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Artificial intelligence • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

No Summer Doldrums For Active Startup Investors In July

Joanna Glasner

August 7, 2026

Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names topping the ranks in several metrics including most prolific venture...

Artificial intelligence • Startups • Venture

The Return Of The Repeat Founder: Inside YC’s Growing Class Of Second-Timers

Mary Ann Azevedo

August 6, 2026

We analyzed a dataset of repeat founders who have gone through Y Combinator’s cohorts and found some very interesting insights. The dataset, shared...

Artificial intelligence • Education tech • Startups • Venture

‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs

Mary Ann Azevedo

August 5, 2026

Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders...

Artificial intelligence • Cybersecurity • Defense tech • M&A • Public Markets • Robotics • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

A Record 13 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture’s Historic Run Higher

Gené Teare

August 4, 2026

Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July. Startup capital totaled $55 billion, up 69% year over year, as the month notched the...

Artificial intelligence • Enterprise • Venture

‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work

Mary Ann Azevedo

August 3, 2026

We speak with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy about why AI is pushing the firm toward larger deals, what it has learned from its Anthropic relationship...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals

Joanna Glasner

July 31, 2026

Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe...

Business • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Real estate & property tech • Robotics • Seed funding • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture

These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year

Joanna Glasner

July 31, 2026

We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.

Artificial intelligence • Seed funding • Venture

Founder Traits And One Big AI Test: How Former NEA Partner Vanessa Larco Picks Winners

Mary Ann Azevedo

July 30, 2026

ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï News talks with former NEA partner Vanessa Larco about how she evaluates startups based on founder potential rather than initial ideas and...

Artificial intelligence • SaaS • Startups • Venture

The Sweet Science: Why The AI Era Belongs To Middleweights 

Guest Author

July 29, 2026

The biggest long-term gains from AI will not flow to heavyweight incumbents or many AI-native startups but to scrappy middle-market technology...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Real estate & property tech • Robotics • Venture

Schneider Electric’s VC Fund: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle

Gené Teare

July 27, 2026

ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies...

Artificial intelligence • Cybersecurity • Defense tech • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • SaaS • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals

Joanna Glasner

July 24, 2026

Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI...