Samantha Stokes

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VC giant Andreessen Horowitz's power move has spurred some niche drama at New York Tech Week

1 day ago | businessinsider.com | Nathan McAlone |Sydney Bradley |Samantha Stokes |Julia Hornstein

Venture capital juggernaut Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) pulled a power move at this year's Tech Week — and it's become the conference's most compelling niche drama. Tech Week, whose current iteration was started by A16z in 2022, returned to New York City this month with a full calendar of events just as the city started heating up for summer.
We Went to NYC Tech Week and Learned the City Is Ready to Be an AI Hub

2 days ago | businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Julia Hornstein |Samantha Stokes |Sydney Bradley

One of the clearest takeaways from New York's Andreessen Horowitz-sponsored Tech Week — a decentralized sprawl of happy hours with panoramic rooftop views, panels, and, this year, pickleball matches — was this: When it comes to building startups from AI to consumer to deep tech, New York is no longer playing catch up to attract startup interest. It might just be pulling ahead.
Pitchdeck sagt: „Schlaf ruhig, die KI machts“ - Investoren geben 18 Mio. €

2 days ago | businessinsider.de | Samantha Stokes

Ciroos Mitbegründer Amit Patel, CTO und VP of Engineering; Ronak Desai, CEO; und Ananda Rajagopal, Chief Product Officer.
Dieses Pitchdeck sagt: „Schlaf ruhig, die KI macht das“ – und Investoren geben 18 Millionen Euro | Flipboard

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Samantha Stokes

1 hour agoChatGPT-Alternativen: 5 KI-Modelle, die du kennen solltestKaum ein digitales Produkt hat binnen so kurzer Zeit so große Aufmerksamkeit erlangt wie ChatGPT. Mittlerweile ist jedoch ein regelrechter …1 hour agoWegen Trump: „Der Hamburger Hafen ist am Anschlag“Aufgrund der drohenden US-Zölle werden derzeit viele Lieferungen vorgezogen.
Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer Role Churns Out Startup Founders

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Samantha Stokes |Henry Blodget

Palantir, the government-focused software giant run by Alex Karp, has emerged as one of tech's biggest talent factories. One role in particular, the Forward Deployed Software Engineer, is churning out our startup founders. Many Palantir alumni-turned-founders got their start in the role at the company — like Trae Stephens and Matt Grimm, two members of defense tech giant Anduril's founding team.
Ciroos is building AI teammates that fix tech issues faster. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $21 million.

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Rosalie Chan |Samantha Stokes |Henry Blodget

A team of enterprise tech veterans just raised $21 million to introduce an AI fix to some of the most painful software engineering problems: middle-of-the-night outages and other critical system failures that require immediate attention. Ciroos, a new startup founded by former Cisco, Amazon Web Services, and Gigamon executives, just launched from stealth with its seed funding round, led by Energy Impact Partners.
These ex-Uber managers just raised $13 million to bring AI teammates to the workplace. Here's the pitch deck they used.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Rosalie Chan |Samantha Stokes |Henry Blodget

Your newest work colleague might not be joining you at the water cooler or at the team's next happy hour: AI agents are infiltrating the workplace, and one startup building those — aptly named Coworker — just cleared a big funding round to put "AI teammates" to work. Jeff Huber, managing director at Triatomic Capital, led Coworker's $13 million seed funding round, which was announced on Tuesday.
This fintech startup is building AI agents to be CFOs for small businesses

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Vishal Persaud |Samantha Stokes |Henry Blodget

One startup is betting that AI agents will become an invaluable tool for the country's 33 million small businesses, and it just raised a fresh round of funding to bring to life its vision for an "AI CFO."The fintech startup, Affiniti, just raised a $17 million Series A led by SignalFire, Business Insider has learned exclusively.
This fintech startup is building AI agents to be CFOs for small businesses

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Samantha Stokes

NowUS and China are already feuding again after unexpected trade truceHong Kong CNN — Just days after the United States and China declared a temporary truce over tariffs, tempers are already flaring: this time over the future of Beijing’s most advanced homegrown semiconductors. Over the past week, Beijing has repeatedly lashed out at Washington for warning companies …11 hours agoDid Trump really strike Gulf deals worth $2tn?
Gaurav Jain wrote the playbook for pre-seed investing. A decade later, he's running one of the industry's most prolific early-stage funds.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Samantha Stokes |Henry Blodget

For Gaurav Jain, there's no such thing as "too early" when it comes to making a VC investment. During the last decade, he's built a reputation as one of the most influential early-stage investors in venture capital: first at Founder Collective, and, since 2016, at Afore Capital, the fund he cofounded to make pre-seed investments at a time where rounds of at that size and dollar amount had a negative connotation in the industry.

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23 Apr 25

New for @businessinsider - Everything you need to know about Mira Murati, the former OpenAI CTO who's now raising $2 billion for her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab https://t.co/KkGBUOETTe

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27 Jan 25

RT @julia_hornstein: i’m @BusinessInsider covering vc/startups! investors and founders, say hi: [email protected] 👩‍💻📈

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10 Jan 25

RT @resolveai: Proud to be featured in the latest @BusinessInsider article spotlighting the transformative potential of AI agents in tech.…

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Articles

VC giant Andreessen Horowitz's power move has spurred some niche drama at New York Tech Week

We Went to NYC Tech Week and Learned the City Is Ready to Be an AI Hub

Pitchdeck sagt: „Schlaf ruhig, die KI machts“ - Investoren geben 18 Mio. €

Dieses Pitchdeck sagt: „Schlaf ruhig, die KI macht das“ – und Investoren geben 18 Millionen Euro | Flipboard

Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer Role Churns Out Startup Founders

Ciroos is building AI teammates that fix tech issues faster. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $21 million.

These ex-Uber managers just raised $13 million to bring AI teammates to the workplace. Here's the pitch deck they used.

This fintech startup is building AI agents to be CFOs for small businesses

This fintech startup is building AI agents to be CFOs for small businesses

Gaurav Jain wrote the playbook for pre-seed investing. A decade later, he's running one of the industry's most prolific early-stage funds.

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