Why investing solo lets Refactor Capital's Zal Bilimoria be a 'lifeline' for founders
Bilimoria left Andreessen Horowitz to start Refactor Capital in 2016, where he's a solo partner investing in climate and biotech.
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The most hated workplace software on the planet
It creates mountains of busywork for everyone. So why do more than half of the companies in the Fortune 500 use it?
The Seed 40: The best women early-stage investors of 2024
Business Insider's Seed 40 list celebrates the top women early-stage investors who provide crucial support to budding startups.
The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2024
Dive into Business Insider's annual Seed 100 list, celebrating the early-stage investors who provide crucial support to budding startups.
How Shruti Gandhi, a solo venture capitalist with 15 exits in 5 years, went from underestimated to unstoppable
Array Ventures' Shruti Gandhi is quick on her feet as a solo VC, betting on startups she thinks will provide big returns.
How Termina selected and ranked the 2024 Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists of the top early-stage venture capitalists
Delve into Termina's methodology for assessing investors' performance for the data behind Business Insider's Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists.
How former Slack and Twitter executive April Underwood used angel investing to create a career in venture capital
An X and Slack alum, Underwood now coleads Adverb Ventures, a $75 million fund backing pre-seed and seed startups.
How Bloomberg Beta's James Cham finds the tech founders making a 'dent in the universe'
Bloomberg Beta's James Cham, who ranks third on Business Insider's Seed 100, considers it his job to find "the signal in the noise."
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Ali Partovi learned to code in a war zone. Now, he's trying to build a new kind of venture fund.
Ali Partovi learned to code amid the Iran-Iraq War. Today, he's one of Silicon Valley's top seed investors.
Anne Dwane has been a jack-of-all-trades in the startup world. Here's how that's helped her build a successful investing career.
Anne Dwane was a successful entrepreneur who cofounded Village Global, an early-stage venture-capital firm.
A new VC firm targeting consumer and culture startups launched with a $16 million fund. Here's why they're looking for 'slightly delusional' founders.
Hugo Amsellem and Etienne Boutan are bullish on a new wave of consumer startups.
Exclusive: 11x, a London-based AI startup that builds automated digital workers, is raising money from US fund Benchmark
The deal values the two-year-old company, which provides AI-powered digital workers for businesses, at around $100 million.
26 top defense tech VCs to know
A new wave of techno-optimist patriotism and rising geopolitical tensions are driving more venture capital investing to defense tech startups.
Exclusive: French VC firm Ventech has exited digital music company Believe and launched its 6th fund
French VC firm Ventech has exited digital music startup Believe, and is launching its sixth fund.
Holistic, a Paris-based AI startup founded by ex-DeepMind staffers, is raising a $200 million funding round, sources say
Holistic, which launched a few months ago, is helmed by ex-DeepMind staffers. It is set to raise $200 million.
See the 33-page pitch deck Kasa Living, which helps Wall Street landlords turn their real estate into Airbnbs, used to raise $70 million
Kasa Living is trying to disrupt vacation rentals. Here's the pitch deck CEO Roman Pedan used to raise $70 million last year.
Check out the pitch deck productivity startup Read AI used to land $21 million to fuel its meeting-summary generator
Read AI raised $21 million from Goodwater Capital for its generative AI to automate meeting summaries and other workplace tasks.
This AI startup that helps stores catch shoplifters just bagged $1.5 million in pre-seed funding without using a pitch deck
MokSa.ai, which aims to help stores curb theft and employee fraud using AI-enabled security cameras, is gearing up for an expansion.
Caviar, champagne, and IPOs: At the Jefferies Private Internet Conference, tech dealmaking was back
Jefferies resumed this conference in 2022 but there was not much to talk about in the way of actual deals. Now the logjam is finally breaking.
VCs are obsessed with vector databases. Here are seven AI startups in the space that have raised millions from investors.
Vector databases, which catalog and structure data, are crucial to LLMs. Here are seven startups that are building them.
Qureight uses AI to help speed up drug development. Check out the 11-slide pitch deck it used to raise $8.5 million.
AI techbio startup Qureight makes it easier for pharma companies to conduct clinical trials.
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These are the 11 startups most likely to IPO this year, according to analysts
There are signs that the IPO market could be coming back to life. Here are the 11 top contenders that could go public in 2024.
Check out the presentation edtech startup Superintelligent used to nab $2 million in pre-seed funding to help people learn how to use AI tools
Superintelligent, a startup offering AI education, has come out of stealth with $2 million in pre-seed funding.
Miki Agrawal has moved on from Thinx. She hopes you have, too.
In her first interview in years, Thinx and Tushy founder Miki Agrawal talks about her "poly-adjacent" family, her new startup, and why she won't go to work happy hours.
The 14-page pitch deck cloud startup Hive, which aims to offer a cheaper alternative to giants Amazon and Google, used to raise $13 million
Ex-Wall Street CEO David Gurle is building a cloud startup to take on the likes of Amazon and Google. Here's the pitch deck he used to win over VCs.
