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  Weekend Analysis

  The road to scalable robots runs through elder care

  July 31, 2026

  VCs are betting on elder care to transform the physical AI and robotics sector, but ethics loom large.

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  Analyst Insights

  The venture secondary market’s biggest names are leaving. Now what?

  July 30, 2026

  Investors are likely to pivot from OpenAI and Anthropic to Stripe and Databricks.

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  AI & ML

  Tech leaders lobby against restrictions on open-source AI

  July 24, 2026

  The appeal lands days after the White House accused a Chinese lab of stealing from Anthropic, as the administration weighs whether to restrict open-weight models outright.

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  Unicorns

  2026’s decacorn class on track to surpass 2021 record

  July 24, 2026

  Nineteen startups crossed the $10 billion valuation mark as AI mega-deals concentrate capital at the top.

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  AI & ML

  The boom in AI cost-cutting startups may just be a token gesture

  July 23, 2026

  Startups promising to tame runaway AI spending are multiplying. Investors and founders say the problem is more a feature than a company.

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  Cybersecurity

  After OpenAI and Hugging Face incident, VCs bet on controlling the blast radius

  July 22, 2026

  The AI attack VCs saw coming just happened. The race to fund the defense is on.

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  PitchBook 100

  World’s most valuable VC-backed companies

  July 13, 2026

  The PitchBook 100 ranks VC-backed companies by valuation alongside recent secondary pricing data.

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  Top Investor

  Generative AI investors continue to battle in the top 10

  July 10, 2026

  While Sequoia held the top for the fourth year in a row, nearly the entire list was upended.

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  Weekend Analysis

  CVCs are spending more on less

  July 10, 2026

  Corporate venture capital arms focused on fewer, but larger investments in AI startups to gain preferred access to compute. “Frankly, the balance sheet growing is not the motivation.”

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  Venture Ecosystem

  The World Cup’s top startup ecosystems

  July 2, 2026

  As the host cities charm guests from across the world, which ones are most welcoming to VC?

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  Limited Partners

  Bending Spoons, owner of a collection of ailing internet brands, soars in Nasdaq IPO

  July 1, 2026

  The company’s stock closed 39.7% above its IPO price of $29 per share.

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  IPO

  Uber-backed Lime’s muted Nasdaq debut caps comeback ‘from death’

  July 1, 2026

  The company risked defaulting on its heavy debt load without a 2026 IPO.

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  Startups

  Unicorn companies tracker

  July 1, 2026

  Our global unicorn tracker allows you to see all the billion-dollar companies formed since 2016. Explore trends in unicorn formation by filtering for geography or date.

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  Emerging Technology

  General Intuition is turning video game clips into AI training data for robots

  June 25, 2026

  The startup raked in a $320 million Series A as world models for physical AI become the next big thing.

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  AI & ML

  Google’s $75M stake in A24 follows a 50% funding increase in AI content creation startups

  June 22, 2026

  AI is going indie.

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  VC

  When headline valuations aren’t what they seem

  June 18, 2026

  The high demand for hot AI startups has led to an uptick in different valuations for the same funding round.

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  Data Visualization

  Map: The Cursor backers new to Elon Musk’s orbit—and those who can’t get enough

  June 17, 2026

  A small club of VCs, including Andreessen Horowitz, backed SpaceX, xAI and Cursor, furthering ties to the “Muskonomy.”

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  Corporates

  Tech giants close AI gap with big buys

  June 16, 2026

  Salesforce just acquired AI customer service startup Fin for $3.6 billion, and SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billion.

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