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Former Partners From Index, Bessemer, A16z Raise $350 Million For New VC Firm Chemistry
Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil and Kristina Shen left top jobs at blue chip VC firms to launch Chemistry, a new equal partnership focused on backing Series A startups.
Stripe Is Acquiring Crypto Startup Bridge For $1.1 Billion
The now-confirmed acquisition, likely Stripe’s largest to date, comes as the $70 billion fintech highflyer makes a bigger push into stablecoin payments.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/10/17/stripe-talks-buy-crypto-startup-bridge-1-billion/
Notion And Stripe Trust This Year-Old Startup To Make Sure Their AI Tools Work
Ankur Goyal's year-old startup is popular with Airtable, Brex, Notion, Stripe and others building AI products. The LLM Ops startup offers evaluations, logging and more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/10/08/braintrust-ai-evals-raises-36-million-a16z/
Mercor’s AI Interviewer Has Vetted 300,000 Job Candidates. Now It’s Valued At $250 Million.
Mercor, led by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $32 million in a Series A led by Benchmark at a $250 million valuation, twenty months its after founding.
How Nichole Wischoff Won The Internet To Raise $50 Million For Her VC Firm
The Nashville-based popular poster on X and TikTok plans to write $1 million checks into startups in areas like the "new supply chain."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/09/04/nichole-wischoff-wins-internet-and-50-million/
Talent Startup Andela, Once Valued At $1.5 Billion, Taps Uber Exec As CEO
Ten-year-old startup Andela, valued at $1.5 billion, expects to grow its tech contractor marketplace by 15% this year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/08/22/talent-startup-andela-taps-uber-exec-as-ceo/
From OpenAI To Figma, These Are The 100 Hottest Cloud Companies
In 2024, startups riding the generative AI wave dominate the top of Forbes' annual list of the best private cloud companies.
Airtable’s New AI Tool Can Generate Apps From Just A Prompt — And Has CEO Howie Liu Back On Offense
Airtable’s new Cobuilder product generates apps just from a simple prompt — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO after painful job cuts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/07/24/airtable-ai-tool-cobuilder-generates-apps/
Design Startup Canva, A Challenger No More With Revenue In Billions, Cozies Up To Corporations With New Tools
Valued at $26 billion, Canva unveiled big business-friendly software updates to its 185 million monthly users as CEO Melanie Perkins heralded “the year of work.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/05/23/canva-new-tools-cozy-up-corporations/
‘This Is Insane’: OpenAI Investors Blindsided By Sam Altman’s Firing
Leading investors including Vinod Khosla and Reid Hoffman didn't receive advanced notice that OpenAI’s board would push out its CEO and cofounder, sources told Forbes.