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New York Times

Agentio: $40 million from Forerunner to scale creator marketplace beyond YouTube

Forbes

Joy: Parenting, Reimagined: How A Parenting App’s Bet On AI Is Rebuilding The Village For Modern Families

TechCrunch

Hero: Productivity app announces an SDK that will complete your AI prompts for you

The Information

Duckbill: Introducing The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups of 2025

Entrepreneur

Dutch: He Went From Food Stamps to Co-Founding a $9.3 Billion Startup. Here’s Why He Walked Away.

New York Times

Ash by Slingshot: Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use?

Axios

Duos: New $130M in funding for benefits navigation for older adults

TIME

Teal Health: TIME's Best Inventions of 2025

Inc

Ritual: The Supplements Startup Founder Who Wants Congress to Regulate Her Industry More, Not Less

Becker's Hospital Review

AmplifyMD: Memorial Hermann joins $20M funding round

TechCrunch

Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

Bloomberg

Fora: $40,000 Vacations Inspire Finance Pros to Become Travel Agents

The New York Times

Mindtrip: A.I. Travel Tools Are Everywhere. How Good Are They?

Axios

Basic Capital: $25 million raised to reinvent 401(k)s

Axios

Topline Pro: $27M to bring AI to home services

CNET

Teal Health: The First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Wand Is Now Available. This Is How It Works and Who Can Use It

Forbes

Stan: This Startup Helps Creators Sell Classes, Coaching And More To Their Fans

Forbes

Jump: Alex Rodriguez’s Startup Jump Raises $23 Million In Quest To Be Shopify For Sports Teams

Fortune

The post-Figma question: Who’s next?

Fortune

Tech industry insiders share their picks for the next startups who will ride the IPO wave after Figma’s blockbuster debut

Fortune

Courtyard: Forerunner leads $30 million round in collectibles marketplace

Forbes

Slingshot: Can A Chatbot Be Your Therapist? Casper’s Neil Parikh Launches A New $93 Million-Backed Startup To Try

The New Consumer

Daydream: AI and the future of shopping

Business of Fashion

Daydream: How Investors Fell Back in Love With Fashion Tech

TBPN

TBPN | Friday, June 27th, Forerunner Founding Partner Kirsten Green

Y Combinator

Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products

The Information

Decagon: Building the Internet of Agents

The Information

Forerunner’s Green: ‘Virality’ Won’t Last for Some Consumer AI Startups

Fast Company

Daydream: This new AI app just might make online shopping fun again

TechCrunch

Daydream: Julie Bornstein’s Daydream is releasing an AI-powered chatbot for fashion-related shopping

Fortune

Daydream: Top e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein unveils Daydream—an AI-powered shopping agent that’s 25 years in the making

Fashionista

Daydream: the Chat-Based Shopping Platform Melding AI and 'Real Fashion Intelligence'

Forbes

Daydream: Julie Bornstein’s Daydream Is Leading The Agentic AI Fashion Shopping Revolution Starting With 8,000 Brands

Vogue Business

Daydream: Is this AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?

Reuters

Decagon: Customer service AI startup raises $131 million

Apple

Speechify: Apple unveils winners and finalists of the 2025 Apple Design Awards

Forbes

Kirsten Green: Forbes Midas List 2025

CNBC

Monarch Money: Personal finance app raises $75 million despite ‘nuclear winter’ for fintech startups

Inc

Arcade: How This AI-Powered Company Is Tapping OpenAI’s New Image Generator

TechCrunch

Chime: $25B-valued Chime files for an IPO, reveals $33M deal with Dallas Mavericks

CNBC

Chime: Fintech company Chime files for Nasdaq IPO

New York Times

Teal Health: F.D.A. Approves First At-Home Alternative to the Pap Smear

Forbes

Dutch: PetMeds And Dutch Team Up For Veterinary Care And Prescriptions

Bloomberg

Wonder: Grubhub Owner Tops $7 Billion Valuation in New Funding

Fortune

Fora: Thrive-backed Fora has raised $60 million for a travel agent platform that can withstand a recession

How I Built This

Pie: Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos and Pie

Fast Company

Dutch: 38% of Americans live in veterinary deserts—this company wants its telehealth approach to be part of a solution

Axios

Dutch: Hims co-founder on his move from telehealth for people to pets

TechCrunch

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table

TechCrunch

AI has opened a new era in venture capital, according to Forerunner founder Kirsten Green

The Generalist

How to Build a Tier 1 Fund

TechCrunch

Arcade: AI creation platform expands from jewelry to home goods

Eater

Wonder: What’s the Deal With the ‘Food Hall’ That’s Suddenly Everywhere?

