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Alex Monroe

Startup Correspondent · StartupWireDaily

Alex covers venture capital, early-stage companies, and the startup ecosystem. He has reported on hundreds of funding rounds, interviewed founders from seed stage to IPO, and tracked the trends driving investment.

Articles by Alex Monroe

Silicon Is Back: Playground Global’s Decade-Long Bet On Hardware, Energy And Deep Tech Looks Prescient 13h ago

The AI Startup Funding Boom Is Not A Global Phenomenon 13h ago

Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features Yesterday

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips Yesterday

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots. Yesterday

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone Yesterday

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand? 2 days ago

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees 2 days ago

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M 2 days ago

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round 2 days ago

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO 2 days ago

MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle 3 days ago

A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight 3 days ago

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors 3 days ago

‘This System Wasn’t Built For Me’: Black Founders Became Investors To Change Venture Capital 3 days ago

Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking 4 days ago

Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective 4 days ago

Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds 5 days ago

India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns 5 days ago

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple 5 days ago

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’ 5 days ago

Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties 5 days ago

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models 6 days ago

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? Jun 14, 2026

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts Jun 14, 2026

Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown Jun 14, 2026

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger Jun 14, 2026

This thin under-pillow speaker helped me fall asleep without earbuds Jun 13, 2026

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living Jun 13, 2026

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it Jun 13, 2026