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Five women founders will take the stage at 2 Penn Plaza on November 5 to pitch their food, beverage and beauty brands to judges from major retailers and investment firms. At stake is more than $100,000 in prize capital and services, plus something early-stage consumer brands rarely get: time in front of the people who decide what lands on store shelves.

The event is th...

Enterprises have moved from asking AI to suggest code to letting AI agents write it, query sensitive data, and call internal tools on their own. Security and engineering teams built their monitoring for human users and static software, so many of them now struggle to answer a basic question: what did that agent just do? Asymptote Labs builds the runtime infra...

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/21/2026 featuring funding details for Whop, Qualitate, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

Whop, a digital marketplace platform that...

Manufacturers now design products for many markets at once, and each market brings its own rules on chemicals, packaging, recycling, cybersecurity, and AI. Those rules usually reach engineers late, after spreadsheets, email threads, and outside consultants pass them between teams, so a requirement that could have shaped a design in week one forces a redesign shortly before la...

Enterprise sales software has spent a decade getting better at explaining what happened on a call after it ends. Recorders, note-takers and conversation analytics now capture every word, but they arrive too late to change what a rep says when a buyer raises an objection or asks a technical question, and most of those conversations now happen over video. Othello