Two Gen Z founders who raised $1.25 million for their AI startup share their pro tips for landing funding

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Aidan Guo and Julian Windeck
Attention Engineering cofounders, Aidan Guo, 19, and Julian Windeck, 23, say: Move to SF.

Attention Engineering

Two teen founders dropped out of school and raised $3 million out of Y Combinator. Read their pitch deck.

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Georges Casassovici and Mathieu Rihet, standing in front of a white wall with their arms crossed.
Novoflow cofounders Georges Casassovici and Mathieu Rihet.

Novoflow

NFL star Saquon Barkley jumps in alongside Nvidia to back AI data center startup Crusoe

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Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley jumps over a Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback.
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley jumps over a Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback.

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Kong CEO describes his early startup grind days, from living on $1,000 a month to sleeping on Travis Kalanick's couch

Tech Insider : Business
A composite image of Augusto Marietti and Travis Kalanick
A composite image of Augusto Marietti and Travis Kalanick

Courtesy of Kong; Paul Sakluma/AP

Nvidia backs $6 billion battery recycling giant in bid to power the AI boom

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Redwood Materials' campus in Nevada, with its new energy storage system on the left, a solar array in the center, and a Google data center on the far right.
Redwood Materials' campus in Nevada, with its new energy storage system on the left, a solar array in the center, and a Google data center on the far right.

Redwood Materials

Digital health's 'come to Jesus moment': Merge or die

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General Atlantic's Robb Vorhoff, Baird's Sasha Kelemen, and JPMorgan's Nick Richitt speak at a panel on M&A and IPOs at the HLTH conference Monday in Las Vegas.
General Atlantic's Robb Vorhoff, Baird's Sasha Kelemen, and JPMorgan's Nick Richitt said more healthcare startups are being forced to compromise as they consider mergers or markdowns in acquisitions.

Rebecca Torrence

Ultrawealthy families are pouring billions into private credit and real estate, but cutting back on early-stage startups

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy, Business
The moon rises behind the skyline of Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun sets in New York City on October 3, 2025.
The ultrawealthy are pulling back from risky startups and pouring billions into private credit and real estate, per Campden Wealth's 2025 report.

Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

'Girlboss' Sophia Amoruso says she was too quick to fire people at Nasty Gal. She shared what she learned from the startup's epic rise and fall.

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Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso
Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso.

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Amazon sees 'blind spot' in identifying new AI startups as future cloud customers

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
AWS CEO Matt Garman
AWS CEO Matt Garman

Noah Berger/Noah Berger

Startups should only get new hires when things start to break, Y Combinator partner says

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Travel
Y Combinator logo on a phone background
YC partner says that startups should not hire until they really need to.

Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

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