Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019.
Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog, which looked to provide more modern tools to higher-educational facilities, including those that work with state departments. He learned quickly that his peers didn’t like working with the public sector – too much bureaucracy.
Even finding out basic information, like…
Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence
October 23, 2025
Ask any salesperson how much information they’d like on a prospective customer and you’ll never hear the end of it. That’s the premise driving the crowded sales intelligence market, which today has services that can do everything from helping to identify…
Shuttle raises $6M to fix vibe-coding’s deployment problem
October 23, 2025
The promise of vibe coding was that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems like Lovable and Replit AI. But it turns out writing the code is just the first step in the process – and vibe coders are already running into the…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a statement Tuesday to “set the record straight” on the company’s alignment with the Trump administration’s AI policy, responding to what he called “a recent uptick in inaccurate claims about Anthropic’s policy stances.”
“Anthropic is built on a simple principle: AI should be a force for human progress, not…
For most enterprise companies, AI is either a promise that has yet to deliver or a security risk. The effort of Lithuania’s most famous entrepreneur duo to solve that conundrum has garnered attention – and funding.
Just months after Nexos.ai came out of stealth…
YC alum Cercli, an AI-powered Rippling for MENA, raises oversubscribed $12M Series A
October 22, 2025
In a region long defined by fragmented enterprise systems, outdated compliance tools, and HR software that rarely talks to finance, Cercli is building a unified alternative for MENA businesses with AI at its core.
The Dubai-based startup, founded by ex-Careem operators Akeed…
Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom generative AI models for enterprises
October 21, 2025
Creative design giant Adobe is beefing up the products it offers businesses to include custom generative AI models.
Adobe launched Adobe AI Foundry on Monday, a new offering that allows enterprises to work with the company to build custom generative AI models trained on their branding and intellectual property.
The Foundry’s custom models, which can produce text, images, video, and other…
Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London a few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai.
After nearly a decade in the U.S., including a stint at Scale AI, he’s bringing that experience to his next venture: 1001 AI , a company creating AI…
The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick
October 21, 2025
Lee Roberts meets me at the University Club of San Francisco on a Friday morning, hours before his football team will lose to Cal in heartbreaking fashion – a fumble at the goal line, because little about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.
2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple…
