brought to you with

AI agents are getting logins. Bots are hiring humans. And billion-dollar deals are back on the table.

Today: a stealth startup takes aim at CyberArk, a marketplace where LLMs outsource real-world errands, Robinhood opens the private-market gates, and billions of records nearly slip into the wild.

Also, join us TODAY for our Crash Course in Financial Modeling.
If your runway lives in vibes, fix that.

Let’s dive in.

-😎

Eight bullets of updates

  1. 🚀 Individual investors may soon back high-growth startups via Robinhood’s new fund tapping Silicon Valley’s private market.

  2. 🛒 Mondra and inoqo combined forces to track Scope 3 emissions across 360M+ food products, aiming to boost transparency for supply chains.

  3. 🛑 Billions of personal records were left exposed online, highlighting critical identity theft risks before criminals could exploit them.

  4. 🤖 The upgraded model delivers faster responses and improved summarization as Anthropic keeps up its 4-month refresh pace.

  5. 📈 Snap’s direct revenue hits $1B ARR as 25M paid subscribers  fuel new monetization streams.

  6. 🎬 Warner Bros. Discovery gives Paramount one more week to top Netflix’s $27.75/share offer after sharing a merger recommendation to shareholders.

  7. 🎓 OpenAI aims to equip over 100,000 students and staff in India with AI skills through new education partnerships.

  8. 🧬 An AI-powered platform has surfaced a novel cancer treatment signal, validated and ready for clinical development.

Identity Management Startup Venice Aims to Challenge CyberArk Market Leadership

Photo by Arthur Mazi on Unsplash

Identity sprawl is no longer creeping, it’s compounding. As AI agents clock in beside humans, the org chart multiplies, and so do the credentials.

Out of stealth, a 35-person Israeli-American startup lands a $20M Series A (IVP, Index) with an audacious promise: 18 months to rip-and-replace CyberArk and Okta. The hook? One unified platform for hybrid estates and machine identities; deployed in roughly 11 days, powered by automation instead of armies of consultants.

If the speed sticks and the coverage holds, procurement shifts quickly. Fewer point tools. Less professional-services drag. Audits that don’t feel like archaeology.

Incumbents won’t sit quietly. Expect tighter bundles, louder “agent identity” narratives, and heavy reliance on integrations already buried deep in enterprise stacks.

The stakes are clean: founders win on hybrid depth and time-to-value. Buyers win by reducing switching friction , and shrinking the blast radius when credentials inevitably leak.

How to Value your Startup (and keep your Equity)

You have a startup idea.
It has billion-dollar potential.

But how much is it actually worth right now?

In this video, Caya breaks down how early-stage startup valuations really work; and why most founders think about them the wrong way. We explain pre-money vs post-money, how dilution actually happens (bricks vs pie charts), why most pre-seed rounds translate to 15–20% equity, and how raising more money can paradoxically make your company “worth” more.

Hire world-class engineers. Fast. From the US, Canada, LATAM, or Europe — we’ve got you covered.

Hiring great engineers shouldn’t feel like finding a needle in an AI-generated haystack. G2i connects you with pre-vetted contract and full-time developers—no scammers, no endless resume piles, just top talent with 5+ years of experience across every major tech stack.

We’ve already helped teams at Meta, Microsoft, and fast-growing startups like Shopmonkey and 1Password hire faster, smarter, and with full transparency through recorded technical interviews.

Whether you need one engineer or a whole team, we’ve got over 8,000 ready to go.

  1. 🧘 Wellness feels like a second job; a  back-to-basics reset  beats biohacks as the $1.8T market keeps growing.

  2. 🤖 LLM agents are reshaping knowledge bases with 6 design patterns emerging in the wild; from pilots to production.

  3. 🧭 In choppy markets, use AI and real-time data to  prioritize what really counts  and double down on your winners.

Financial Modeling Bootcamp
for Startup Founders

Leveraging over 12 years of hands-on startup experience, our CEO, Caya, created a practical financial modeling bootcamp for startup founders. The course helps founders develop clear, investor-ready projections, better understand their fundraising needs, and track the core KPIs used to guide day-to-day and strategic decisions.

Marketplace Emerges Allowing Bots to Hire Human Workers

A new marketplace flips the script: bots hiring humans for real-world errands; Fiverr, minus the human middleman.

Since February 1, nearly 518,000 “rentable” humans have signed up, generating over 4 million visits, yet only about 11,000 bounties have posted, many closer to performance art than payroll. Agents can book and pay through escrow, Stripe, even crypto. Some listings promise the gentlest manager imaginable: an LLM that never raises its voice.

Right now, supply towers over demand. Great for experimentation; brutal for unit economics, at least until enterprise agents start scaling real budgets.

The upside is tangible: “last-yard” execution in the physical world, plus streams of proprietary data without ever building a robot.

But the risks are equally real. Murky liability. Scams. Malicious task-splitting. Worker safety questions no one has fully priced in. Expect regulators to dust off old marketplace and labor rules; and apply them to a workforce managed by code.

Startup Events and Deadlines

  1. 😎 TODAY! Crash Course in Financial Modeling l Feb 19 l Webinar 😎

  2. Web Agents Hackaton l February 28 - March 1 l San Francisco

How did we do?

Your feedback fuels us.

Login or Subscribe to participate

Keep Reading