Julie Bort

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Startups

Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup
Julie Bort

2 days ago
Startups

Series, a GenAI game development platform, has quietly raised $28M from Netflix, Dell, a16z, others
Julie Bort

2 days ago

Fintech

Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs
Julie Bort

Sep 24, 2024
AI

Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth
Julie Bort

Sep 23, 2024
Venture

Salesforce Ventures ups its AI fund to $1B, doubling it again
Julie Bort

Sep 16, 2024
In Brief

Fintech Bolt is buying out the investor suing over Ryan Breslow’s $30M loan
Julie Bort

Sep 13, 2024

Fintech

Bolt has quietly settled its lawsuit with Fanatics amid ongoing boardroom drama
Julie Bort

Mary Ann Azevedo

Sep 12, 2024
Startups

Why Y Combinator companies are flocking to banking and HR startup Every
Julie Bort

Sep 12, 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Announcing the final agenda for the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Julie Bort

Richard Smith

Rebecca Szkutak

Sep 3, 2024
AI

‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic
Julie Bort

Sep 1, 2024

In Brief

Carta’s ill-fated secondaries business finally found a buyer
Julie Bort

Aug 30, 2024
In Brief

The SEC just made life a little easier for smaller VCs
Julie Bort

Aug 27, 2024
AI

In 2024, it really is better to run a startup in San Francisco, according to data and founders who’ve relocated
Julie Bort

Aug 25, 2024
In Brief

a16z offers social media tips after its founder’s ‘attack’ tweet goes viral
Julie Bort

Aug 16, 2024

In Brief

Winning a gold medal is a lot like being a VC, according to Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner
Julie Bort

Aug 13, 2024
Startups

Here’s why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior
Julie Bort

Jul 25, 2024
Venture

These startups are trying to prevent another CrowdStrike-like outage, according to VCs
Maxwell Zeff

Julie Bort

Jul 19, 2024
Startups

Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs
Julie Bort

Jul 16, 2024

AI

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says he loves Sam Altman, believes he’s sincere about AI safety
Julie Bort

Jun 25, 2024
Startups

Fearless Fund’s founder has resigned, and it’s a sad reflection on the VC world for Black women
Julie Bort

Dominic-Madori Davis

Jun 25, 2024
Startups

How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)
Julie Bort

Jun 23, 2024
Fundraising

Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund
Julie Bort

Aria Alamalhodaei

Jun 19, 2024

Featured

GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A
Julie Bort

Jun 13, 2024
Startups

Rippling bans former employees who work at competitors like Deel and Workday from its tender offer stock sale
Julie Bort

Jun 7, 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Vinod Khosla is coming to Disrupt to discuss how AI might change the future
Julie Bort

May 22, 2024
Featured

I’m rooting for Melinda French Gates to fix tech’s broken ‘brilliant jerk’ culture
Julie Bort

May 19, 2024

Startups

With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back
Julie Bort

May 18, 2024
Startups

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

May 3, 2024
AI

Why code-testing startup Nova AI uses open source LLMs more than OpenAI
Julie Bort

Apr 24, 2024
Startups

a16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund
Julie Bort

Apr 19, 2024