These 11 retail startups raised millions from VCs this year, from Gopuff to Stickerbox

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Stickerbox cofounders
Stickerbox is among the companies that raised the most money in 2025.

Stickerbox

I'm a 14-year-old founder whose YC application went viral. There are pros and cons to starting a company young.

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Alby Churven is pictured.
Alby Churven's Y Combinator application went viral on X.

Alby Churven

Nvidia's Groq deal rattled Silicon Valley. Here are 5 other AI startups split apart in Big Tech's new deals.

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Jonathan Ross Groq
Groq CEO and founder Jonathan Ross

Groq

Scribe raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion valuation to fix how companies adopt AI. Read its pitch deck.

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Jennifer Smith standing on the street, wearing a brown sweater and white pants with her hands in her pockets.
Scribe cofounder and CEO Jennifer Smith.

Scribe

How Y Combinator founders are pitching the AI boom

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Garry Tan is a top seed investor.
Garry Tan is a top seed investor.

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Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding.

The rise of the AI wingman

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A robot hand and a human hand fist-bumping.

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I cofounded my AI startup while on paternity leave. Here's how I balance work and being a dad.

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Outset founder Aaron Cannon is pictured
Aaron Cannon cofounded an AI startup that recently raised $30 million. He also picks up his 3-year-old every day from preschool.

Aaron Cannon

Read 46 pitch decks that creator-economy startups used to raise millions of dollars

Tech Insider : Business, Crypto, Economy
Dub
Dub, a fintech startup that lets people copy influencers' stock trades, raised a $30 million Series A round in 2025.

Dub

The SpaceX Mafia is here

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SpaceX

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2 former Hinge execs are building an app to make it easier to plan hangouts with your friends

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Sam Levy and Tim macgougan
Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan cofounded Rodeo, a new startup building an app for making plans with friends.

Rodeo

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