Ant Group runs Alipay.
Most AI startups raise money because they have to. Venice AI raised money because it could.
Last week, RunPod turned down at least two acquisition offers north of $500 million.
Three and a half years after ChatGPT went live, PitchBook is counting the bodies.
Lee Kindell runs a chain of pizza restaurants in Seattle.
Ten months ago, an AI agent couldn't buy a $0.002 API call without a human pulling out a credit card.
Zeb Evans posted a memo on Sunday that should make every startup employee uncomfortable. The ClickUp CEO didn't use the word "layoffs.
On March 18, Cove's three founders sent an email to their users. The Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform would shut down on April 1.
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.