Leena Rao
US Tech Executive Editor at Business Insider
Technology reporter, foodie, fashion-obsessed, wife, mom, married to @suneel.
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businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Rebecca Torrence |Henry Blodget
Consumers increasingly want to take control of their health — including by taking control of what they eat. Buzzy AI startup Superpower just made its second acquisition of the year to capitalize on that interest. Superpower is building a health AI "super app" that combines biannual lab tests with users' health histories to create personalized lifestyle recommendations. The startup announced $30 million in Series A funding, led by Forerunner, just last month.
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businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Ashley Stewart |Henry Blodget
At Microsoft's Build developer conference last week, the company's head of AI security accidentally leaked details of its partnership with Walmart. The leak happened when employees protesting Microsoft's selling products and services to the Israeli military interrupted a presentation at the conference. The executive was streaming and switched over to a Teams message stating Walmart is ready to "rock and roll" on Microsoft services Entra Web and AI Gateway.
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businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Ben Bergman |Rebecca Torrence |Henry Blodget
Venture firms are normally in the business of backing high-flying tech startups, so many in the industry were scratching their heads when General Catalyst bought a chain of hospitals. The San Francisco-based firm spun out a separate healthcare unit, dubbed the Health Assurance Transformation Company or HATCo, in 2023 to buy Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health the following year.
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businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Ben Bergman |Henry Blodget
With a shaky IPO market, tariff uncertainty, and stock market jitters, these are not easy times to be the chief financial officer of a late-stage tech company. Against that precarious backdrop, I sat down last week with the CFOs of Mercury, Vercel, and Cribl at the San Francisco office of CRV, one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms and an early investor in all three startups.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Rebecca Torrence |Henry Blodget
Physical therapy company Hinge Health went public this week in a blockbuster move for the digital health market. Now, as a public company, Hinge Health is planning to keep investing heavily in AI to automate care delivery further. It's the first healthcare delivery startup to IPO in years — and for the first mover, it's setting a strong example.
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