Deal Dive

While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care.

Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space

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Deal Dive: Not all climate startups are focused on carbon

Windfall Bio sells methane-eating microbes to companies to help them reduce their carbon footprint in the short-term.

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Deal Dive: Not all climate startups are focused on carbon

EarliTec’s FDA-authorized device helps clinicians diagnose children showing signs of autism as young as 16 months old.

Deal Dive: EarliTec Diagnostics raises $21.5M to help diagnose autism earlier

Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries.

Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing

VCs have long supported fast-fashion companies but the controversies and lawsuits they draw makes them riskier investments.

Deal Dive: It’s time for VCs to break up with fast fashion

Boomerang thinks so. It uses machine learning to match photos and descriptions of lost items to streamline the lost and found process.

Deal Dive: Can AI fix lost and found?

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Deal Dive: Tier and Dott’s merger is not a sign of what’s to come in M&A this year

M&A is expected to rise in 2024, but we won’t likely see a lot of consolidation among startups that wouldn’t make it on their own.

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Deal Dive: Tier and Dott’s merger is not a sign of what’s to come in M&A this year

A recent secondary stock sale shows that investors are starting to value Stripe above its most recent, slashed, valuation.

Deal Dive: A Stripe secondary deal worth paying attention to

Spotta’s devices can identify bugs before they become infestations, both indoors and outdoors.

Deal Dive: Thank god a startup is solving the bed bug problem

Montamo hires and trains people to work in the clean energy transition with an emphasis on helping migrants build a new career.

Deal Dive: Training the workforce for the clean energy transition

Nth Cycle is one of the few startups tackling the cleantech’s carbon-heavy supply chain and building a cleaner infrastructure for the sector.

Deal Dive: Making the clean energy transition, well, cleaner

RepeatMD recently raised a $50 million Series A round to serve the exploding med spa industry that is built on consumer beauty trends.

Deal Dive: Betting on beauty fads is big business

Pippin Title uses AI to help its customers navigate the fragmented world of property titles into one digital space.

Deal Dive: An AI application that isn’t just marginally better

There is a growing group of startups looking to expand the BNPL model into other categories.

Deal Dive: BNPL expands beyond its roots — that’s a good thing

It’s been over a year since Adobe announced that it intended to buy Figma for $20 billion, yet the two companies are still separate entities.

TC+ Roundup: What happened to the Adobe-Figma deal?

Popup Bagels raised $8 million in venture capital this week. But why would a bagel store chain want such expensive capital?

Deal Dive: Bagels with a schmear of venture capital

Tucker Carlson has raised $15 million for a new subscription-based entity. But he’ll need more than name recognition for it to succeed.

Deal Dive: Tucker Carlson is a media startup founder — again

Good morning! We have lots of good stuff for you this Tuesday, so let’s dig right in. Up first, we surveyed six investors who are placing bets on AI. We…

TC+ Roundup: How to capture market share in the era of AI

Why would a VC firm want to own its own healthcare system? Why would it want that stress or such a costly asset when it could just continue with its…

Deal Dive: Why does General Catalyst want to buy a healthcare system?

While many startups are looking to be the next Twitter, those targeting specific communities may find a better outcome.

Deal Dive: The future of social media is vertical

Bold creates personalized exercise programs for seniors to reduce injury. It’s one of the latest companies expanding the eldertech sector.

Deal Dive: Elder tech is expanding beyond reactive solutions

It’s not surprising Victory Park Capital can’t find a buyer for its stake in Perch; this market is tough for Amazon aggregator startups.

Deal Dive: I think I know why this company can’t land a deal

Would you eat lab-grown meat? Would you give the same answer if someone asked you to use a beauty product that had lab-grown collagen as an ingredient? Cellular agriculture —…

Deal Dive: A cellular ag startup with a real moat

While we don’t have the numbers, it seems safe to assume Parade won’t be the only DTC startup to see a similar exit.

Deal Dive: Forecasting rain on DTC’s Parade

For most startups it is hard to land a government contract but IVIX has landed multiple inside the U.S. and beyond.

Deal Dive: This AI startup is racking up government customers

Tiger Global sold its Flipkart stake at a valuation 7% below the startup’s last primary round. This outcome isn’t likely to happen again.

Deal Dive: Most secondary sales in venture won’t look like Tiger’s Flipkart deal

The startup is building a machine, VitalOne, that can perform more than 50 blood tests and get patient results back in 20 minutes.

Deal Dive: Cutting through the noise in a category clouded by catastrophic failure

Futureverse is making tools that brands can use to build content for the metaverse, but not the one that Meta is envisioning.

Deal Dive: Futureverse is a metaverse company that might actually get it

Performance Livestock Analytics spun out from Zoetis because the startup thought it could achieve better scale on its own.

Deal Dive: Backing a founder again after they’ve spun out from their acquirer

Everytable just raised $25 million for its for-profit startup that looks to make healthy food as accessible as fast food.

Deal Dive: Startups can still raise capital — even if it’s for a good cause