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Novig: The Zero-Fee Sports Exchange That's Trying to Turn Sports Betting Into a Financial Market
Two Harvard founders raised $75 million to build the exchange model that traditional sportsbooks don't want to exist.
12 hrs ago
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Spencer Gareiss
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A Seattle Startup Just Said the Thing Every Regulated-Industry Builder Knows But Nobody Fixes
Iridius raised $8.6 million to embed compliance into AI execution rather than bolt it on afterward. That's not a product feature. It's a different…
May 13
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Spencer Gareiss
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Adfin: The Central Nervous System for SME Finance | How AI Agents Are Replacing Invoice Chasers
Two payments infrastructure veterans just raised $18 million to turn finance teams from reactionary chasers into autonomous decision-makers and they're…
May 13
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Startup spotlight
Robinhood's Venture Fund Got 150,000 Retail Sign-Ups. That's Not a Success Metric. It's a Warning Sign
My former employer is trying to solve the right problem with the wrong tool. Here's why that matters.
May 12
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Spencer Gareiss
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Four Companies Raised 65% of All Global Venture Capital Last Quarter. That's Not a Record. It's a Warning.
The WEF dropped a major report on VC concentration today. The implications go way beyond AI.
May 11
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Spencer Gareiss
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Five Deals That Actually Moved the Needle This Week
Space wars. Doctors who don't sleep. AI lawyers billing at $1,200 an hour. Goldman writing healthcare checks. And Nvidia showing up in every cap table…
May 8
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Spencer Gareiss
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Aaru: The $88M Bet That Surveys Are Already Dead
A two-year-old startup is replacing focus groups with synthetic populations. The ad industry, political campaigns, and Fortune 500 product teams are all…
May 7
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Spencer Gareiss
Rogo Just Raised $160 Million. Kleiner Perkins Called It "The Operating System for Finance
That framing isn't hyperbole. It's the entire investment thesis.
May 6
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Spencer Gareiss
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Standard Intelligence: The Six-Person Startup That Wants to Teach AI to Use Every Computer on Earth
Standard Intelligence raised $75M from Sequoia to build FDM-1, an AI trained on 11M hours of video. Here's why this 6-person startup is worth watching.
May 6
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Startup spotlight
Santander Just Paid £2.9 Billion to Learn That Banking Is a Scale Business
The TSB acquisition closed this week. The real story is what it says about who wins in traditional finance.
May 5
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Spencer Gareiss
Wall Street's New Junior Banker Doesn't Sleep, Eat, or Ask for a Raise
Rogo raised $160M led by Kleiner Perkins to deploy AI agents across the world's top investment banks. Spencer Gareiss applies the "10x Displacement…
May 4
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Spencer Gareiss
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Anthropic Is Worth $900 Billion. That Number Makes More Sense Than You Think.
The math behind the most important AI funding decision of 2026.
May 4
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Spencer Gareiss
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