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Yuliya Chernova

New York

Reporter @WSJ @WSJVC. Startups, VC, tech. Living it up in Brooklyn, the immigrant parts. [email protected]

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  • 2 days ago | wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova

    June 25, 2025 5:30 am ET|WSJ ProStartup OpenRouter has raised $40 million in venture funding to help software developers overwhelmed by the growing number of artificial-intelligence models. “There’s been a Cambrian explosion of models,” said Alex Atallah, OpenRouter’s chief executive and co-founder, who previously co-founded OpenSea, an online marketplace for nonfungible tokens. “Our business is a one-stop shop for all models,” he said. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

  • 2 days ago | flipboard.com | Yuliya Chernova

    2 hours agoWhy America's giant bunker-busting bombs may have failed to reach their targetThe infographics were everywhere in the run-up to Sunday's early-morning strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by American stealth bombers. They depicted America's bunker-busting bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or GBU-57.

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova

    Tel Aviv, one of the top global startup hubs, has been a regular target of Iranian missiles. Israeli entrepreneurs and venture investors say the heavy fire has made business travel impossible and affected productivity for some employees. Some foreign investors are hesitating on deals. For the most part, however, business is carrying on. Get more details:

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Yuliya Chernova

    Explosions in Tel Aviv have hit homes of startup employees, but business is largely uninterruptedOn Friday, Ron Reiter’s apartment building in Tel Aviv suffered a direct hit by an Iranian ballistic missile. The high-rise was just a five-minute walk from the new office of Sentra, a data-security startup where Reiter is a co-founder and chief technology officer. He was excited about that proximity last week during the office move-in.

  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | James Rundle |Yuliya Chernova

    The escalating conflict between Iran and Israel has cyber experts concerned that cyberattacks could spill over into places conventional weapons never would. Iran has been a significant cyber threat for years. The U.S. has said hackers linked to the country have broken into critical infrastructure systems in Israel and other Middle Eastern and Western nations. It is considered one of the major cyber adversaries of the U.S., alongside Russia, China and North Korea.

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Yuliya Chernova
Yuliya Chernova @ychernova
8 May 25

Stopped by @mattturck ‘s #DataDrivenNYC. Matt: Have you seen cases where companies aren’t hiring because of AI tools? @gsivulka: I think we are running out of time... (A few minutes ago he was talking about infinite “AI employees”)

Yuliya Chernova
Yuliya Chernova @ychernova
16 Apr 25

Venture deal activity dropped 24% last week compared with the average for the prior 13 weeks, according to CB Insights, suggesting a fast reaction to macroeconomic changes https://t.co/vieqTI04ow via @WSJ

Yuliya Chernova
Yuliya Chernova @ychernova
26 Mar 25

Scoop: Brian O’Malley, a former managing partner at venture firm Forerunner, is looking to raise a $100 million fund for consumer deals, a sector that has fallen out of favor with VCs https://t.co/aTMKT2RiSw