Meet newly minted billionaire Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who learned to code at 8
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now a billionaire thanks to his investments, Forbes recently reported.
How one real-estate unicorn is getting past gutting layoffs and slowing deals
Rising interest rates are shrinking startups left and right. Avenue One CEO Ryan Stroker lays out his plan for riding out the storm.
These are the 32 most exciting European fintech startups to watch in 2024, according to venture capitalists
We asked top VC investors from different European countries to assemble Business Insider's annual list of fintech startups to watch in 2024.
AI startup Kaikaku has launched a robot-powered restaurant. Check out the 12-slide pitch deck it used to raise $1.8 million.
Kaikaku has developed an AI robotics technology which powers its restaurant.
Lirvana Labs developed an AI companion that it thinks will revolutionize the classroom. Here's the pitch deck the startup used to land $5.3 million.
Lirvana Labs, an edtech startup using generative AI for personalized learning , raises $5.3 million in seed funding.
Exclusive: An investor in once-hot mental health startup Cerebral is suing the company
Cerebral investor Access Industries is suing another backer, WestCap, claiming a secret power grab inside the mental health company.
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Read the pitch decks from media and entertainment startups that have raised millions to disrupt Hollywood
Media and tech startups raised millions for their ventures with these pitch decks. Private equity and VC investors are backing firms with models aimed at disrupting Hollywood.
Inside Y Combinator's 60,000-square-foot, San Francisco college town
Take a look inside Y Combinator's 60,000-square-foot new headquarters at San Francisco's historic Pier 70 shipyard.
Here's the 16-slide pitch deck addiction care startup Pelago used to raise $58 million
Pelago just grabbed a $58 million Series C led by Atomico to expand care for substance use disorders. It could reach profitability after this raise.
Robo-lawyer startup DoNotPay did something almost unheard of in Silicon Valley: It paid a dividend.
The move to pay dividends could become more common as startups stay private longer and haggard employees look for liquidity.
The long, strange decline of one of America's most influential brands
Chicken Soup for the Soul was almost as big as the Bible. Then it lost its way.
Wirecard tried to destroy its whistleblower. Now, he's founded a startup to protect others who speak out.
Pav Gill, the Wirecard whistleblower, is using his experience to help employees avoid going through the same experience.
Here's the pitch deck this AI risk management startup used to raise $8 million in a round led by Point72 Ventures
A fintech automating parts of the risk-management process for AI models used this pitch deck to score an $8.1 million seed led by Point72 Ventures.
This biotech startup is finding new cancer drugs with $75 million from General Catalyst. Here's the pitch deck Georgiamune used to raise its Series A.
Georgiamune is testing new drugs for cancer and autoimmune disorders with $75 million in Series A funding from investors like General Catalyst.
More startups are paying for ChatGPT as generative AI becomes a go-to tool for tech employees like engineers
More startups than ever are paying for ChatGPT subscriptions even as cash remains tight.
900.care wants to make refillable consumer products the norm. Check out the 16-slide deck it used to raise $22.7 million.
The French startup wants to make refillable products the norm in the beauty and hygiene industry.
Metyos has developed a wearable to monitor chronic kidney disease. Check out the 8-slide pitch deck it used to raise $2.5 million.
The Paris-based startup is developing a wearable device for patients to manage their chronic kidney disease.
Exclusive: Glen Tullman's startup Transcarent is raising $125 million in new funding at a $2.1 billion valuation
Transcarent, the healthcare startup led by Livongo founder Glen Tullman, is raising fresh cash at a $2.1 billion valuation.
Only one generation has the skills needed to launch a successful new business
As the number of new businesses explodes, Gen Z is uniquely positioned to succeed in today's digital-centric marketplace.
See the pitch deck that helped a former Goldman Sachs exec raise $5 million for an AI-powered networking startup that feeds deal ideas to bankers
Louisa AI, which was founded within Goldman Sachs, uses AI and data to connect employees and suggest potential business transactions.
Reddit's co-founder is bickering with investors on the company's big IPO day
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian called out his former VC firm, Initialized Capital, for not congratulating him by name following Reddit's IPO.
Reddit has finally gone public. From Sam Altman to Condé Nast owner, Advance, here's who made bank.
Reddit, a tech company founded in 2005, debuted on the stock market amid a dormant market for IPOs.
HongShan split from Sequoia last year as US-China relations worsened. Now, it's eyeing up Europe.
HongShan, a $9 billion tech fund formerly known as Sequoia China, has spent time engaging with the European tech community in recent months.
Anthropic-backer Menlo Ventures is preparing for a 'gold rush' of AI infrastructure startups. Here's why.
OpenAI's ChatGPT drove an AI investment frenzy, and Menlo Ventures has a war chest to invest in startups revolutionizing AI's infrastructure layer.
Healthcare deals are picking up as VCs finally reopen their wallets. Here's what they are betting on.
Investors are finally reopening their wallets to back healthcare startups at all stages after a two-year funding slump.