Entrepreneurship
Preventive Health Startup Function Draws a Major Growth Round
Preventive health company Function just closed $450 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the Austin startup announced in late July. The company, valued at $2.5...
Venture Capital Funding Hits a Record High as AI Dominates
Global venture capital funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Crunchbase data published in early July. That single half-year total already tops...
New Business Applications Hit a Record Pace in 2026
The latest Census figures tell a story every founder should hear: new business applications are running at a record pace in 2026. Americans filed roughly 524,000 applications in June...
Startup Operations: 5 Decision Rules Founders Set Early
The founders drawing attention this summer are not the loudest ones, according to a July roundup of startup trends. They are the ones with disciplined startup operations, built on...
AI for Small Business: Pie Raises to Grow Main Street
New funding for ai for small business keeps arriving, and Pie just added a fresh round to expand its growth platform for Main Street. The startup raised $19.5 million...
AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Who Builds Software
New ai coding tools are reshaping who writes software and how fast, with GitHub now reporting roughly 180 million developers and about one new sign-up every second. Its latest...
Small Business Marketing in 2026: Why Posting Isn’t Winning
The 2026 marketing story is not that founders stopped posting, as this month’s social media marketing trends make clear. It is that posting stopped working on its own. Small...
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...
Physical 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...
Beyond 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...
