💭 Thought bubble: AI + consumer health (Erin Brodwin, Brock E.W. Turner)
- OpenAI and Anthropic are succeeding where Google and Microsoft struggled.
🤖 Parloa's big raise shows bots' promise (Chris Metinko)
- Companies' comfort with agents keeps drawing investment.
💰 Exclusive: Mangrove Lithium raises $85M (Katie Fehrenbacher)
- The Canadian company's raise comes as China dominates the sector.
🎰 Exclusive: Sportsbook gets $35M (Lucinda Shen)
- Despite prediction markets being the golden child.
🏛️ Exclusive: GovDash gets $30M (Ryan Lawler)
- It helps companies find and bid on government contracts.
📦 Pinch targets e-commerce returns fraud (Colin Campbell)
- The company closed a $5m seed and has its eyes on a Series A.
📱 Exclusive: $22M for media startup (Kerry Flynn, Sara Fischer)
- Holywater focuses on "microdramas."