CNBC

Ritual: I quit my job while pregnant to start a multivitamin company that brings in over $250M/Yr

The Generalist

A Consumer Investing Masterclass

TechCrunch

Pie: Andy Dunn’s new app Pie uses AI to help you make friends

TechCrunch

Pie: Andy Dunn’s new app uses AI to help you make friends

Fortune

Wonder: Inside the restless mind of a serial founder, Timberwolves co-owner Marc Lore sold one startup for $545 million and another for $3.3 billion. Why can’t he stop hustling?

South Park Commons

Kirsten Green’s $500M Bet on Consumer AI

CNBC

Prenuvo: Adding new health tests to flagship full-body scan, raises $120 million in fresh funding

Bloomberg Businessweek

OURA: How the Smart Ring Bridged the Gap From Tech Bros to Normies

Inc

What Forerunner Ventures Looks For in Consumer Startups: Vision, Magnetism, and Unfair Advantages

The Generalist

Letters to a Young Investor: Kirsten Green

Business Insider

Fay: Nutrition startup just landed $50 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation led by Goldman Growth Equity

Axios

Exclusive: Oura's AI plan keeps health data local — and private

Business Insider

Pie: The rise of 'friendship apps'

Silicon Angle

webAI: Companion is an AI assistant for enterprise employees that runs privately on their own devices

Inc

How Teal Health Aims to Save Lives With Its At-Home Cervical Cancer Tests

Fortune

Exclusive: Teal Health raises $10 million to replace the annual Pap smear with at-home test for cervical cancer

CNET

Duckbill: I Tried an AI Executive Assistant for My Personal Life

Axios

Roon: $15 million to become a next-gen WebMD

TechCrunch

Roon: $15M to replace ‘Dr. Google’ with real doctors sharing videos about illness treatments

Eater

Wonder: the ‘Food Hall’ That’s Suddenly Everywhere?

The Verge

Wonder: Just Eat is selling Grubhub to Marc Lore’s Wonder for $650M

TechCrunch

Leland: $12 million to grow its coaching platform

Axios

Table22: A $11M series A for food and beverage subscriptions

Fortune

Exclusive: Amazon’s top grocery exec departs for Wonder, Marc Lore’s celebrity-chef restaurant startup

Wall Street Journal

OURA: Why the Smart Ring Has a Cult Following

Fortune

Exclusive: Toy brand KiwiCo has surpassed $1 billion in lifetime revenue

Fast Company

How Glossier CEO Kyle Leahy got the beauty brand to turn a profit

The Information

Bonobos Co-Founder Puts New Twist on Creator Funds

The Information

AI Can Jump-Start Consumer Brands, Investors and Founders Say

Business Insider

These are the 19 best female early-stage investors

WWD

Beauty’s Most Powerful Financiers

Inc

Pie: Why Bonobos Founder Andy Dunn's New Startup Mission Is About Facilitating Friendships

Entrepreneur

Fay: This 30-Year-Old Left Harvard and Raised $25 Million in Funding to Launch a Nutrition Business Inspired by His Mom

WSJ

Bonobos Co-Founder Andy Dunn’s New Startup Aims to ‘Defeat Social Isolation’

Business of Fashion

How AI Could Change Online Product Search and Discovery

WWD

Ritual: Latest Launch Is a Fertility-supporting Lemonade

CBS

Duckbill CEO explains how app can be a "personal assistant in your pocket" | Changing the Game

Washington Post

Dutch: This veterinarian knows what our pets can’t tell us

New York Times

Teal Health: An Alternative to the Pap Smear Is Here, No Speculum Required

Fortune

Forerunner-backed Fora wants to make travel ‘the new real estate’ for female gig-economy workers

Fierce Healthcare

Headway: A $100M series D round to accelerate expansion into Medicare Advantage and Medicaid

Fortune

humans&: An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them

Investing in humans&, led by former Anthropic and Google researchers

webAI Raises at $2.5 Billion Valuation

Known: using voice AI to help you go on more in-person dates

This startup says it aspires to be the “Amazon of homes”

Agentio: $40 million from Forerunner to scale creator marketplace beyond YouTube

Joy: Parenting, Reimagined: How A Parenting App’s Bet On AI Is Rebuilding The Village For Modern Families

Hero: Productivity app announces an SDK that will complete your AI prompts for you

Duckbill: Introducing The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups of 2025

Dutch: He Went From Food Stamps to Co-Founding a $9.3 Billion Startup. Here’s Why He Walked Away.

Ash by Slingshot: Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use?

Duos: New $130M in funding for benefits navigation for older adults

Teal Health: TIME's Best Inventions of 2025

Ritual: The Supplements Startup Founder Who Wants Congress to Regulate Her Industry More, Not Less

AmplifyMD: Memorial Hermann joins $20M funding round

Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

Fora: $40,000 Vacations Inspire Finance Pros to Become Travel Agents

Mindtrip: A.I. Travel Tools Are Everywhere. How Good Are They?

