'Something has genuinely shifted': Inside Europe's tech startup surge

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Lovable CEO Anton Osika is bullish on Europe.

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There's a new type of VC in Silicon Valley: the creator-investor

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Claire Zau wants to use her social media acumen to help Lightspeed get an edge with founders.

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Figure AI's CEO just raised $700 million for his next big bet

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Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock
Figure AI and Hark CEO Brett Adcock.

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Two brothers raised $12m for an OpenClaw competitor that a government official calls his 'second brain'

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Gavriel (L) and Lazer Cohen (R) launched NanoClaw while working for their PR agency.
Gavriel (L) and Lazer Cohen (R) launched NanoClaw while working for their PR agency.

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We asked top startup investors how they use AI. Here's what they said.

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Jeff Fluhr, Ann Miura Ko, and Sarah Smith.

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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says the AI boom is a dead ringer for the dot-com bubble

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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame is deeply skeptical of the AI boom.

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How Termina selected and ranked the 2026 Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists

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Jake Ellowitz
Jake Ellowitz

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Why the former Google executive who backed OpenAI and Anthropic wants to get people off their screens

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Bradley Horowitz

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The Seed 40: The best women early-stage investors of 2026

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Alexa von Tobel, Laura Rippy, Mathilde Collin, Aileen Lee, and Nisha Dua.

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The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2026

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Bryan Rosenblatt, Shan-Lyn Ma, Ravi Mhatre, Ann DeWitt, and Brandon Reeves.

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Business Insider's Seed 100 spotlights the early-stage investors with the rare knack for finding tomorrow's tech giants before the rest of the market knows they exist.

In the AI boom, the definition of "seed stage" has changed dramatically.

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