Following intense backlash, startup accelerator Y Combinator quietly pulled a video from its X account demonstrating a new startup’s AI-powered worker monitoring software. The startup, called Optifye, ...

A typical investor in a venture firm receives roughly 5,000 pitches in a year, and reads about 700 of them. They only spend 3 minutes scanning each deck, and may fund a handful of startups or none at ...

A disclaimer about this newsletter’s title: I didn’t quite watch 243 one-minute startup pitches myself during Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week. I think I probably set a personal record for pitch ...

Artificial Societies has secured $5.35 million, including a $3.35 million round led by Point72 Ventures. The startup creates AI personas for product testing and brand propositions. We got an exclusive ...

Code Four uses AI to generate reports from bodycam footage. Here's the pitch deck the Y Combinator graduates used to raise their seed round. Two 19-year-old MIT dropouts have raised $2.7 million in ...