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Every founder story looks inevitable in hindsight. The garage, the first customer, the pivot that changed everything. But if you strip away the mythology, the founders who make it past the early years tend to share a handful of unglamorous habits. No...
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is taking on his old company. His startup, Entire, launched a GitHub alternative this week, replacing traditional pull requests with Trails, a review system that uses AI agents to evaluate code changes while developers...
Dylan Anderson was a software engineer at, in his words, "some random place in Minnesota." Then a friend-of-a-friend connection changed everything. A roommate of Adam's founders was asked if he knew any cracked engineers. Dylan's name came up. He did...
Max Friedlander was building voice agents for service businesses when a LinkedIn message changed his trajectory. Ian, one of the founders of Petrarch, reached out to pick his brain about voice AI data. Max told them the idea wouldn't work. They kept ...
David Mount has started four companies, served as CTO, watched funding dry up, and built a passion project about nuclear energy called Atomic Ambitions. When his previous startup, Chinchill.AI, ran out of money, he signed up on YC's Work at a Startup...
Before he ever wrote a line of code for a startup, Sherif Amer was designing embedded systems and verifying mixed-signal chips at Infineon. Then an unexpected layoff changed his trajectory. Rather than jumping back into semiconductors, he spent two a...
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from last week’s iss...
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board....
You built your reputation one conversation at a time. The question now is whether you can keep that up as more people show up asking for help....
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn’t managed to reverse the funding slowdown, a review of Crunchbase da...
GIS used to be a tool you needed a degree to use. On the Project Flux Podcast, GIS Cloud co-founder and CEO Dino Ravnic explains why AI is the final step in opening it up, and why the line between what AI does and what the GIS does matters more than ...
Building an app has gotten faster. Turning it into a successful business still takes work: understanding your customers, finding the right offer, testing what converts, and giving people a reason to stay....
The Eclipse Foundation, as a co-founder and committed maintainer of the OSPO Alliance, is thrilled to announce that the Open Source Good Governance Handbook is now available in Tamil!...
By Aneta Szostak-Silva, Co-Founder and Geospatial Engineer at FullWave Geoconsulting, Portugal. Aneta has contributed to national and regional LiDAR programs worldwide, with experience spanning production, quality assurance, and technical advisory. H...
DUBLIN — MCO (MyComplianceOffice), a leading provider of integrated compliance technology, has been named to the Financial Times Europe’s Long-Term Growth Champions 2027, marking the third consecutive year the company has earned a place on the presti...
True Blue Recruitment places tech talent in Bangkok. Its founder had built sourcing and BD tools in Claude, but JobAdder could not plug into them. Here is what changed when the firm moved to Spott, and why a shortlist now takes 20 minutes instead of a day.
More money, fewer rounds. That, in short, is the state of U.S. Series B startup funding in 2026, as venture capital investment continues to concentrate heavily around a handful of AI hotshots....
Global startups have closed at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more so far this year, Crunchbase reported in late September, and more than 70% of them went to AI companies. For most seed founders, that headline is a warning....
Pelagic Systems, a spin-out from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP), is commercializing software for real-time control, calibration, and characterization of quantum processors. Their platform addresses parameter instabilit...
SkyWater Technology has launched the OnRamp program, an open-access foundry initiative for quantum hardware startups, providing engineering support and manufacturing on 200 mm production lines. The program includes the SP90 silicon nitride platform, ...
Today, we're announcing a $150 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia.
