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Venture
fromFortune
5 days ago

Term Sheet Next: Erica Wenger on elephants, branding in VC, and her first fund | Fortune

Prioritize durable, resilient, profit-focused companies ('elephants') over chasing billion-dollar valuation 'unicorns' when evaluating startup success.
Venture
fromFuturism
6 days ago

Founder Admits His "AI Transcription" Startup Was Just Him Joining People's Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

Apparent AI and automated systems often conceal human labor and deception, echoing historical hoaxes like Kempelen's Mechanical Turk.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Mercor pays over $1.5 million a day to humans training AI, says its CEO

Mercor pays over $1.5 million daily to more than 30,000 contractors who train AI models and achieved a $10 billion valuation after recent funding.
Startup companies
fromFortune
4 weeks ago

Can a startup be worth a trillion dollars? | Fortune

Trillion-dollar privately held companies are increasingly plausible, driven by AI valuations and rising private-market prices, challenging VC exits, regulation, and startup terminology.
Startup companies
fromFortune
1 month ago

The CEO of corporate credit card unicorn Ramp says the company's counterintuitive secret to success is helping customers spend less | Fortune

Ramp created urgency, scaled founder-led, and reached a billion-dollar valuation rapidly while focusing on measurable cost savings and AI-driven efficiencies.
Cryptocurrency
fromFortune Crypto
1 month ago

Kalshi is the early leader in prediction markets, but its rival Polymarket is worth nearly twice as much. Why? | Fortune Crypto

Polymarket's blockchain focus and potential token distribution drove a $9 billion valuation despite Kalshi's larger U.S. user base and regulatory lead.
#openai
fromFortune
1 month ago
Startup companies

Sam Altman on AI bubble: 'People make some dumb capital allocations' from time to time | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
Startup companies

Sam Altman on AI bubble: 'People make some dumb capital allocations' from time to time | Fortune

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Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Uber-rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale | TechCrunch

Rapido's valuation rose to $2.3 billion after Swiggy sold its entire 12% stake to Prosus and WestBridge Capital.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Ramp says it has hit $1B in annualized revenue | TechCrunch

Ramp reached $1 billion in annualized revenue, prompting a $22.5 billion valuation after rapid growth and a $500 million funding round.
Startup companies
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

From $1 million to $23 million in 14 months: How Anthropic is rewriting startup pay.

Anthropic's rapid valuation surge transformed employee equity into generational wealth, dramatically increasing engineers' paper value and reducing turnover.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Investors are loving Lovable | TechCrunch

Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable's cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion, reports Financial Times. Lovable CEO Anton Osika isn't currently engaging with the flurry of inbound, the Times says, which comes a few weeks after the startup announced a $200 million round at a $1.8 billion valuation in a deal led by Accel.
Venture
Venture
fromEntrepreneur
3 months ago

OpenAI's Sam Altman Warns: Overexcited Investors, AI Bubble | Entrepreneur

Investments in AI may lead to a bubble similar to the dot-com crash of the early 2000s.
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