Basic Capital: $25 million raised to reinvent 401(k)s

Topline Pro: $27M to bring AI to home services

Teal Health: The First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Wand Is Now Available. This Is How It Works and Who Can Use It

Stan: This Startup Helps Creators Sell Classes, Coaching And More To Their Fans

Jump: Alex Rodriguez’s Startup Jump Raises $23 Million In Quest To Be Shopify For Sports Teams

The post-Figma question: Who’s next?

Tech industry insiders share their picks for the next startups who will ride the IPO wave after Figma’s blockbuster debut

Courtyard: Forerunner leads $30 million round in collectibles marketplace

Slingshot: Can A Chatbot Be Your Therapist? Casper’s Neil Parikh Launches A New $93 Million-Backed Startup To Try

Daydream: AI and the future of shopping

Daydream: How Investors Fell Back in Love With Fashion Tech

TBPN | Friday, June 27th, Forerunner Founding Partner Kirsten Green

Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products

Decagon: Building the Internet of Agents

Forerunner’s Green: ‘Virality’ Won’t Last for Some Consumer AI Startups

Daydream: This new AI app just might make online shopping fun again

Daydream: Julie Bornstein’s Daydream is releasing an AI-powered chatbot for fashion-related shopping

Daydream: Top e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein unveils Daydream—an AI-powered shopping agent that’s 25 years in the making

Daydream: the Chat-Based Shopping Platform Melding AI and 'Real Fashion Intelligence'

Daydream: Julie Bornstein’s Daydream Is Leading The Agentic AI Fashion Shopping Revolution Starting With 8,000 Brands

Daydream: Is this AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?

Decagon: Customer service AI startup raises $131 million

Speechify: Apple unveils winners and finalists of the 2025 Apple Design Awards

Kirsten Green: Forbes Midas List 2025

Monarch Money: Personal finance app raises $75 million despite ‘nuclear winter’ for fintech startups

Arcade: How This AI-Powered Company Is Tapping OpenAI’s New Image Generator

Chime: $25B-valued Chime files for an IPO, reveals $33M deal with Dallas Mavericks

Chime: Fintech company Chime files for Nasdaq IPO

Teal Health: F.D.A. Approves First At-Home Alternative to the Pap Smear

Dutch: PetMeds And Dutch Team Up For Veterinary Care And Prescriptions

Wonder: Grubhub Owner Tops $7 Billion Valuation in New Funding

Fora: Thrive-backed Fora has raised $60 million for a travel agent platform that can withstand a recession

Pie: Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos and Pie

Dutch: 38% of Americans live in veterinary deserts—this company wants its telehealth approach to be part of a solution

Dutch: Hims co-founder on his move from telehealth for people to pets

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table

AI has opened a new era in venture capital, according to Forerunner founder Kirsten Green

How to Build a Tier 1 Fund

Arcade: AI creation platform expands from jewelry to home goods

Wonder: What’s the Deal With the ‘Food Hall’ That’s Suddenly Everywhere?

Ritual: I quit my job while pregnant to start a multivitamin company that brings in over $250M/Yr

A Consumer Investing Masterclass

Pie: Andy Dunn’s new app Pie uses AI to help you make friends

Pie: Andy Dunn’s new app uses AI to help you make friends

Wonder: Inside the restless mind of a serial founder, Timberwolves co-owner Marc Lore sold one startup for $545 million and another for $3.3 billion. Why can’t he stop hustling?

Kirsten Green’s $500M Bet on Consumer AI

Prenuvo: Adding new health tests to flagship full-body scan, raises $120 million in fresh funding

OURA: How the Smart Ring Bridged the Gap From Tech Bros to Normies

What Forerunner Ventures Looks For in Consumer Startups: Vision, Magnetism, and Unfair Advantages

Letters to a Young Investor: Kirsten Green

Fay: Nutrition startup just landed $50 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation led by Goldman Growth Equity

Exclusive: Oura's AI plan keeps health data local — and private

Pie: The rise of 'friendship apps'

webAI: Companion is an AI assistant for enterprise employees that runs privately on their own devices

How Teal Health Aims to Save Lives With Its At-Home Cervical Cancer Tests

Exclusive: Teal Health raises $10 million to replace the annual Pap smear with at-home test for cervical cancer

Duckbill: I Tried an AI Executive Assistant for My Personal Life

Roon: $15 million to become a next-gen WebMD

Roon: $15M to replace ‘Dr. Google’ with real doctors sharing videos about illness treatments

Wonder: the ‘Food Hall’ That’s Suddenly Everywhere?

Wonder: Just Eat is selling Grubhub to Marc Lore’s Wonder for $650M

Leland: $12 million to grow its coaching platform