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Y Combinator’s founder matching tool has quietly become one of most powerful offerings. That’s how medical records AI startup Hona was founded.

How Y Combinator’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M

Despite an overall decline in startup investing, funding for AI surged in the past year. Capital toward generative AI ventures alone nearly octupled from 2022 to 2023, reaching $25.2 billion…

These AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch

Despite all the enthusiasm, there’s a niggling detail that deserves our attention: AI startups often have worse economics than most software startups.

AI startups’ margin profile could ding their long-term worth

A European Union plan to support homegrown AI startups by providing them with access to processing power for model training on the bloc’s supercomputers, which was announced back in September…

EU to expand support for AI startups to tap its supercomputers for model training

We’re seeing a lot of folks push their capital into just a few squares on the betting table. One way or another, the result is going to be notable.

Today’s AI funding rush reminds me of the fintech investing hype of 2021
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How to bootstrap an AI startup

8:35 am PDT • November 3, 2023

When you take venture capital money, investors will shape everything from your strategy and product to your thought process. That may not be best for what you’re offering, especially in…

How to bootstrap an AI startup

Here’s what these 15 investors would have done differently in 2023 if they had a crystal ball to divine the future.

15 investors lift the lid on the biggest surprises of H1 2023

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VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think

With AI hype peaking, it would seem that investment in AI startups would be correspondingly high, but surprisingly, it’s way down.

9:00 am PDT • May 15, 2023
VCs love to talk about AI, but they aren’t writing as many checks as you might think

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So you want to launch an AI startup

At the Imagination in Action event last week at MIT, a number of industry folks talked about what it takes to build a successful AI startup.

9:00 am PDT • April 18, 2023
So you want to launch an AI startup

When Bret Taylor announced he was stepping down as co-CEO and co-chair at Salesforce in November, it was easy to be cynical about him saying he wanted to go build…

Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

As AI teams bring new products to life, it’s critical that they ask themselves the right questions to eliminate all kinds of bias.

4 questions to ask when evaluating AI prototypes for bias

Six investors we surveyed recently told us that the macro environment has had a big impact on deal flow, valuations and M&A in biotech.

As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023?

To get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today.

6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech

If your deck doesn’t give prospective investors a clear idea of how you will put their money to work, you’re not going home with a term sheet.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Summary slide showcase, video SEO strategy, how to value AI startups

Valuing startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel AI?

3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups

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Huge deals are pushing more AI startups into IPO territory

New data from CB Insights details a global AI funding market replete with activity, sharply divided by geography.

7:22 am PST • November 16, 2021
Huge deals are pushing more AI startups into IPO territory