Akash Pasricha

We tallied 92 software companies that may be ripe for acquisition, based in part on how long it’s been since they last raised money. Many of the takeover candidates focus on specific industries, such as logistics or e-commerce software companies, which have been under mounting pressure for ...

Deep in Queens, New York, out near John F. Kennedy Airport, Larry Fischer was distraught. One of his favorite Italian joints—Don Peppe, the place where he lunched with Facebook’s lawyers after selling them Messenger.com in 2014—had closed for vacation this past week. It had seemed like a fitting ...

Our AI Chip Startup Database is expanding quickly. Positron AI, which has raised $23.5 million from investors including Flume Ventures and Valor Equity Partners, is the latest Nvidia challenger we’ve added to our database.Positron is testing its chip, which it claims will be cheaper and more ...

Readers of The Information are sharply divided on the future value of OpenAI, with roughly one-fourth expecting the value of the ChatGPT maker to soar past $500 billion in three years—and an almost equal number expecting it to plunge below $100 billion. OpenAI was most recently valued at $157 ...

Several big tech companies are laying off employees and making performance-based job cuts. But firms are also hiring and shifting senior executives to bolster their artificial intelligence credentials—as reflected in The Information’s Org Charts.This week, Microsoft said Executive Vice President ...

Dealmakers have been busy in the early days of 2025, as we’ve noted. Creator economy companies have been in on the action.On Monday, YouTube production company Brat TV bought a similar digital video studio, Electric Monster, in a possible harbinger of more consolidation in the sector. Last week, ...

We’ve been selecting promising startups for The Information 50 for five years now, and we’ve compiled those 250 picks into The Information 50 Database. Many have grown to impressive heights. To be considered for the list, companies must be valued at less than $1 billion; since we selected them, ...

Before we get to our main item of the day, a note to readers to tune in here tomorrow for reactions to Google’s Gemini 2.0 large language model, which was announced this morning.Now onto our main item…Artificial intelligence developers are realizing they need help standing out in an increasingly ...

Brex’s org chart, as it is today, is practically unrecognizable from a year ago. Six of CEO Pedro Franceschi’s seven direct reports stepped into their roles in the past 12 months. Plus, two co-CEOs ran the corporate card company until June, when co-founder Henrique Dubugras exited. This ...

Anthropic’s sibling co-founders, Dario and Daniela Amodei, had much to celebrate over Thanksgiving dinner this year. One week ago, Amazon said it would be stuffing their company with yet another $4 billion investment. It’s the second time Amazon has done so—it announced its first Anthropic ...