• Work hard, play hard is over: inside Silicon Valley's 996 culture
  Jan 22 · Forbes Phosphor

• Didit closes $7.5M seed to build the infrastructure for identity and fraud
  May 26 · Didit Blog Didit W26
• “I’m not here to solve Earth’s problems.” — the 23-year-old building moon hotels
  May 21 · Talks With Dasha GRU Space W26
• Stilta announces $10M seed backed by YC and a16z months after launch
  May 19 · TechCrunch Stilta W26
• Luel raises $31M seed from General Catalyst and Lightspeed
  May 15 · Luel Blog Luel W26
• Greenboard raises $15.5 million Series A to keep compliance from slowing down business
  May 12 · Fortune Greenboard W24
• Fazeshift raises $17M Series A to automate accounts receivable with AI agents
  May 7 · Crunchbase News Fazeshift S24
• Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
  May 6 · TechCrunch Corgi S24
• AI in chemical discovery: why data generation matters more than model architecture
  Apr 30 · Forbes Yoneda Labs W24
• Phonely lands $16 million Series A
  Apr 16 · The SaaS News Phonely S24
• Chad Rigetti's Sygaldry raises $139 million for quantum hardware for AI data centers
  Apr 14 · Fortune Sygaldry P25
• Solidroad raises $25M in Series A funding
  Apr · FinSMEs Solidroad W25
• AI is the boss at this retail store. What could go wrong?
  Apr 10 · NBC News Andon Labs W24
• Mastra raises $22M Series A to help every developer build agents
  Apr 9 · Mastra Blog Mastra W25
• Mosaic raises $3.8M to build video editing agents
  Apr 8 · Mosaic Blog Mosaic W25
• Conductor's Series A
  Mar 30 · Conductor Blog Conductor S24
• Starcloud raises $170 million Series A to build data centers in space
  Mar 30 · TechCrunch Starcloud S24
• PointOne raises $16M to help lawyers track billable hours with AI
  Mar 23 · Business Insider PointOne W24
• Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on data centers in space
  Mar 18 · Sequoia Capital Starcloud S24
• Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder
  Mar 12 · TechCrunch Gumloop W24
• Coding after coders: the end of computer programming as we know it
  Mar 12 · NYT Hyperspell F25
• AgentMail raises $6M to build an email service for AI agents
  Mar 10 · TechCrunch AgentMail S25

• AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $4.5M Series A and seed
  Feb 25 · TechCrunch Harper W25
• Autosana lands $3.2M to automate mobile and web UI testing with agentic AI
  Feb 17 · SiliconANGLE Autosana S25

• 8 early-stage AI companies to watch in 2026
  Jan 28 · Inc. Phosphor
• Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
  Jan 27 · TechCrunch Risotto W24
• Work hard, play hard is over: inside Silicon Valley's 996 culture
  Jan 22 · Forbes Phosphor
• How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES
  Jan 18 · TechCrunch Bucket Robotics S24
• GRU Space opens bookings for planned lunar hotel
  Jan 12 · Payload GRU Space W26
• Why ideas don't matter (according to a 2x YC founder turned investor)
  Jan 8 · Talks With Dasha Phosphor
• Startup insurer Corgi raises $108 million at $630 million valuation
  Jan 8 · Axios Corgi S24
• Unusual raises $3.6M round as first company to help brands change how AI talks about them
  Jan 6 · MarTech Series Unusual F24

• Anthropic's Claude AI can now operate a vending machine
  Dec 18 · WSJ Andon Labs W24
• Making Claude a better electrical engineer
  Dec 12 · Anthropic Diode S24
• Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing
  Nov 24 · TechCrunch Momentic W24
• A SLO County police department and the DA's office navigate the first stages of AI
  Nov 13 · New Times SLO Closure W25
• Sim raises Series A
  Nov 12 · Sim Sim P25
• Parahelp announced $18 million in Series A and $3.2 million in seed round
  Sep 12 · Menlo Times Parahelp S24
• This startup wants to harness quantum computing to make AI more affordable
  Aug 12 · Inc. Sygaldry P25
• AI circuit board startup Diode raises Series A from a16z
  Jul 23 · Business Insider Diode S24
• YC-backed Octolane raises seed to build the next AI Salesforce
  Apr 14 · Forbes Octolane W24
• YC grad Deepnight nabs $5.5M for AI night vision software that disrupts a multi-billion dollar industry
  Feb 27 · TechCrunch Deepnight W24