Whatnot’s $545M Series G at $20B: Live Commerce Still Clears Mega-Rounds
ICONIQ, Lightspeed, and Avra led Whatnot’s $545M Series G at $20B as a16z, YC, and Kleiner Perkins stayed in — GMV already passed full-year 2025 in H1 2026.
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Malachyte's $10M Seed: Spotify Recs Tech Comes for E-commerce
Ex-Spotify engineers raised a $10M seed co-led by Bessemer and Gradient Ventures to bring real-time behavior intelligence — cold-start personalization without cookies — to retail storefronts.
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Las Vegas Startups and VC Firms in 2026: Sleeper, Zappos, Switch
Las Vegas venture map in 2026 — Sleeper’s fantasy sports scale-up, Zappos (Amazon), Switch’s data-center take-private, and VTF Capital (ex-VegasTechFund).
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Madison WI Startups and VC Firms in 2026: Exact Sciences, Fetch, gener8tor
Madison venture map in 2026 — Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS), Fetch, Understory, plus gener8tor HQ, HealthX Ventures, and Clarevia Ventures.
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NEA-Backed Wonder Raises $650M Series D at $9B Pre-Money for Food Tech
Wonder closed a $650M Series D at a $9B pre-money valuation in July 2026 with returning capital from NEA, Accel, and GV — funding robotics, AI kitchens, and a path toward a consumer food-tech IPO narrative.
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NYC Consumer and D2C: Warby Parker, Glossier, Rent the Runway, and the Post-2022 Reset
NYC was the original D2C capital. After the 2022 correction, which consumer models still work — and what NYC VCs fund today.