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Samsung Next buys a seat at tomorrow’s table
Samsung’s venture arm offers founders capital and a route into a vast hardware business. The interesting part is what happens between the check and the customer.
Precursor Ventures bets on the before.
Before the traction chart. Before the polished pitch. Charles Hudson built a venture firm for founders who still have something to prove - and is now rethinking where “early” ends.
Critical Path made email disappear.
Millions of people used its technology without seeing its name. Critical Path sold the machinery behind the inbox - and exposed how differently a service can perform from the company selling it.
AnonimA: Share the moment. Spare the face.
A free photo tool took on a difficult bargain: show the world what happened without handing it the identities of everyone who was there.
434 Gives Local Startups the Luxury of Time
In Charlottesville, a nine-month accelerator puts founders, advisers and student talent within reach. The useful trick is making those connections last longer than a pitch.
The Colorado Startup Teaching Your Phone to Diet on Netflix
Video eats the wireless network alive. A husband-and-wife team on Colorado's Western Slope built AI that puts it on a diet - on the device, before it ever clogs the tower.
The Denver Firm That Buys Companies Nobody Else Wants to Fix
It writes checks of $25 to $75 million for lower-middle-market companies most investors find too complicated, then spends its time on the operational grind others skip. Its own pitch: 'Profitability Not Required.'
The Little Fund That Turned $44 Million Into a $1.15 Billion Habit
It started as a modest state bet on Rhode Island's innovation economy. Twenty-five years and 144 companies later, Slater is the quiet engine underneath the state's startup scene - and it keeps recycling its wins.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
Tyba
Tyba is a San Francisco-based climate software company that helps energy companies develop, model, and operate battery energy storage projects more profitably. Its AI-driven platform pairs a Project Simulation product - which backtests and forecasts revenue for storage assets in development - with an Asset Operations product that automates real-time bidding and dispatch in wholesale power markets like ERCOT and CAISO. Founded in 2022 by former energy developers and infrastructure engineers, Tyba positions itself as the 'autopilot for batteries,' emphasizing transparent, non-black-box optimization. The company raised a $13.9M Series A led by Energize Capital in February 2025.
Sentry
Sentry is an application monitoring platform built for developers - giving engineering teams real-time visibility into errors, performance bottlenecks, and crashes across web, mobile, and backend stacks. Started as an open-source side project in 2008, it now serves more than four million developers and 100,000+ organizations including Disney, Microsoft, Atlassian, and GitHub.