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Ridgeline secures $250M Series E, valuing AI-native investment platform at $1.425B
September 16, 2026

Ridgeline secures $250M Series E, valuing AI-native investment platform at $1.425B

Ridgeline is rebuilding investment management on a single AI-native platform that already underpins more than $750B in assets — and it just landed a $250M Series E led by Dave Duffield, the entrepreneur behind ...

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MenuData raises $3M–$5M to become food's AI data layer
September 2, 2026

MenuData raises $3M–$5M to become food's AI data layer

MenuData turned seven years of restaurant transaction data into an AI agent that tells food and beverage giants what's trending before it hits the news. We joined Lookout Ventures, Growth Warrior Capital, and Gellert ...

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Databento raises $97M to become finance's default data layer
July 9, 2026

Databento raises $97M to become finance's default data layer

Databento builds the market data platform quant traders and hedge funds rely on daily — and it just closed a $97M Series B led by NEA, oversubscribed by over $300M in demand. The company grew revenue 6.65x year over ...

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EdVisorly raises $13.3M to untangle college transfers
July 8, 2026

EdVisorly raises $13.3M to untangle college transfers

EdVisorly automates the paperwork nightmare of transferring community college credits to a four-year degree — reading transcripts, recalculating GPAs, and matching courses against university requirements so students ...

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Christina Qi went from food stamps to Nvidia and OpenAI as customers
October 9, 2026

Christina Qi went from food stamps to Nvidia and OpenAI as customers

Databento sells market data to researchers at hedge funds and AI labs, and its 70,000 customers now include Nvidia and OpenAI. After growing up on food stamps and shutting down her first hedge fund, founder Christina Qi ...

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CorralData acquires The Data Co, adding two major aesthetics networks
October 7, 2026

CorralData acquires The Data Co, adding two major aesthetics networks

CorralData, the AI and data platform for healthcare and wellness brands, has acquired The Data Co, an analytics provider for medspa and surgical aesthetic operators. The deal brings Cosmetic Physician Partners and ...

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EdVisorly's AI platform helped one college clear 120,000 transcripts in six weeks
September 29, 2026

EdVisorly's AI platform helped one college clear 120,000 transcripts in six weeks

EdVisorly's EddyAI platform automates the paperwork behind enrollment — transcript evaluations, transfer credit decisions, GPA recalculations — for more than 100 colleges and universities, cutting processing time ...

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Micro1 raises over $100M at a $4 billion valuation, backed by xAI cofounders
September 22, 2026

Micro1 raises over $100M at a $4 billion valuation, backed by xAI cofounders

Micro1 supplies frontier AI labs, Microsoft, Amazon, and robotics companies with the human-made data they need to train and evaluate models — and in a little over a year, the company has gone from a $7M business to a ...

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micro1 selected to support the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission
September 1, 2026

micro1 selected to support the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission

The Department of Energy is calling it the Manhattan Project of AI. micro1 has been picked to help power the inaugural Genesis Mission, bringing its work in technical data, evaluation, and expert review to the national ...

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micro1 turned an AI recruiter into a $2.5B data lab
August 11, 2026

micro1 turned an AI recruiter into a $2.5B data lab

Micro1 built an AI recruiter that screens experts to train frontier AI models, and it's now growing at 6,963% with revenue jumping from $7 million to over $400 million in a year. Founder Ali Ansari is 25, on leave from ...

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Notes from the Venture Desk
By Abi Malin • June 9, 2026

Is Consumer the Contrarian Bet of the AI Era?

Consumer investing has been venture capital's least favorite table for years. According to Carta, consumer companies captured just 7% of all U.S. venture investment in 2023 — the sector's lowest market share in the data going back to 2018, and the first time in that period ...

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By Abi Malin • May 1, 2026

How Much Should AI Decide Without Asking You?

In response to my recent piece on AI-powered embedded finance, a reader raised a sharp question about the governance and trust layer: As AI agents start making financial decisions autonomously, who defines what an agent is authorized to do, and how do organizations build ...

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Ask the Team
By Jen Kasse • June 3, 2026

Your Private Fund Account and Your Estate Plan: What You Need to Know

Estate planning has a way of prompting great questions about the investments you've worked hard to build. One we hear often: how should my private fund account be titled? Whether you're setting up a trust for the first time, reorganizing how you hold your assets, or simply ...

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By Abi Malin • May 1, 2026

How We Decide to Write a Check

People ask us all the time what our diligence process looks like. Fair question — and one we're happy to answer in detail. Here's how it works at Motley Fool Ventures.

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