredient? Cellular agriculture — the process of growing an agriculture product from cell cultures — has been gaining momentum over the past few years. Ea

When it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the first questions is often: What should we do with it? Making new things is an obvious answer, though it's still an expensive proposition. Stashing it underground is another, cheaper option; it usually involves compressing a

There is no question that this market is tough for tech startups. The market meltdown today can be compared to the dot-com meltdown in 2000 and the Great Recession meltdown in 2009. But even in tough markets, there are many survivors. This article explores survival tips for startups — for both op

SAFEs, simple agreements for future equity, have long been touted as a founder-friendly structure for signing venture deals. But is it really fair to call them that? technewss+ recently surveyed a handful of VCs and founders about how they're feeling about SAFE rounds in this tougher fundraisi

Plastic in ocean bad. Plastic not in ocean good. That’s, in a nutshell, the pitch for CleanHub. The company has designed a whole business model and a track-and-trace model around that, so brands can rest assured that their plastics don’t end up in the oceans. Who these brands are and wh

It’s not often that a venture capital firm gets to back a startup again after it has exited — especially one that is still a private company. So when Builders VC got the call that the founders of cattle management software Performance Livestock Analytics (PLA) were looking to spin out from

Investors are throwing money at AI startups (though maybe not as much as you might think), so it’s no wonder that we’re starting to see them leaning on the technology to leverage their most precious resource: Time. In an effort to reduce bias and capture a more diverse group of founders

Gone are the days when you needed a developer to build an app for a relatively easy task. No-code and low-code development let you dramatically increase the speed of building and bringing simple (and, sometimes, not-so-simple) apps to market. I swear, half my life is being run by Zapier at the mome

Switch on your streaming service of choice or open the website for your preferred department store and a recommendation system is sure to kick in. “You liked this TV series, so we think you'll like this one!” Or: “As you're looking at a pink linen skirt, think about buying these crea

One of the main reasons we have yet to see a meaningful recovery in late-stage deal activity is the lack of consensus around how startups should be valued. No one wants to pay 2021 prices, but gauging what startups are worth now isn’t easy. However, there are signs that folks are coming to an