Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage

Port offers a proprietary alternative to Spotify’s popular devtool catalog Backstage, but with a valuable addition: it can be used to manage AI agents, too.

Eclipse Energy’s microbes can turn idle oil wells into hydrogen factories

The biotech startup is betting that owners of abandoned oil wells will use the tech to squeeze energy out of their wells.

Interest in Spoor’s bird monitoring AI software is soaring

Spoor’s computer vision software can help wind farms, and other industries, track bird populations and migration patterns.

Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren’t)

Venture capitalists Ross Fubini (XYZ Ventures) and Leslie Feinzaig (Graham & Walker Ventures) pull back the curtain on how VCs build their own go-to-market strategies — not just how they evaluate startups, but also how they win over LPs and founders alike. In this episode of Build Mode, they share hard-won lessons from raising their first funds and how that experience allows… Continua a leggere Capital is a commodity (but your investor relationships aren’t)

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages

By adding AI-powered article overviews, Google says users will get more context before they click through to read an article.

ElevenLabs just hit a $6.6B valuation. Its CEO says the real money isn’t in voice anymore.

ElevenLabs has made a name for itself building realistic AI voices.   What started as two Polish engineers annoyed by terrible movie dubbing has grown into a profitable company now valued at $6.6 billion, doubling from just nine months ago. The company recently announced a $100 million tender offer led by Sequoia and ICONIQ, with participation from a16z… Continua a leggere ElevenLabs just hit a $6.6B valuation. Its CEO says the real money isn’t in voice anymore.

ElevenLabs just hit a $6.6B valuation. Its CEO says the real money isn’t in voice anymore.

ElevenLabs has made a name for itself building realistic AI voices.   What started as two Polish engineers annoyed by terrible movie dubbing has grown into a profitable company now valued at $6.6 billion, doubling from just nine months ago. The company recently announced a $100 million tender offer led by Sequoia and ICONIQ, with participation from a16z… Continua a leggere ElevenLabs just hit a $6.6B valuation. Its CEO says the real money isn’t in voice anymore.

ChatGPT is Apple’s most downloaded app of 2025 in the US

This is ChatGPT’s first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.

Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course-generation platform

Oboe has raised $16 million in funding for its learning app. The company now lets users generate unlimited courses for free.

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools

Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.