Mary Ann Azevedo is a Freelance Reporter at Crunchbase News, This Week in Fintech, and American Banker. With over 20 years of experience in business reporting, she covers a range of topics including technology, finance, financial technology, and artificial intelligence, often focusing on entrepreneurship and startups. Mary Ann's work has been featured in notable publications such as TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, and RealClearMarkets.
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By: Mary Ann Azevedo
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Docter also discussed how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn't believe the business model is headed for extinction. He also shared why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from the losers among AI startups, and more.
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For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data.
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Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and several other investors also participated in the financing. The round brings Throne’s total funding to nearly $18 million since its 2023 inception. The startup was founded in 2023 by CEO Scott Hickle, who previously worked for nearly a decade in software product management at various companies, and former Whoop co-founder and CTO John Capodilupo, for
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Enterprise AI startup Freehand has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to scale its autonomous AI agents, which manage complex supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprise companies.
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Centralize co-founders Rachit Kataria (left) and William Wang. [courtesy photo] Y Combinator 20 Sales
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Crunchbase News talks with former NEA partner Vanessa Larco about how she evaluates startups based on founder potential rather than initial ideas and how she looks for teams that leverage AI to make products dramatically faster, cheaper, or easier to use.
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Amid soaring energy demand from AI data centers, Antora says it will use its new capital to speed up deployment of “large-scale” projects across the country.
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We speak with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy about why AI is pushing the firm toward larger deals, what it has learned from its Anthropic relationship, and where he sees the next big opportunities.
For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. The quarter also marked the busiest one for General Catalyst since 2021 in terms of investing in rounds of $5 million or above.
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Ambrish Tyagi spent over three years leading AI teams at self-driving car company Cruise . Before that, he spent eight years working as an AI lead
