OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the multi-AI-model future is here.

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Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation

Stord was founded in 2015 by then-college students CEO Sean Henry and CTO Jacob Boudreau while they were still at Georgia Tech.

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI

Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.

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Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled annualized revenue in months to $10M, sources say

Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.

How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups 

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.