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10 articlesStartup funding rounds, launches, and ecosystem trends.
Perplexity Launches Billion Dollar Build — $1M Seed Funding to Build a Unicorn in 8 Weeks With Perplexity Computer
Perplexity announced on April 9, 2026 its Billion Dollar Build — an 8-week competition offering up to $3 million ($1M seed + $1M compute + $1M upside) to founders who build a startup with a credible path to a $1 billion valuation, exclusively using Perplexity Computer. Registration opens April 14, finale on June 9. Perplexity ARR now hits $450 million.
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Lovable at $400M ARR Goes Hunting: The Vibe Coding Unicorn Is Acquiring Competitors
Lovable ($6.6B valuation, $400M ARR) announces active acquisition hunt. Anton Osika targets founders and startups. Vibe coding consolidation begins.
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Station F Launches F/ai: Paris Wants to Become the World Capital of AI Startups
Station F launches F/ai, the first acceleration program dedicated to early-stage AI startups in Europe. AI labs, VCs and founders united in Paris.
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OpenAI Acquires Astral: After Models, the Conquest of the Entire Python Stack
OpenAI acquires Astral, the studio behind Ruff and uv. Goal: control the entire Python stack, from linter to package manager, against Anthropic and Cursor.
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Stripe MPP: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Banking System
Stripe launches the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with Tempo and Paradigm. AI agents can now pay for APIs and services autonomously, in stablecoin or fiat, with zero human intervention.
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Trustpilot No Longer Wants to Be a Review Site — It Wants to Be AI Shopping Agents' Memory
Trustpilot is repositioning as the source of truth for AI shopping agents. 330M reviews, DA 93, 190K new reviews/day: the GEO pivot explained.
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Whop: 20 Engineers, $1.2B GMV — The Startup Taking On Stripe, Shopify and Gumroad
Whop generates $1.2 billion in annualized GMV with just 20 engineers. Valued at $800M, this creator super-app combines payments, marketplace and business tools in one dashboard.
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AI Absorbs Global Venture Capital: $189B in February, OpenAI and Anthropic Crush Everything
OpenAI raises $110B, Anthropic $30B, Wayve $1.2B. Global startup funding hits $189 billion in February 2026, +780% YoY. Venture capital is undergoing a structural transformation.
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Finance Is No Longer Testing AI, It's Putting It to Work: Dyna.Ai, Rowspace and Banks Go to Production
Dyna.Ai raises an eight-figure Series A, Rowspace launches with $50M for private equity, JPMorgan and Citi industrialize AI. Finance shifts from POC to massive agentic AI deployment.
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Mistral AI Targets €1B Revenue in 2026: Arthur Mensch's Race Against Time
With €300M ARR, the Koyeb acquisition and 10,000 public agents equipped, Mistral AI wants to triple its revenue in 15 months. But competition from AMI, OpenAI and Google complicates the equation.
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