Former Benchmark Investors Lazarte And Fredrickson Aim Big WIth $800 Million AI Fund

A former Benchmark partner and Coatue investor launched solo funds within the past year. Now they’re telling backers they want to team up on a new vehicle they’ll co-manage.

The Protein Industrial Complex Is Here. Fiber Wants In.

The age of the “Protein Industrial Complex” is upon is. But another conversation has begun gaining momentum — centered on fiber and the gut microbiome.

The CEO AI Confidence Gap Is Costing Enterprises Billions

CEOs are falling for AI demos while employees inherit the broken workflows. Box CEO Aaron Levie explains why executive distance from last-mile work is the real reason enterprise AI agents fail, and what investors should watch instead.

AI Automation Creates More Expert Work Not Less

AI doesn’t replace expert knowledge workers – it multiplies demand for them. The self-reinforcing cycle behind the paradox: AI trains on recorded human competence, making rare skills cheap and widely available. That floods the market with same-looking …

You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it. 

Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup withou…

Benedict Evans Says AI Capex Is Eating The World And Investors Still Have No Map

Benedict Evans says AI’s biggest investors can’t explain where the money goes – and the data backs him up. Breaking down the 2025 “AI Eats the World” presentation: $400B in annual capex, no product moats, and a consumer engagement gap that should worry…

Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.

“There’s a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it’s easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?”

AI Turns Solo Workers Into Departments And VCs Are Paying Attention

AI is eliminating the coordination costs that made management necessary. Here’s what that means for talent strategy, org design, and where smart capital is flowing.

This $250 Million Startup Tracks How Cancer Reacts To Treatment In Real Time

NVision raises $38 million led by health diagnostics giant Abbott to scale up its groundbreaking cancer imaging system. Next up: using its quantum technology to design new drugs.

Billions In Prescriptions Go Unfilled. This Startup Is Using AI To Fix That.

Forus reached $1 billion valuation by dealing with the unglamorous admin work of processing scrips so patients can get the drugs they need.