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San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind

San Francisco real estate has never been very accessible. But the record sales happening right now in the city’s high-end market are testing the upper

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Ramp in talks to hit $40B+ valuation, 6 months after reaching $32B

Investors could not get enough of Ramp throughout 2025 and it looks like 2026 could be another banner year of fundraising for the corporate spend

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A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes into his first meeting with

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Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant

Marc Lore, the veteran e-commerce entrepreneur who sold his previous startups to Amazon and Walmart, has big plans to infuse AI into his current venture,

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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy said Monday it hopes to raise up to $1.3 billion in its initial public offering.  The company would be valued at

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Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI

Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s

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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down

Ask.com, the search engine and question-and-answer service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. Ask Jeeves first launched in 1996 and, with its focus

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Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went

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As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms

Apple reported a record quarter on Thursday. Yet outgoing CEO Tim Cook warned of some gathering storm clouds in the form of memory chip supply

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Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the