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Binance bet on Greece for its EU licence and is now running out of time
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How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026 When the Easy Money Is Gone
How to raise a seed round is a question that looks very different in 2026 than it did three years ago. The easy money is gone, and most of the guides still circulating online describe a market that no longer exists. This piece covers the story, the d...
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Binance bet on Greece for its EU licence and is now running out of time
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Ripple bets on Flutterwave to make RLUSD the dollar layer for African payments
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France drops Palantir for a local rival and hands every civil servant a Mistral AI assistant
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Singapore bets on AI to crack the materials science bottleneck holding back semiconductors and clean hydrogen
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How to Read a Term Sheet Before You Sign Away Your Company
Most founders treat a term sheet like a formality. The clauses they skip past are the ones that determine who actually owns the outcome.Learning how to read a term sheet isn't optional if you want to negotiate one. Yet most first-time founders get a 15-page document from a VC, skim to the valuation number, and call their co-founder to celebrate. The number is the least interesting part. The terms ...
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Andreessen Horowitz bets $9 million that AI reliability is a category, not a feature
Plaud reached $250 million in recurring revenue without a single venture dollar and is now targeting $500 million in 2026 sales
Probably, a new startup founded by Peter Elias, raised a $9 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz to build a reliability layer for enterprise AI, combining a deterministic validator with full citations and audit trails to push accuracy toward the 99.99% standard common in deterministic software.
Plaud reached $250 million in recurring revenue without a single venture dollar and is now targeting $500 million in 2026 sales
Plaud, the China-founded AI notetaker startup behind the PLAUD Note recorder, has crossed $250 million in annual recurring revenue without a single venture dollar and is targeting $500 million in 2026 sales. Bloomberg confirmed the milestone on June 16. The company built a hardware-to-SaaS flywheel by converting device buyers into subscribers, growing 10x year over year for two consecutive years, and now faces its biggest test as Apple, Google, and Meta move into ambient AI capture.
Mobileye bets its sensor stack can make the leap from supplier to robotaxi operator
Mobileye announced on June 16, 2026 that it will build and operate its own US robotaxi fleet, shifting from autonomous-driving supplier to full-stack ...
Bland AI raised $40 million after 180 investors said voice would be dead in a year
Bland AI raised $40 million after 180 investors said voice would be dead in a year
Bond markets are absorbing $570 billion in AI debt and nobody knows if the revenue will arrive
Man Group and Morgan Stanley are both flagging the same concern: AI infrastructure debt is surging toward $570 billion in 2026, hyperscaler bonds now ...
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BlackRock lists the first major covered-call Bitcoin ETF on Nasdaq as Goldman Sachs races to catch up
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) listed on Nasdaq today, June 16, targeting 15 to 25% annual yield through covered calls on Bitcoin while aiming to capture at least 70% of BTC's upside at a 0.65% fee. The launch positions BlackRock ahead of Goldman Sachs, whose rival product targets a July 1 debut, in a race to capture yield-seeking institutional and retirement-account Bitcoin buyers.
Bitcoin rallies to $66,000 on the US-Iran peace deal, but the safe-haven story still doesn't hold up
Bitcoin rallies to $66,000 on the US-Iran peace deal, but the safe-haven story still doesn't hold up
Coinbase is betting its Base App can do what no crypto company has done before
Coinbase used its June 16 System Update event to reposition Base from developer infrastructure into a consumer super-app bundling trading, USDC payments, tokenized assets, and social features. With stablecoin legislation now law and COIN stock near highs, it's the company's clearest bet yet on becoming the dominant financial platform for the onchain era.
Stripe is quietly building the infrastructure that makes stablecoins unavoidable for global commerce
Stripe is expanding stablecoin payments to over 160 countries, partnering with Shopify to bring USDC settlement to millions of merchants, and reportedly joining Visa and Mastercard in a joint stablecoin platform. With $9 trillion in stablecoin payment volume processed in the past year, the infrastructure race has moved well beyond pilots.
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Databricks is closing in on Snowflake and the numbers make that case plainly
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Asia's chip stocks are beating Nvidia because the real AI bottleneck was never the GPU
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OpenAI is asking public investors to fund a company that loses three dollars for every dollar it earns
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STMicroelectronics raises $1.5 billion in convertible bonds as its AI photonics bet reshapes how the market sees the company
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Singapore's rapid move to block China-linked race-baiting posts reveals how easily multiracial societies can be targeted
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Fonda Matches Founders with the Right Opportunity Before They Build the Wrong Thing