This morning, Vellum.ai said it had closed a $5 million seed round. The company declined to share who its lead investor was for the round apart from noting that it […]
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Back to news homeThe AI Boom Is Pulling Tech Entrepreneurs Back to San Francisco
Doug Fulop’s and Jessie Fischer’s lives in Bend, Ore., were idyllic. The couple moved there last year, working remotely in a 2,400-square-foot house surrounded by trees, with easy access to […]
Y Combinator-backed Luca aims to optimize retail prices at enterprise scale
Luca, a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator […]
YC’s latest batch sure was a lot of ‘maybe AI can do… this?’
Sitting through hundreds of startups on YC Demo Days, you’re not always sure whether you are actually perceiving patterns or if your brain, as coffee battles with monotony, is inventing […]
What if Scandinavian startups don’t need Y Combinator?
When The Exchange wrote about Sweden’s startup scene at the end of last month, we said we’d revisit the Nordics this week. Well, a promise is a promise. But after […]
Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1
Comics software, meat-based plants and Tesla spun-out heat pumps, anyone? Here’s a crazy statistic: More than half of the companies in Y Combinator’s latest cohort were accepted to the accelerator […]
Silicon Valley Bank’s Deep Ties to the Tech Industry
When Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile venture capital firms, wanted to build a bridge between two of its office buildings around 2005, it decided to take out a […]
Yellen says government trying to help Silicon Valley Bank depositors but dismisses bailout
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday that the U.S. government would not bail out Silicon Valley Bank, but is concerned about depositors reeling from what is the worst bank […]
Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M
Accord, a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. CEO […]
Bluedot’s debit card for EV owners offers cheaper charging, cash back
Electric vehicles accounted for nearly 6% of all new cars sold in the U.S. in 2022, an increase from 3.1% the year before, and that number will continue to grow […]