Posts by Liam Redmond
Supply Chain Automation Draws $11M as AI Enters the Back Office
London startup Intropy has raised $11 million in seed funding to push supply chain automation into one of the least glamorous corners of business, spare parts. Felix Capital led the round on July 30, with Quiet Capital, General Catalyst, and firstminute Capital joining. The company sells an AI system that plugs into a manufacturer’s core…
Read MorePhysical AI: Kalanick’s Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion
One of tech’s most divisive founders just staged a massive return, as Travis Kalanick’s Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz is joining the board, and Uber, the company that ousted Kalanick in 2017, joined the round too. This is a physical AI story with a second-act twist. Atoms wants to point…
Read MoreBeyond the Cap Table: How Young Founders Can Build Lasting Financial Transparency
Initially, when founders under the age of 30 start a business, most conversations revolve around finding the right product-market fit, aggressive growth strategies, and how to pitch to secure funding for their startups. When 2 or more founders are in the same room, surrounded by half-empty coffee cups, the conversation tends to steer away from…
Read MoreFed Interest Rate Decision: Rates Hold, Hikes Loom
The central bank held steady again, as the July Fed interest rate decision kept the benchmark rate in a range of 3.5% to 3.75% on July 29. Policymakers voted 9 to 3 to leave rates unchanged, with three regional presidents pushing for a different path. For founders, a hold sounds like calm. Yet the split…
Read MoreAI Automation for Small Business: The Outcome Model
A small logistics startup just drew fresh capital for a big idea, as a July 27 funding roundup detailed Freight Hero’s $5 million seed round led by Field Ventures. The company uses AI agents plus human operators to run a freight broker’s back office end to end, from rate confirmation through proof of delivery. The…
Read MoreExplainable AI Reaches Small Businesses in Seekr Deal
Enterprise-grade AI is heading downmarket after Seekr and OneValley announced a partnership on July 28 to bring explainable AI to startups and small businesses. OneValley, a platform that supports more than 10,000 founders, will resell and manage Seekr’s AI tools for smaller firms. The pitch is narrow but timely. It targets founders in regulated fields…
Read MoreSmall Business Grants: Simply Business Names 2026 Winners
Five founders just landed direct funding after Sky’s the Limit and Simply Business named the 2026 winners of their Big Dreams Grant on July 29. The two partners sorted through over 6,500 applications before choosing five recipients and 20 finalists from across the country. Running a young company is hard, and free money is rare.…
Read MoreHair recovered at Nancy Guthrie’s home didn’t produce suspect DNA profile: sheriff
A hair sample retrieved from Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home did not yield a DNA profile of a possible suspect, the sheriff leading the case revealed on Thursday. Embattled Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos announced the latest setback as the investigation into the 84-year-old’s kidnapping nears the six-month mark. “Yes, there was a hair. We had…
Read MoreRise and fall of Situational Awareness: How Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund stumbled
Sharp selloff in AI-related stocks has forced the fund to exit many of its positions Published Fri, Jul 31, 2026 · 11:21 AM LEOPOLD Aschenbrenner is the founder of Situational Awareness, an artificial intelligence-focused hedge fund that on Thursday (Jul 30) sold a chunk of its AI-related public equities and saw its assets slump sharply.…
Read MoreTyler Allgeier happy to share Cardinals’ running back load with Jeremiyah Love
Cardinals running back Tyler Allgeier says it’s all love with rookie Jeremiyah Love. A month after Allgeier signed a two-year, $12.25 million deal with Arizona to become their starting running back, the Cardinals took Love with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. “There’s no point in being, I guess, a jerk…
Read MoreCitadel buys most of hedge fund Situational Awareness’ stock holdings after AI share rout: sources
Situational held positions in several prominent tech names including Broadcom, Intel and CoreWeave Published Fri, Jul 31, 2026 · 10:35 AM [NEW YORK] Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel after being battered by heavy losses in its…
Read MoreJardine stocks rally: JC&C rises 7.6% on special dividend, JMH up 3.6%
[SINGAPORE] Shares of Jardine Matheson Holdings (JMH) rose as much as 3.6 per cent on Friday (Jul 31) morning. This was on the back of its 9 per cent growth in underlying profit for the first half ended Jun 30 to US$735 million, from US$676 million in the previous corresponding period. The counter rose US$2.41…
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