How to Build an AI-First Business System
An earlier article in this series made the case that AI alone won’t build a successful business — that access to AI tools has stopped being a competitive advantage, because everyone now has it. This article picks up where that one left off, and…
Why Investors Are Funding Startups That Want You to Use Your Phone Less
In a year when nearly every venture dollar has been chasing AI that keeps people online longer, a smaller and stranger category of startup has been quietly raising money to do the opposite: get people to put their phones down. It sounds like a bad…
Why Silicon Valley Still Struggles With Founder Age Bias
Ask someone to picture a tech founder, and the image that comes to mind is almost always the same: a 20-something coding in a dorm room, hoodie on, ready to disrupt an industry before turning 25. That image has quietly shaped who gets funded, who gets…
Why DIY Cyberdeck Computers Are Becoming Tech’s New Obsession
Not long ago, every laptop looked more or less the same: a slim black rectangle, a glowing logo, nothing to distinguish one machine from the next. That uniformity is exactly what a growing community of builders is now rejecting — by making their own…
Enterprise Software Startups Are Winning Investors Again After a Slow Year
Enterprise software spent the last couple of years in an uncomfortable position: still essential to how businesses run, but no longer the thing venture investors were most excited to fund. AI absorbed the spotlight, and enterprise software startups had…
The Biggest Startup Acquisitions This Week and What They Mean for the Tech Industry
This was a genuinely busy week for tech dealmaking, and the pattern across the announcements is more interesting than any single price tag. Buyers weren’t just acquiring revenue or customer lists — they were acquiring very specific capabilities…
Why DoorDash Is Building Its Own Drone Delivery Network Instead of Partnering
DoorDash just did something most companies in the autonomous delivery space haven’t: it built its own aircraft. On July 29, 2026, the company unveiled DoorDash Air, an in-house drone delivery operation, and confirmed it had received Part 135 air…
Nuclear fusion startups seek separate regulations from nuclear fission companies
Ask most people to picture nuclear energy, and they’ll picture the same thing: reactor cores, meltdown risk, decades of radioactive waste. That mental image is accurate for fission—but increasingly, fusion companies argue it has nothing to do with…
Government’s Semicon 2.0 to co-invest with VCs in Indian chip startups
India’s approach to funding its semiconductor ambitions is undergoing a significant shift. Under the newly approved Semicon 2.0 programme, the government is moving away from its traditional grant-based support model and adopting something that…
Inflexor Ventures announces first close of its ₹1,250 crore Fund III
India’s deeptech investing scene just got a meaningful capital injection. Inflexor Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital firm, has announced the first close of its third fund, the Inflexor Technology Discovery Fund, securing ₹400 crore…