Thursday, May 21, 2026
Startups
The 18 Largest US Funding Rounds of April 2026 – AlleyWatch
April 2026 opened with a statement. A single $10B round to Project Prometheus – Jeff Bezos’s AI company targeting the...
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The freedom of not chasing
There was a Tuesday in Dublin, sometime in my early twenties, when I watched a senior colleague walk back from...
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AI Gets Expensive Long Before It Gets Useful
One of the biggest surprises for teams building with AI is not that it works. It is how quickly it...
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Insider One Acquires Bluecore to Strengthen Agentic Customer Engagement Platform – AlleyWatch
Insider One, an agentic customer engagement platform, has acquired Bluecore, a retail martech unicorn serving more than 400 US enterprise...
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Your AI Stack Is Already Obsolete. Here’s What Actually Runs Startups in 2026
Three years ago, startup founders loved showing off their AI stack like it was a trophy shelf. A writing tool...
Read moreDetailsWhy Startups Stall After Early Traction: The Positioning Trap
There’s a specific, quiet kind of panic that sets in for a founder when the early adopter surge begins to...
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Courier Health Raises $50M to Keep More Specialty Therapy Patients on Their Medications – AlleyWatch
The life sciences industry continues to generate breakthrough specialty therapies, but the patient support infrastructure connecting those medicines to the...
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Research suggests the problem with using AI as a therapist isn’t that it sounds wrong — it’s that it can sound right while still crossing serious ethical lines
A recent study summarized in a ScienceDaily report found that even when large language models were explicitly instructed to act...
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The psychology of the spotlight effect and how it has helped me care less about small social mistakes nobody else even noticed
In a 2000 study by Gilovich, Medvec, and Savitsky, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, participants were...
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Behavioral science suggests that responding well to education and opportunity may itself be a partly inherited trait — not just a product of good parenting
A new study from Lund University, tracking roughly 880 twins from the German TwinLife project, reports that between 69 and...
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