Saturday, November 7, 2026
Submit your startupVCs, funding, deals, markets and the economy behind tech.
Business / Fortune ·
An internal Q&A filed with the SEC tells DoorDash staff to stay unconnected until the deal closes, which could be mid-2028, to avoid antitrust trouble.
Business / TechCrunch ·
Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.
Business / Fortune ·
AI super PACs spent $79 million this cycle, most of it before November. Here’s what they got for it.
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In Ohio, $40 million in support couldn’t save crypto PACs’ preferred candidate.
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Fanatics backed Nebraska's failed mobile betting push, and a projected Democratic Congress has prediction markets, Rubin's newest bet, in its sights.
Business / Fortune ·
James Talarico is now Texas’ first elected Democratic Senator in nearly four decades. And it all started when one struggling student’s story inspired him.
Business / Fortune ·
Helena Foulkes spent decades in corporate before making a run for governor: ‘You can go for something and it doesn't work, and yet other gifts come’
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Democrats took control of the House and Senate, flipping Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas and Ohio.
Business / Fortune ·
The World Economic Forum provides a great example of catalytic leadership in action via its Global Accelerator for Earth Action (GAEA) initiative.
Business / Fortune ·
With the profession's traditional business model under strain, the taboo against outside capital is overdue for a reckoning.
Business / Fortune ·
A former Fed bank examiner and two EY-Parthenon leaders explain how to stress-test investments, shore up liquidity and rethink AI spending.
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"Fiscal gridlock seems the likely default."
Business / Fortune ·
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
Business / Fortune ·
The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are betting on multi-country trips to revive a tourism market that generated over $130 billion last year.
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More than half of all seed- through growth-stage venture capital raised in the U.S. so far in 2026 went to seven companies founded or led by men who are already billionaires. Together, these companies raised more than $260 billion in equity funding in the first 10 months of the year.
Business / Fortune ·
Yosemite has closed its cancer-focused second fund at $350 million, a serious jump from January’s first close at $200 million, investor Reed Jobs exclusively told Fortune.
Business / Fortune ·
The company has used convertible notes and a complex financing deal with Broadcom to backstop its AI infrastructure buildout. But analysts question whether it will be able to continue to tap funding at competitive interest rates.
Business / Fortune ·
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.
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Business / Fortune ·
The typical subscriber sees two or three films a month. Record revenue hasn’t yet erased AMC’s losses or the roughly $4 billion it owes.
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The four largest gifts to democracy programs from 2021 to 2025 created or expanded university institutes named for Leonard Schaeffer, the Rooneys, the Karshes, and the Kinders, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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Automakers are charging monthly for remote start and extra horsepower already built into cars. Next to a record $787 average car payment, the fees are easy to overlook.
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Abdul El-Sayed, Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton all campaigned against data centers, and even some Republicans moved their way.