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MITO's $4.5M Pre-Seed Deck: How Lightspeed Backed the AI Studio Behind 50 Cent, Zara and Movistar
18 slides from the founder who sold CoverWallet to Aon. Lightspeed led, and scouts from Sequoia and a16z followed
10 hrs ago • Ruben Dominguez
Lightsprint’s $6.1M Seed Deck: The 8 Slides That Won Over YC and 645 Ventures
PMs and designers ship code, engineering keeps the merge button. Here’s the full deck that raised the round.
Oct 15 • Ruben Dominguez
The Truth: Why Lean AI Startups Are Beating Everyone Else
AI-native startups generate 6x the revenue per employee. Here's exactly how they're built.
Oct 14 • Ruben Dominguez
Rippling's Outbound GTM Strategy Is Worth $17B
When a cold call gets you to $17B valuation, it means you did something right.
Oct 14 • Ruben Dominguez
Harbor Raised $10M to Insure AI Agents in Its First Year. Here Are the Deck and the Memo
Four founders who met at Stanford, three co-leads and a market with zero loss data. The moves you can copy
Oct 14 • Ruben Dominguez
An empirical agenda for AI🔬, How Does Thrive Do It?🎨, Everyone is building the same thing🧩
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
Oct 11 • Ruben Dominguez
973 VC Funds Under $200M, Cleaned and Scored: The Fresh Fund Sheet and the Fit Finder Prompt
148 of these firms closed a fund since 2024. Each comes researched, with its focus, stage and a starting score.
Oct 10 • Ruben Dominguez
These Famous VC Mistakes Still Teach the Best Investing Lessons
Some of the sharpest investors alive passed on the exact companies that made their rivals legendary, and the same reasoning keeps coming back.
Oct 9 • Ruben Dominguez
80 Seed AI Funds That Invested in the Last 180 Days: The Scored Sheet and the Syndicate Map
27 invested in the last 30 days. Every fund links to its source, and seven syndicates open a warm path to 24 of them.
Oct 8 • Ruben Dominguez
For Three Years, Only Companies With Big Budgets Could Work With Me. Today That Changes
Notion, Oracle and Vanta paid cash to reach this audience. Seed startups can now pay with equity. Two seats a month.
Oct 7 • Ruben Dominguez
The $5T AI Opportunity🤖, The Only Reason to Raise Venture Capital⚖️, The Great AI Capital Misallocation🏗️
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.
Oct 4 • Ruben Dominguez
Building the Agentic Rail: Ant International Unveils an End-to-End, AI-Native Payments Stack
With AMP, KYA, and a built-in guarantee against agent hallucinations, Ant International just built the full-stack infrastructure for the $5 trillion…
Oct 1
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