Startup Riders

🌊 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 • 

Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Founder Info-Diet

What to read and watch to learn startups faster.

Sep 9 • 

Ivan Landabaso

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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 • 

Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Replacing Sales Teams with AI: Throxy’s $1.5M ARR Playbook

Why this founder ditched “AISDR” hype and built a "full-stack AI agency" to replace SDRs.

Jul 17 • 

Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Top 10 Market Research Reports

Where capital flows. How the best build. Bill Gurley dropped a clinic on the state of venture capital on Invest Like The Best. The Details: 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮…

Jul 9 • 

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June 2025

🌊 AI Voice Agents

2025 is going to go down as the year of Agents, but also Voice AI.We’ve been digging into voice and done a few investments in the space (HappyRobot…

Jun 25 • 

Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Founder Vibe Coding Stack: Building a YC Admissions Calculator (Live Session) | Alex Vaughtton (@NocodeHackers)

How Alex ships full products in hours using Lovable, agents, and founder-first thinking.

Jun 19 • 

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🌊 0 to $500K ARR in Months: Konvo AI’s Ecommerce Agent Blueprint | Guillem Oliva (Konvo AI)

How two founders went from kitchen-table MVP to 200 brands and 8% agent-led conversion — in under a year.

Jun 10 • 

Ivan Landabaso

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