Startup Riders

🌊 Accel’s AI report

Accel Globalscape 2025: $4.1T AI data-center CapEx, 117GW power gap, training vs inference, agents moving to payroll, and Europe competing across the AI…

Nov 12 • 

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🌊 Europe accelerates

Big AI rounds, fast growth, and real capital moving this month

Nov 6 • 

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October 2025

🌊 AI is getting a memory

OpenAI founder predicts the next decade, Anthropic learns new “Skills", and Gong data reveals how humans still win in the age of AI.

Oct 23 • 

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🌊 The rarest asset in venture

AI bubbles, defence booms, trillion-dollar charts, and courage > consensus.

Oct 16 • 

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🌊 The new AI stack

I spent the week in SF for Tech Week, from a16z’s Speedrun to OpenAI’s App Store moment, here’s what’s actually moving in AI and venture capital.

Oct 9 • 

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🌊 Fundraising toolbox

This week’s drop is the 80/20 of fundraising resources for early-stage founders. These are the guides, benchmarks, and tools I find myself sending to…

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

🌊 The AI money loop

Top 30 European AI financing rounds of 2025, from Mistral’s $1.99B mega-round to fresh $40–100M bets across legal, health, and robotics. Most are…

Sep 25 • 

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🌊 AI startups raising >$100M

In Q3 2025, 25 startups raised $100M+, mostly in AI. Giants like Anthropic ($13B), Mistral ($1.99B), and Cohere ($500M) led the way, alongside verticals…

Sep 18 • 

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🌊 The $2B SaaS Playbook | Ignacio ‘Guli’ Moreno (Co-founder ‪@Capchase‬)

This week I sat down with my friend Ignacio “Guli” Moreno, cofounder of Capchase, the fintech that has deployed more than $2B into SaaS…

Sep 11 • 

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🌊 Founder Info-Diet

What to read and watch to learn startups faster.

Sep 9 • 

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🌊 How not to raise money

Reading “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” between sets this summer (full corelord). One idea stuck: inversion.And it hit me, this is one of the most powerful…

Sep 2 • 

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July 2025

🌊 Where AI Capital Is Consolidating

Where’s AI capital flowing and what does it signal for founders? In this drop: the first AI markets have crystalized, 16 startups raised $31B last…

Jul 26 • 

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