These 26-year-old founders quit their jobs and built a $200 million AI cyber startup
AI is writing more code than humans—and much of it isn’t secure. Corridor’s founders think they’ve found a way to catch the mistakes before attackers do.
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Today’s founder – she’s never coded but she’s building a business with AI
For years, Australia’s startup ecosystem has wrestled with a stubborn reality: if you weren’t technical, your odds of founding and funding a venture dropped dramatically. And because computer science classrooms have long skewed male, that technical barrier is one major aspect reinforcing the gender funding gap.
Ex-top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid
Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that move power to the grid more efficiently.
Vibe coding turned this Swedish AI unicorn into the fastest growing software startup ever
Stockholm-based Lovable has hit over $100 million in annualized revenue in just eight months by using AI to enable millions of non-coders to instantly turn their ideas into websites, apps and online side hustles.
Meet the startup that makes quitting cigarettes, vaping and Zyn cool
New York-based Jones just raised $10 million to expand its nicotine lozenge company in the stodgy, $3 billion smoking cessation market.
Forbes next billion-dollar startups list has accurately predicted 100+ unicorns in 10 years
Of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list’s 225 alumni, 131, or 58%, became unicorns, including DoorDash, Figma, Anduril, Benchling and Rippling. This year, the list is dominated by artificial intelligence.
Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt raised $150 million for household robot startup
Vogt, who resigned from the self-driving car company amid a crisis just six months ago, landed a $550 million valuation for a new company that wants to sell robots for personal uses like cleaning your house.
$10 billion productivity startup Notion wants to build your AI everything app
Notion co-founder Ivan Zhao captivated Silicon Valley investors and everyday consumers alike with a sleek productivity app that went so viral its servers crashed. Now, the profitable startup’s CEO sees a rare opening to break Microsoft and Google’s dominance in the workplace by going early and aggressive on AI.
Revenge of the bootstrapped startup
Founders Srinivas Njay and Bruce Kim bootstrapped interface.ai with $1 million of their own capital. Now the VCs are calling—but they’re waiting for the right partner.
Disney Channel actress launching space data startup
Bridgit Mendler, an actress and singer best known for her roles in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Lemonade Mouth,” is adding a CEO title to her resume with her satellite data startup Northwood Space.