The guy who built SpaceX’s engines has thoughts on its IPO. Tom Mueller was employee No.…
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SpaceX is about to make history—and 80% of VCs won’t see a dime of it
Hi, this is Amanda Gerut pinch writing for Allie Garfinkle from Aspen where we just wrapped…
Morpho raises $175 million in a round led by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital
Paul Frambot has a message for the “suits” at traditional financial institutions. “I think TradFi is…
Why Lightspeed and Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport bet $37 million on an AI-powered cyberattacker
Mock cyber attacks used to cost about $30,000, take two weeks, and tell companies what their…
Andreessen Horowitz and Forerunner are betting $55 million on Town’s deeply personal AI assistants
Jean-Denis Grézé’s AI assistant is a silver fox who wears a little satchel, and her name…
Anthropic’s confidential S-1 signals summer AI IPO race could heat up fast
Anthropic was open about its confidential S-1 filing on Monday. The $965 billion AI juggernaut announced…
Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones
Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the…
‘A pressure cooker ready to explode’: The wild secondaries scramble for Anthropic shares
The idiom “feeding frenzy” gained prominence in the mid-century, first primarily to describe the behavior of…
SpaceX’s IPO filing is full of surprises
On some level, that’s expected: Elon Musk (the world’s richest person) and his businesses have long…
Exclusive: Index Ventures backs Frame’s $50 million bet that employees are cybersecurity’s weakness
A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine received a text from our editor, or so…
Brian Schimpf has been quietly running Anduril since its earliest days. And once he’s talking, he has a lot to say
In 2017, Brian Schimpf was in the California desert with an engineering problem to solve. The…
The fruit fly cancer researcher who built his first prototype out of lollipop sticks and straws
Or perhaps those fruit flies are crowding a fermenting sourdough starter, or swarming a banana that’s…
Exclusive: Vanta hits $300 million ARR as ‘shadow AI’ explodes across corporate America
Most corporate employees in America have likely signed up for ChatGPT. And Claude. And possibly Cursor.…