Kia Kokalitcheva

2 weeks ago | share.google | Jacob E. Robbins |Kia Kokalitcheva

Nearly half of the startups in Y Combinator‘s first-ever Spring cohort were companies building or designing tools to create AI agents, continuing the famed accelerator’s tendency to reflect the broader startup market’s trends. Of the 144 startups in the Spring 2025 batch, 67 are described as “AI agents” within the accelerator’s online database. That’s an uptick from YC’s last cohort, when 58 out of the 163 startups featured in its Winter 2025 batch were AI agent companies.

2 weeks ago | pitchbook.com | Jacob E. Robbins |Kia Kokalitcheva

Nearly half of the startups in Y Combinator‘s first-ever Spring cohort were companies building or designing tools to create AI agents, continuing the famed accelerator’s tendency to reflect the broader startup market’s trends. Of the 144 startups in the Spring 2025 batch, 67 are described as “AI agents” within the accelerator’s online database. That’s an uptick from YC’s last cohort, when 58 out of the 163 startups featured in its Winter 2025 batch were AI agent companies.

3 weeks ago | pitchbook.com | Kia Kokalitcheva |Jacob E. Robbins

Venture capital is having an identity reckoning in the age of AI, and deep self-reflection was on full display last week at the Web Summit conference in Vancouver. “For about 10 years, any idiot with a checkbook in our job looked like a genius,” Zach Coelius, founder and GP at Coelius Capital said during a panel.

1 month ago | pitchbook.com | Kia Kokalitcheva

For the third year, GIC’s annual tech innovation summit in San Francisco has been all about AI. And yet, tech investment chief Chris Emanuel admits that he’s been truly surprised by how quickly the technology has advanced over that time. As the AI boom continues, the involvement of deep-pocketed institutional investors like Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, through its venture growth equity arm, will undoubtedly help keep some of these companies well-capitalized.

2 months ago | pitchbook.com | Kia Kokalitcheva

Some publicly traded companies including Tesla and Dropbox have packed up and moved their legal homes from Delaware to Texas or Nevada, but the growing interest in relocating hasn’t turned into significant action among startups—yet. The country’s second-smallest state has been the default corporate domicile for decades thanks to its robust body of business case law, experienced and specialized judges, and highly flexible corporate statutes.