Following intense backlash, startup accelerator Y Combinator quietly pulled a video from its X account demonstrating a new startup’s AI-powered worker monitoring software. The startup, called Optifye, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Lyra has raised $6 million to expand its AI-native video meeting platform. The San Francisco and New ...

A typical investor in a venture firm receives roughly 5,000 pitches in a year, and reads about 700 of them. They only spend 3 minutes scanning each deck, and may fund a handful of startups or none at ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. UK-based Wonder Studios — one of a growing crop of AI startups targeting Hollywood — has raised $12 ...

A disclaimer about this newsletter’s title: I didn’t quite watch 243 one-minute startup pitches myself during Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week. I think I probably set a personal record for pitch ...

Two MIT dropouts have raised $2.7 million for police tech startup Code Four. Code Four uses AI to generate reports from bodycam footage. Here's the pitch deck the Y Combinator graduates used to raise ...

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UK-based Wonder Studios raised $12 million to expand in the US and invest in original IP. The AI studio aspires to be a Y Combinator for IP, focusing on creative-friendly tools. With clients like ...