This 21-year-old founder cut open his leg to show off his biotech. Then he raised $4.3 million from Peter Thiel and others.

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Pilgrim founder Jake Adler posing with lab equipment wearing a black hoodie.
Pilgrim founder Jake Adler in his startup's lab in Redwood City, Calif.

Pilgrim

Southeast Asia's tech startups are chasing the American dream

Tech Insider : Business, Style
The American flag with a upwards stock arrow behind it being viewed through binoculars

OsakaWayne Studios/Getty, Anna Pogrebkova, Tyler Le/BI

Buzzy AI health startup Superpower is making another acquisition to power its food-as-medicine push

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Max Marchione, Jacob Peters, and Kevin Unkrich, the Superpower founding team.
Max Marchione, Jacob Peters (CEO), and Kevin Unkrich (CTO) are the cofounders of Superpower.

Superpower

This YC-backed startup wants to speed up US visa applications with AI. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $2.7 million.

Tech Insider : Business
Gale co-founders Rishabh Sambare, Rahul Gudise and Haokun Qin.
Gale cofounders Rishabh Sambare, Rahul Gudise, and Haokun Qin.

Gale

See the 12-slide pitch deck AI marketing-tech startup Octave used to raise a $5.5 million seed round from Bonfire and a LinkedIn alumni fund

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Zach Vidibor
Zach Vibidor cofounded Octave and just raised a seed funding round.

Zach Vidibor/Octave

I spoke with the CFOs of Vercel, Mercury, and Cribl about doing business in uncertain times

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From left to right: BI's Ben Bergman, Mercury's Dan Kang, Cribl's Zach Johnson and Vercel's Marten Abrahamsen.
From left to right: BI's Ben Bergman, Mercury's Dan Kang, Cribl's Zach Johnson and Vercel's Marten Abrahamsen.

Photo Courtesy of CRV, Tyler Mussetter

Legaltech startups have raised over $1 billion this year. Here are 10 companies to watch.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg; Luminance CEO Eleanore Lightbody; and Eudia CEO Omar Haroun.
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg, Luminance CEO Eleanore Lightbody, and Eudia CEO Omar Haroun.

Harvey; Luminance; Eudia

Meta's Llama AI team has been bleeding talent. Many top researchers have joined French AI startup Mistral.

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Timothee Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample Mistral AI.
Timothée Lacroix, Arthur Mensch, and Guillaume Lample are the co-founders of Mistral AI. Lacroix and Lample were two of the authors of Meta's original Llama paper.

Khanh Renaud/ABACAPRESS.COM

Jeffrey Katzenberg spent 45 years making movies. He says he's taken one key skill from Hollywood into investing.

Tech Insider : Business, Sports
jeffrey katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg oversaw the production of animation hits like "Shrek" and "Madagascar."

Will Burgess/Reuters

I mentor startups outside my Meta product job. I tell founders to take 3 steps to sell their AI vision.

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Mahesh Chayel
Mahesh Chayel, a product management lead at Meta, told BI the three steps founders need to take to sell their AI vision.

Mahesh Chayel

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