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July 28, 2025 Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.
A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.

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8 min
July 28, 2025 Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more
It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives. Also, iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle has hardly any cash left.

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8 min
July 25, 2025 SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI
LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, along with existing investor World Innovation Lab (WiL), and new investors Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

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6 min
July 25, 2025 Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel
All-electric truck fleet startup Nevoya has landed a fresh round of capital and plans to expand.

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7 min
July 24, 2025 Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone
DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection. In other news, less than a week after becoming Europe’s latest unicorn, Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable has now crossed the $100 million annual recurring revenue mark.

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7 min
July 24, 2025 Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup
RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here's the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund's money.

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5 min
July 23, 2025 This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents
Startup Mixus has built an AI agent platform that not only keeps humans in the workflow, but also allows those humans to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack.

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7 min
July 23, 2025 Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
Cursor-maker Anysphere is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in an effort to compete with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

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7 min
July 22, 2025 The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions
Tiffany Luck, a partner at NEA, outlined what she looks for in a pitch, during a presentation at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston.

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5 min
July 22, 2025 After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering
Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday the closure of her award-winning beauty startup Ami Colé.

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4 min