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Every Founders issue

86 issues since 26 May 2026, newest first. Each one is the day's Founders news, with links to the original sources.

August 2026

• Thu 27 AugNvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face bet; Instinct's privacy price
• Wed 26 AugFounders are running from their AI agents
• Tue 25 AugDrones weighing less than cargo, and the irony of AI agents
• Mon 24 AugSolo founder $80M exit, DOE $500M battery lifeline
• Sun 23 AugAI agent tried to poison open-source code, then lied about it
• Sat 22 AugServiceTitan vs Podium and the 100x truth
• Fri 21 AugCIA funded NeXT, Castelion raises $1B
• Thu 20 AugRillet hits $1B in 2 years, Kalanick raises $1.7B for Atoms
• Wed 19 AugDOJ probes a16z, Etched valuation doubles
• Tue 18 AugGrowth VCs hunt for emerging winners as Relay founder joins Chrome AI
• Mon 17 AugStripe buys OpenRouter for $7B, YC's edge fades
• Sun 16 AugSpaceX buys Cursor, fusion hits $7.1B, Gamma's $100M lesson
• Sat 15 AugKushner warns on AI hype, Gomez sued for $1.2M
• Fri 14 AugOpenAI hires CRO for IPO as Writer undercuts enterprise AI
• Thu 13 AugVideoVerse $250M fraud, Cognition $40B, Lovable $500M
• Wed 12 AugNvidia lends to AI startups, River hits $1.1B, EU space fund debuts
• Tue 11 AugSeries A revenue targets hit $2M as $1M ARR loses its edge
• Mon 10 AugSource Foundry gets $400M lifeline as founders seed-strap
• Sun 9 AugOpenAI folds NextSlide, SpaceX snubs Tesla solar
• Sat 8 AugSeed investors skip follow-ons: not bad news
• Fri 7 AugMeta's $300M AGI play, Hadrian's $1.37B military factory
• Thu 6 AugAirtable's $2.25B sale, Lightspeed's Instagram star, Moove's $250M
• Wed 5 AugGwern's AI startup: Guardian Angel; Waymo in Dallas
• Tue 4 AugFounders: SPV funding risks, 90-day option trap, and the AI exec gap
• Mon 3 AugAlibaba's 2.4T-param model claims parity; Malaysia revokes Network School
• Sun 2 AugUber’s 30+ AV Deals, VC Fraud Study
• Sat 1 AugIndex $3.5B, Domo $400M, Procore profit

July 2026

• Fri 31 JulSimile's $200M Series B, Nscale's $1.65B Anyscale, Amazon's $173B bet
• Thu 30 JulEncore AI raises $30M to turn calls into sales agents
• Wed 29 JulFish Audio $52M seed on $21M ARR
• Tue 28 JulAntares $470M Air Force play, Daybreak hunts StarCraft founders
• Mon 27 Jul5 deals gobbled 40% of Q4's $75B
• Sun 26 JulCollect 100% MRR cash, AI playbook, Claude Opus 5 halves cost
• Sat 25 JulAnduril's $100B and why founder-market fit wins
• Fri 24 JulMost funded founders end with 5% equity, here's the math
• Thu 23 JulMonday.com cuts 630 jobs to double down on AI
• Wed 22 JulDimension's $800M fund and Google's $2.4B HALO: AI founder shift
• Tue 21 JulAnthropic settles $1.5B, China open-weight AI overtakes US
• Mon 20 JulNetflix drops $587M on Affleck AI; Current AI open web $400M
• Sun 19 JulClaude builds $10K app in hour, AEs face $2M quotas
• Sat 18 JulIndex co-founder: AI boom forces wealth redistribution
• Fri 17 JulBP sells VC assets, ex-DeepMind raises $55M seed
• Thu 16 JulFounders: AI spending gap and false PMF threat
• Wed 15 JulOpenAI alum's $2B drug AI, DeepSeek's $71B raise
• Tue 14 JulPixVerse $439M, Nous $75M, Founder Dilemma
• Mon 13 JulAI Labs Get 4x Seed Valuations, Gov Stake Solves Alignment
• Sun 12 JulNvidia's GPU Loans Raise AI Doubts, Yosemite Bets $350M
• Sat 11 JulFizz leaks, SK Hynix’s record IPO, ServiceTitan hits $1B ARR
• Fri 10 JulAI agents just raised bigger than most startups
• Thu 9 JulOpenAI, Anthropic give $800M in free AI credits to YC startups
• Wed 8 JulNorm AI law firm hits unicorn, $120M backs outcome pricing
• Tue 7 JulUnicorn glasses, robot SPAC, and a $86 churn trap
• Mon 6 Jul90 AI unicorns, Agility's $620M SPAC, and the tagline cost
• Sun 5 JulToast hits $6.5B ARR as segmented churn and AI outbound reshape SaaS growth
• Fri 3 JulAI eats sales teams: Vercel slashes SDRs 90%, Google spends $2.4B
• Thu 2 JulTogether AI $800M, Turakhia $30M, Venice unicorn
• Wed 1 JulEx-DeepMind founders raise $500M; Wayve $8.5B tender

June 2026

• Tue 30 JunChamath returns with $135M; Rocket Lab buys Iridium
• Mon 29 JunAI inbound agent books 614 meetings
• Sun 28 JunRobotaxi startups learn Ford's $10M lesson the hard way
• Sat 27 JunFounders: Cut red tape, $50M for AI vetting, Corgi denies theft
• Fri 26 JunVCs chase $100B exits as AI agent trades World Cup futures
• Thu 25 JunYC’s AI Binge, Zombie Unicorns & the Self-Building Startup
• Wed 24 JunGoogle axed the engineer who pre‑empted its own product
• Tue 23 JunFounders: SpaceX rents GPUs $150M/mo, Groq $650M, traction trap
• Mon 22 Jun$2B seed, $12B valuation: Thinking Machines Lab's new record
• Sun 21 JunFounders Fund bets on fish robot, Klarna IPO at $15B
• Sat 20 JunGo's ¥88.6 bn IPO and YC's $200M AI defense startup
• Fri 19 JunBasenen raises $1.5B, OpenAI hires Transformer co-author
• Thu 18 JunOdyssey $310M raise, YC promotes Rockset and Dependabot founders
• Wed 17 JunSpaceX's $60B Cursor buy rewrites founder math
• Mon 15 JunYC hard‑tech AI batch defies doubts; GTM headcount halves
• Mon 8 JunBending Spoons files $20B IPO as AI token pricing crisis looms
• Sun 7 JunRecruit CRM $11M ARR, Linear Local-First, OpenAI Super App
• Sat 6 JunTrump weighs OpenAI stake, Supabase hits $10B
• Fri 5 JunAI funding flood erodes founder skin in the game
• Thu 4 JunRamp hits $44B, Benchmark launches $1.25B fund
• Wed 3 JunYC-Backed Manufact, Suno’s $400M, Cyera’s $12B
• Tue 2 JunImpulse Space raises $500M, Mach Industries $300M
• Mon 1 JunAnthropic IPO, Ex-Meta $250M climate fund

May 2026

• Sun 31 MaySnap alumni fund, Black founders $643M, AI froth warning
• Sat 30 MayFounders friend equity risk and 24-step pitch playbook
• Fri 29 MayAnthropic $965B, Corgi $106M, AI Cofounder
• Thu 28 MayCognition lands $1B; Altman proposes token-equity
• Wed 27 MayStord lands $250M; OpenRouter hits $1.3B; VCs deploy $300B
• Tue 26 MayOpenAI offers $2M API tokens to YC startups; Lucra wins $20M on AI pitch