Nevis: The Ex-Revolut Team Betting the Advisor's Desk Gets Rebundled

Wealth management is about to run out of advisors. Nevis just raised $70M to make the ones left do a lot more.

Oct 28 • Startup spotlight and Spencer Gareiss

Chariot Claims: The Startup Turning the Fine Print Into Leverage

Big companies wrote arbitration clauses to stop class actions. A $10M Series A is betting they wrote their own bill.

Oct 21 • Startup spotlight and Spencer Gareiss

ICON Just Raised $200M at a Lower Price. That Might Be the Best News It's Had.

BlackRock and Baillie Gifford are betting on robots that print houses, and the valuation reset is the most honest part of the deal.

Oct 14 • Spencer Gareiss

Spiko: The Startup Betting That Idle Cash Is a Bug, Not a Feature

A three-year-old Paris fintech went from $400M to $2.7B in assets in about 15 months by turning money market funds into software.

Oct 14 • Spencer Gareiss

Manus Got Bought, Blocked and Bought Back. Then It Raised $500M.

Beijing killed a $2B Meta deal. The company came out bigger, and the lesson for founders isn't the obvious one.

Oct 7 • Spencer Gareiss

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Multiply Labs: The $1 Million Dose Has a Manufacturing Problem

Science already invented the cure. Making it is the bottleneck, and a San Francisco robotics company just raised $75M to break it.

Oct 7 • Spencer Gareiss

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September 2026

Quartermaster: The Ocean Finally Gets Eyes

It gives ships free hardware and internet. In return, it's building the map nobody else can draw.

Sep 30 • Spencer Gareiss

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AMD Just Paid $8.2B to Learn What Its Chips Should Do Next

The chipmaker isn't buying a model. It's buying a feedback loop.

Sep 30 • Spencer Gareiss

Nvidia Just Put $5B Behind an AI Lab. The Real Asset Isn't the Model.

The next generation of startup moats may come from controlling the bottlenecks.

Sep 1 • Spencer Gareiss

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AI Just Raised $5 Billion. The More Interesting Story Is Who Controls the Compute.

he biggest VC deals are starting to look less like financing and more like infrastructure strategy.

Sep 1 • Spencer Gareiss

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August 2026

Gatik Raised $200M. Here's the Case for Boring Autonomy.

The middle-mile startup is winning driverless freight by choosing the problem it can actually solve.

Aug 28 • Spencer Gareiss

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Trucks, Grids, and a $250M Beta: The Week's 5 Startup Stories That Actually Matter

Aug 24 to 27, 2026. Nearly $650M in fresh checks, and what the smart money's really chasing.

Aug 28 • Spencer Gareiss

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