Every tech publication ran the same headline in April: venture capital just posted its biggest quarter in history.
Danny Postma built HeadshotPro from a laptop in Bali and hit 300,000 a month in revenue. No employees, no office, no board meetings.
Submagic generates 8 million in annual recurring revenue. Thirteen employees.
Three weeks. That's the distance between what looked like a 90 million acquisition and a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing.
Wilbur Labs just dropped their 2026 Startup Failure Report, surveying 200 US tech founders who'd been through the grinder.
Two twenty-year-olds who dropped out of college just got valued at half a billion dollars.
Three years ago, when a startup died, the eulogy was almost always the same: "We ran out of money.
Three years ago, when a startup died, the autopsy was predictable: they ran out of money.
Somewhere around month fourteen, the math stops working.
Three hundred billion dollars flowed into startups in Q1 2026. Read that headline and you'd think we're living through a founder's paradise.
Sixty percent of executives who cut headcount this year did it in anticipation of AI efficiencies.
Y Combinator just graduated what everyone's calling its strongest batch ever.
A five-year study of 500-plus European startups just dropped some of the most damning survival data the venture industry has seen.
Grace Chang uploaded $30 million worth of research to Hugging Face in February. Not as a marketing stunt, not as a developer relations play — as a eulogy.
Scott Chacon literally wrote the book on Git. Pro Git, if you've touched version control in the last decade, was his.
Last week, Mastra — the open-source agent framework built by the ex-Gatsby team — announced a 22 million Series A led by Spark Capital.