Entrepreneurship
Seed Funding Signal: Monogram Raises $40M for AI
Consumer AI startup Monogram just emerged from stealth with a $40 million seed funding round, and the raise is turning heads for a simple reason. As PitchBook reported, the...
How Founders Can Scale Sales Without Building a Full In-House Team
Founders are often the strongest salespeople in an early-stage company. Their product knowledge is immediate, and buyers can speak directly with the person who shaped the offer. Trouble begins...
AI Tools for Small Business: Pie Raises $23.7M for Main Street
A startup called Pie just raised $23.7 million to bring AI-powered growth to Main Street businesses. The round targets a clear gap. Big companies already use AI to win...
Ollama Raises $65M as Its Open AI Runner Hits 8.9M Users
Ollama, the tool that enables developers to use their own hardware to work with open AI models, raised tens of millions in Series B funding. It raised $65 million...
Direct to Consumer Wins: How Moonkie Built a $38.5M Brand
A premium baby brand called Moonkie just closed a $38.5 million Series B after posting 9,300 percent five-year search growth. The company, founded in 2020, now draws roughly 161,800...
VC Funding Hits a Record $510B as AI Swallows the Market
So far in 2026, global startups have raised $510 billion. This was even more than the amount invested in 2025, which was $440 billion. The surge was powered almost...
Upcoming IPOs 2026: SK Hynix’s Record Debut Reopens Doors
South Korea’s SK Hynix just raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut, the largest first-time US share sale ever by a foreign company. The chipmaker priced 177.9 million American...
How to Sell Online Without Building a Website
If you have ever wanted to sell something online but froze at the words build a website, this is your moment. A new wave of tools is rewriting how...
AI Infrastructure Race Heats Up With Prime Intellect’s Raise
Enterprise AI infrastructure just drew another large round, as Prime Intellect raised $130 million in a Series A at a $1 billion valuation. The San Francisco startup, founded in...
Agentic Commerce Arrives as AI Agents Start Buying
The era of agentic commerce officially arrived when Salesforce made its Agentforce Commerce agents generally available, letting AI assistants guide shoppers from discovery all the way to checkout. The...
