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DoorDash to acquire Instacart for $17B, less than half its $39B peak valuation
DoorDash has agreed to buy Instacart for approximately $17 billion, less than half of Instacart’s $39bn valuation in…
October 30, 2026
Wabi raises $55M from IVP at $1.25B: Can Replika’s founder out-run Meta’s Muse and Instinct?
Eugenia Kuyda launched IO in 2014, before the deep learning revolution that enables today’s language models. She described…
October 30, 2026
Kalshi nearly doubles to $40B in five months with $1B from Sequoia and Wellington
Kalshi, the first federally regulated U.S. prediction market exchange, reached a $40 billion valuation after a $1bn Series…
October 30, 2026
Collective raises $100M led by General Catalyst to run solo businesses’ taxes and payroll with AI
Hooman Radfar‘s parents both ran their own medical practices. When they split up, only his dad went the…
October 29, 2026
Crux Labs raises $6M+ to audit AI agents against human judgement
Most companies still manually review only 1% of their AI agent activity. Crux Labs, a New York-based startup,…
October 29, 2026
Fragment raises $56M from 8VC, General Catalyst and A* to put AI agents on procurement exceptions
Pranav Mulgund was exposed to supply chain early in his career, later worked as a physics researcher, and…
October 28, 2026
Spot.io founder’s Upwind raises $400M at $3.8B, six years after his $450M exit
Amiram Shachar sold his first company, Spot.io, to NetApp for $450 million in 2020. His second company, Upwind,…
October 28, 2026
AP Ventures closes $300M Fund III to back early-stage industrial and energy tech
Andrew Hinkly went into VC after a career in the auto industry, serving on Ford’s North American executive…
October 28, 2026
Disruptive launches $10B Flagship Fund for late-stage tech
Dallas-based Disruptive, founded in 2012 by Alex Davis, has launched the Disruptive Flagship Fund, a $10 billion fund…
October 28, 2026