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General Medicine Wants Patients to Shop Their Way to Power
A $120 million round led by a16z backs a healthcare store built around upfront prices and patient choice. The test is whether a better checkout can also deliver better access to care.
Pylon Wants to Kill Zendesk for the Slack Generation
The Y Combinator startup rebuilt customer support for B2B companies who live in Slack, not ticket queues. Now it has $51M and 750+ customers betting it is right.
OpenAI's $122B Megaround Shows AI Funding Has Gone Nuclear
On March 31, 2026, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history — $122 billion in committed capital at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. Anchored by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B), with continued participation from Microsoft and a sweeping syndicate of global institutions, the round dwarfs every prior private tech raise and cements OpenAI as the world's most valuable startup by a wide margin. The company is generating $2 billion in monthly revenue, counting 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, and is widely expected to pursue an IPO.