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How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI Jul 29, 2025

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The internet trend is simple: A friend or family member looks into the camera and tells viewers, in a slightly aggressive tone, that they are about to witness a presentation and that they had better be nice. Also, Acrew Capital's Lauren Kolodny led a $20 million Series A in Alix, a startup that uses AI to automate estate processing.

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Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison. Jul 28, 2025

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A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.

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Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more Jul 28, 2025

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It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives. Also, iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle has hardly any cash left.

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SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI Jul 25, 2025

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LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, along with existing investor World Innovation Lab (WiL), and new investors Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

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Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel Jul 25, 2025

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All-electric truck fleet startup Nevoya has landed a fresh round of capital and plans to expand.

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Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone Jul 24, 2025

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DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection. In other news, less than a week after becoming Europe’s latest unicorn, Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable has now crossed the $100 million annual recurring revenue mark.

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Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup Jul 24, 2025

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RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here's the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund's money.

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This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents Jul 23, 2025

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Startup Mixus has built an AI agent platform that not only keeps humans in the workflow, but also allows those humans to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack.

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Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot Jul 23, 2025

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Cursor-maker Anysphere is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in an effort to compete with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

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The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions Jul 22, 2025

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Tiffany Luck, a partner at NEA, outlined what she looks for in a pitch, during a presentation at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston.

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