Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition
## Episode Summary
In this episode, we cover:
- **Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/foursquare-co-founder-says-equity-holders-saw-no-returns-from-the-companys-acquisition/)
- **Nvidia is pitching AI factories, but 81% of companies say their GPUs run at half capacity or less** (VentureBeat)
- [Read more](https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/nvidia-is-pitching-ai-factories-but-81-of-companies-say-their-gpus-run-at-half-capacity-or-less)
- **The secret to fast startup growth isn’t early sales, top names in tech say** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/the-secret-to-fast-startup-growth-isnt-early-sales-top-names-in-tech-say/)
- **Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/ben-lamm-raises-200m-for-warhound-to-engineer-war-dogs-and-arm-them-with-anduril-gear/)
- **Superorganism raises $25M to back biodiversity startups** (TechCrunch Fundraising)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/superorganism-raises-25m-to-back-biodiversity-startups/)
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*Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
22 Oct 2026
The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.
## Episode Summary
In this episode, we cover:
- **The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.** (Crunchbase News)
- [Read more](https://news.crunchbase.com/public/ai-ipo-wave-anthropic-openai-delay-gurtu-airrived/)
- **Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/legal-ai-startup-legora-raises-550m-series-e-at-8-8b-valuation/)
- **Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/blacksmith-hits-unicorn-valuation-after-sequoia-leads-series-c/)
- **TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know ** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/techcrunch-founder-summit-2026-everything-you-need-to-know/)
- **A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B** (TechCrunch Fundraising)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/a-year-after-filing-to-ipo-still-private-cerebras-systems-raises-1-1b/)
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*Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
17 Oct 2026
An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
## Episode Summary
In this episode, we cover:
- **An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet** (TechCrunch Venture)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/video/a-nvidia-insider-turned-vc-on-why-robotics-hasnt-hit-its-chatgpt-moment-yet/)
- **NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers** (TechCrunch Fundraising)
- [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/neologic-wants-to-build-more-energy-efficient-cpus-for-ai-data-centers/)
- ** Up to 60% of GPU compute goes to recomputing context. Flash storage can put that capacity back to work** (VentureBeat)
- [Read more](https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/up-to-60-of-gpu-compute-goes-to-recomputing-context-flash-storage-can-put-that-capacity-back-to-work)
- **The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup Batch** (Crunchbase News)
- [Read more](https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-funding-rounds-investors-scaled-back-ai-biotech-modal/)
- **17 of 40 teams that say they enforce AI agent permissions still share the credentials behind them** (VentureBeat)
- [Read more](https://venturebeat.com/security/17-of-40-teams-that-say-they-enforce-ai-agent-permissions-still-share-the-credentials-behind-them)
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*Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
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