Startups
Dex Raised $5.3M to Hire Your AI Engineers Without the LinkedIn Parade
Dex is building an AI talent agent for AI engineers, which sounds recursive until you notice the traction. Slightly smug premise, genuinely useful wedge.
Startups
Marloo Raised $10 Million to Free Financial Advisers From Paperwork
Marloo wants to bury financial advice admin in AI so advisers can act like advisers again. Suspiciously sensible, faintly unnerving, and easy to root for.
Startups
Series Raised $5.1 Million to Put Warm Intros in iMessage
Series lives inside iMessage, promising warm intros instead of follower theater. The Yale-built $5.1M pre-seed bet is weird, earnest, and more plausible than it should be.
Startups
Astor Raised $5M to Fix Retail Investing — Finally, a Fiduciary With Push Notifications
Astor wants to give normal investors a regulated AI advisor instead of a Reddit tab and a prayer. Slightly audacious, surprisingly grounded, and more plausible than it has any right to be.
Startups
brainjo Raised €2 Million for ADHD VR Therapy — Finally, a Headset With Homework
brainjo just raised €2 million to bring VR therapy to kids with ADHD. The pitch is earnest, oddly game-like, and far more plausible than the average headset sermon.
Deals
Hitachi Finally Finished Its 17-Year Spring Cleaning and I Respect the Commitment
Hitachi is shedding its last noncore business after a 17-year overhaul, which is either ruthless strategic focus or the most disciplined corporate decluttering of all time.
Startups
Humble Raised $24 Million for a Cabless Truck — Freight Finally Met Its Midlife Crisis
Humble wants to remove the cab, the diesel tank, and maybe a century of trucking assumptions. Wildly ambitious, oddly coherent, and hard not to root for.
AI
Jeff Bezos Named His AI Lab After a Mythologically Tortured Titan — and Raised $10 Billion Before Anyone Asked What It Does
Five months old, $38 billion on the scoreboard, and a business plan best described as 'all of the physical world.' The man is not messing around.
Deals
Fermi Named a CEO and CFO Double-Exit a ‘Strategic Evolution.’ The Market Responded Accordingly.
The AI nuclear startup with zero revenue and a $19B IPO just shipped its boldest feature yet: calling a leadership meltdown a rebrand.
Startups
Sinai.ai Raised $1.45 Million for Living Books — Finally, an E-Reader With Main Character Syndrome
Sinai.ai wants books you can debate, translate, quiz, and maybe emotionally co-parent. Tiny pre-seed, huge ambition, and I'm weirdly rooting for it.
Startups
Schematik Raised a Pre-Seed to Vibe-Code Hardware — Soldering Just Entered Chat
Schematik raised $4.6M to make hardware feel a little more like software. It is ambitious, oddly charming, and one fried board away from proving itself.
Deals
Factory Raised $150M to Replace Your Engineers
A startup literally named Factory just hit a $1.5B valuation for AI agents that do software engineering. Their key differentiator? Switching between AI models. Like every other AI coding startup.