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Julian Lim

Julian Lim is an entrepreneur, technology writer, and a researcher. He started JL Data Analysis after graduating from NUS in Intelligent Systems. Julian writes about technology innovations and entrepreneurship on Business Times, Asia Pacific Magazine and occasionally contributes to Startup Fortune.
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Musely raises $360 million without giving up equity and shows how consumer startups are rewriting the funding playbook
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Musely raises $360 million without giving up equity and shows how consumer startups are rewriting the funding playbook
Musely has closed more than $360 million in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to fuel customer acquisition across its telemedicine services. The deal highlights a growing shift in how consumer startups fund growth, using predictable customer lifetime value as collateral instead of giving up equity in a tough venture and IPO market.
Fermi is a cautionary tale about betting on narrative momentum instead of doing the hard work of closing customers
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Fermi is a cautionary tale about betting on narrative momentum instead of doing the hard work of closing customers
Bloomberg reported on May 1, 2026 that Fermi, the nuclear-powered AI data center startup planning a Texas facility, has zero signed clients despite actively pitching hyperscalers, and its former CEO is now publicly contesting the company's direction. An examination of the deals that have succeeded in the AI power infrastructure space reveals the specific credentials Fermi lacks: an existing or near-term-deliverable power asset, organizational stability, and enterprise sales experience capable of
Crypto Twitter turns on Ansem after his Solana exit story collides with a 60 percent price collapse
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Crypto Twitter turns on Ansem after his Solana exit story collides with a 60 percent price collapse
Crypto trader Ansem faced widespread mockery on X after claiming he sold his Solana holdings at a favorable moment, with critics demanding on-chain proof of a 2020 entry as SOL dropped more than 60 percent from highs near $260 over seven consecutive red monthly candles. Defenders circulated a January 2025 thread showing a 13x gain from a $20 entry, but the verification gap between that evidence and the claimed timeline kept the controversy alive. The episode highlights crypto's growing demand fo
Nebius acquires Eigen AI for $643 million as the inference bottleneck becomes the new GPU war
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Nebius acquires Eigen AI for $643 million as the inference bottleneck becomes the new GPU war
Nebius has agreed to acquire inference and model optimization company Eigen AI in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $643 million. The acquisition brings MIT HAN Lab-rooted research talent into Nebius's managed inference platform, Token Factory, as AI cloud providers shift focus from GPU access to serving efficiency. It marks a broader turning point in AI infrastructure competition, where optimization expertise is now being valued at scale.
Gold is holding near $3,300 but the forces pulling it in opposite directions are getting harder to ignore
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Gold is holding near $3,300 but the forces pulling it in opposite directions are getting harder to ignore
Spot gold is trading around $3,300 per ounce and heading for a weekly loss of roughly 2%, as oil-driven inflation concerns keep pressure on the metal by supporting the case for elevated interest rates, which raise the opportunity cost of holding a non-yielding asset. The pullback is structurally different from earlier 2026 corrections, which were largely profit-taking events, because this one is driven by a macro variable affecting gold's fundamental appeal rather than just trader positioning. W
Beacon Biosignals is turning sleep into a clinical data platform for the most underfunded frontier in medicine
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Beacon Biosignals is turning sleep into a clinical data platform for the most underfunded frontier in medicine
Beacon Biosignals, founded by MIT researchers Jake Donoghue and Jarrett Revels, uses a lightweight FDA-cleared EEG headband to collect brain activity data during normal sleep, applying machine learning to support drug development, diagnostics, and clinical trial recruitment across more than 40 trials in conditions including Alzheimer's, depression, and Parkinson's. The company is positioning sleep data not as a consumer wellness product but as longitudinal brain health infrastructure for the pha
April 2026 was crypto's worst month for hacks on record and the industry cannot afford to look away
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April 2026 was crypto's worst month for hacks on record and the industry cannot afford to look away
April 2026 has become the most exploited month in crypto history by incident count, with 28 to 30 attacks draining more than $625 million, led by major losses at Drift Protocol and KelpDAO. TRM Labs data shows North Korean-linked hackers accounted for approximately 76 percent of all crypto theft losses in 2026 so far, revealing a professionalized, state-backed threat at the center of the crisis. The record raises serious questions about whether blockchain security infrastructure is keeping pace
The Tether loan inquiry is the moment stablecoin politics became a national finance problem
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The Tether loan inquiry is the moment stablecoin politics became a national finance problem
Democratic senators are demanding documents about a loan between Tether and a trust benefiting Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's children, at the same time Lutnick's former firm Cantor Fitzgerald manages portions of Tether's reserves. The inquiry transforms a political ethics question into a serious governance problem for the world's largest stablecoin at precisely the moment Congress is debating stablecoin regulation.
Anthropic Is Embedding Claude Inside Creative Software
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Anthropic Is Embedding Claude Inside Creative Software
Anthropic's nine Claude connectors embed the AI into Adobe, Blender, Ableton, and more. This positions Claude as workflow infrastructure, reshaping competition around embedded control.
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