Down rounds carry a stigma, but they’re not always the end of a startup’s story. Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures shares an example of a company...
Do you fit into one of the trendiest founder archetypes? Fundraising has always been competitive, but today’s market is especially tough for first-time founders. In the...
Raising your first round has always been hard — but in today’s market, the rules are changing fast. In this episode of Build Mode, our host...
Nobody has to care: that’s the biggest challenge facing many startups. Not every startup that struggles for funding is a bad business. Sometimes the metrics are...
For thousands of years, hair braiding has been a manual task, taking up to 12 hours at a stretch, as a stylist weaves patterns into a...
On one hand, US-based, Black-founded startups have already raised $643M, 70% of what was raised in the entirety of last year. But dig a little deeper...
Snowflake is betting that the future of AI isn’t just analyzing data, it’s acting on it. That means a shift away from chatbots and toward autonomous...
Tech companies are racing to build data centers in space, pitching orbital compute as the next frontier for AI infrastructure, even as the technical and economic...
Contracts take forever to get baked in at the government level. So terms changing mid-contract? Not normal. The Equity podcast team explains why startups chasing defense...
Raising a round may not be a signal to spend aggressively, and many of the best founders stay disciplined. Yuri Sagalov from General Catalyst advises to...