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Hyeri Jo

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Hyeri Jo

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Spent the past 5 years covering the Korean startup scene, and now diving deep into the tech world in SF!

AI Is Squeezing Software Wrappers. Pigment Just Raised $250 Million Because It Isn't One.

AI Is Squeezing Software Wrappers. Pigment Just Raised $250 Million Because It Isn't One.

Before selling anything, the French startup spent its first years building a planning engine. Now companies from Anthropic to L'Oréal plan on it, and investors value it at $2.3 billion.

OCT 21, 2026
5 MIN READ
Otter.ai Takes $320 Million Without Selling a Share, Five Times the Venture Money It Raised in a Decade

Otter.ai Takes $320 Million Without Selling a Share, Five Times the Venture Money It Raised in a Decade

Free built Otter's user base. The new money is for selling to the companies those users work at.

OCT 20, 2026
5 MIN READ
Everyone in Robotics Is Fighting the Same Demo-to-Real Gap

Everyone in Robotics Is Fighting the Same Demo-to-Real Gap

Inside the launch of Industrial Next's Real2Sim2Real Arena

OCT 09, 2026
9 MIN READ
Why Great Founders Think Like Engineers

Why Great Founders Think Like Engineers

An interview with Qasar Younis, Founder of Applied Intuition

OCT 06, 2026
17 MIN READ
Longshot: Why Getting to Space Might Need a Gun, Not a Rocket.

Longshot: Why Getting to Space Might Need a Gun, Not a Rocket.

12 hours inside Longshot, the startup trying to make space launch 15x cheaper

OCT 05, 2026
20 MIN READ
 The Founder Mistake I Saw From Google to Dropbox

The Founder Mistake I Saw From Google to Dropbox

An interview with Dennis Woodside, CEO of Freshworks

OCT 04, 2026
16 MIN READ
The One Thing a Legendary PM Optimized For

The One Thing a Legendary PM Optimized For

An interview with Peter Deng, General Partner at Felicis

OCT 04, 2026
24 MIN READ
How a $3B VC Picks Founders Before There's a Product

How a $3B VC Picks Founders Before There's a Product

Interview with Navin Chaddha, Managing Partner at Mayfield

OCT 02, 2026
18 MIN READ
Everyone in SF Has Met Boardy. Here's What Its Founder Says It's For.

Everyone in SF Has Met Boardy. Here's What Its Founder Says It's For.

Andrew D'Souza, founder of Boardy, speaking at the Boardy 2.0 launch party in SF

SEP 28, 2026
15 MIN READ