News about new and young companies, weighted toward those outside the venture market. Items cover formation and closure figures, small-firm funding rounds and grant awards, accelerator and program deadlines, and openings and failures in particular trades. Each entry states who is eligible or affected and by when.
Spend-management company Ramp raised $750 million at a $44 billion valuation, while Supabase, Impulse Space and fusion startup Helion anchored a week of $300-million-plus rounds.
Isabel Duarte · June 5, 2026
Cloudflare cut 20 percent of its workforce citing internal AI use up 600 percent, with Coinbase, Upwork, BILL and PayPal announcing their own AI-driven restructurings in the same week.
Tanya Brooks · May 14, 2026
Global startups raised $300 billion in the first quarter — an all-time record, with AI companies taking 80 percent of the money and four of the five biggest rounds ever.
Tanya Brooks · April 8, 2026
Filing an 83(b) election within thirty days of a restricted stock grant taxes the shares at today's near-zero value — missing the window taxes income you may never receive.
Isabel Duarte · March 16, 2026
The table an investor wants to see at diligence is fully diluted, current, and honest — with every option, SAFE, and promise that will ever claim a share already on it.
Isabel Duarte · February 22, 2026