Sunday, July 26, 2026
Startups
Daloopa Raises $47M to Make AI-Driven Investment Research Reliable and Auditable – AlleyWatch
As financial services firms move AI systems from pilot projects into live investment workflows, the quality of the data underneath...
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The founder who can’t sit through a quiet weekend without checking Slack often isn’t dedicated in the way it looks — many built a company partly to outrun the feeling that arrives when nothing is on fire
The founder who opens Slack at 9pm on a Saturday isn’t proving how committed they are. They’re keeping something at...
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A fake UK visa site has been leaking 100,000 passports and selfies for weeks, and the part nobody is talking about is why the operator has zero incentive to fix it
An unofficial website calling itself UK Visa Portal has exposed the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants, and the...
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ClickUp just laid off 22% of staff while deploying 3,000 AI agents and promising million-dollar salaries to survivors — and Gartner’s data quietly says the financial returns aren’t actually showing up
ClickUp has laid off 22% of its workforce while simultaneously deploying roughly 3,000 internal AI agents, with CEO Zeb Evans...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/1/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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Anthropic just closed a $65B round at a $965B valuation, and the cap table reveals something closer to industrial policy than a venture deal
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round on 28 May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, the company...
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The same week Waymo admitted its robotaxis can’t handle rain, SpaceX’s S-1 disclosed $506M flowing to Tesla and $1M to Boring Company — one firm is constrained by physics, the other by accounting
SpaceX’s S-1 filing this month disclosed that the rocket company purchased $506 million of Tesla’s Megapack commercial energy storage products...
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Wall Street is pricing a US-Iran peace deal that Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and the chair of Senate Armed Services spent Sunday publicly trying to kill
Brent crude fell roughly 4% on Sunday, the dollar index slipped, and S&P futures opened the week with a bid...
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OpenClaw Didn’t Replace My Developer – It Exposed How Little My Developer Was Actually Doing. So Where Are We?
There’s a particular kind of startup panic that kicks in when a tool meant for experimentation starts producing very real...
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A Google Cloud developer woke up to a $17,000 bill from API calls he never made, and the part that actually matters is what it reveals about how cloud platforms define their own security standards
The COO of Google Cloud spent part of last week telling executives that security cannot be bolted onto AI strategies...
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