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Hello, and welcome to your weekly dose of Big Tech news and insights. I’m your host Alistair Barr. My dog Maisie is having surgery soon, so keep her in your thoughts.I recently met a friend for coffee, and he shared some surprising news. After working in cloud computing for roughly…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jenny Jing Zhu, 51, New Jersey-based founder and CEO of Lush Decor, a digital home decor company. She shared with Business Insider the challenges of starting a business in an uncertain time and how she overcame it. BI has verfied her…
2025-05-06T12:00:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Onebeat raised…
Vadim Fedotov first learned about visualizing success after a knee surgery at 23.In the early 2000s, Fedotov played power forward for the Buffalo Bulls, the University of Buffalo’s NCAA Division I basketball team. He worried about repeat injuries on the court — during an eight-year professional basketball career, he had…
Topgolf founders Steve and Dave Jolliffe have raised $34 million for a new take on the game of pool.A deal memo from one of the company’s lead investors reveals its strategy to stand out amid a slew of social sports concepts.The new venture, Poolhouse, plans to bring Topgolf’s recreational model…
The classroom is getting a tech upgrade with AI-powered teaching assistants.Kira Learning, an edtech startup chaired by Google Brain founder, Stanford professor, and AI researcher Andrew Ng has unveiled a new platform that brings AI agents to the classroom.Kira’s AI agents will carry out the repetitive tasks that often consume…
Reco, which uses generative AI and AI agents to provide businesses with an SaaS security platform, just raised more funding. The startup told Business Insider exclusively that it secured a $25 million Series A extension from Insight Partners, Zeev Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Redseed.The startup originally raised a…
For some tech founders, building a product so good it lasts forever might sound like the dream. Windsurf’s CEO and cofounder, Varun Mohan, wants his AI startup to regularly blow up its product.”We should be cannibalizing the existing state of our product every six to 12 months,” he said on…
When Sneha Sivakumar and Anushka Nijhawan met during their freshman year at Yale University, they immediately connected.”Generally at Yale, not every student there is trying to become a startup founder or entrepreneur, so we saw that fire in each other and connected over that,” Sivakumar told Business Insider.Five years later,…
Get ready for ads in your conversations with AI chatbots.Nexad, an adtech startup building a native advertising solution for AI apps, has raised $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by A16z Speedrun (an accelerator under the Andreessen Horowitz umbrella) and Prosus Ventures, and included participation from firms…
