Q1 2026 Set a Funding Record. Most Founders Got Nothing.
Three hundred billion dollars. That’s how much money poured into startups in the first three months of 2026. More than any quarter in history. More
April 18, 2026
Three hundred billion dollars. That’s how much money poured into startups in the first three months of 2026. More than any quarter in history. More
Imagine you’re at a pitch competition next month. Thirty founders line up. Twenty-two of them are pitching some variation of “AI copilot for [industry].” The
Every SaaS founder I know has a spreadsheet. The one with the five-year revenue model, the carefully plotted T2D3 growth curve, the hiring plan that
A year ago, DeepSeek dropped a model that sent Nvidia’s stock into freefall and made half of Silicon Valley question whether they’d been overspending on
Nineteen percent. That’s the percentage of organizations that have a complete AI governance framework in place right now. Nineteen. And 58% of those same organizations
By Liran Herlinger | April 29, 2026 | 7 min read $1.1 billion. That’s what a six-month-old startup with no customers, no product, and no