Author: Jesse Landry

Good Culture never needed a reinvention arc. It needed patience, timing, and conviction in a category everyone else treated like a punchline. Cottage cheese sat in the back of the fridge for decades, ignored, misunderstood, and quietly powerful. Jesse Merrill saw that power after a doctor told him ulcerative colitis had no cure. Clean food became survival, cultured dairy became medicine, and a sleepy aisle became a mission. That origin story still hums through every lid they seal today. Founded in 2015 by Jesse Merrill and Anders Eisner, Good Culture took the most uncool product in dairy and treated it…

The grid is sweating. Not metaphorically. Literally. Artificial intelligence is pulling current like a deadlift, and the American electrical system is discovering what happens when twentieth-century infrastructure meets twenty-first-century compute. Data centers rise in months. Transmission lines take years. Consumers feel it in their bills. Utilities feel it in their inboxes. Washington feels it in the quiet panic behind words like competitiveness and security. This is the pressure in the room before anyone ever steps on stage, and it is now unmistakably tech news. On February 25 at 9:00 AM ET, Washington Post Live puts a microphone in front of…

MoonPay has always sounded like a promise. A soft name for a hard problem. Moving real money, across real borders, inside a system regulators actually watch. This week that promise got louder. On January 29, 2026, MoonPay confirmed what its scale had already forced into existence: compliance is no longer a back-office function, it is infrastructure. And infrastructure either scales or it breaks. This is the kind of tech news that signals maturity, not momentum theater. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Miami, MoonPay now serves more than 30 million verified users across 180 countries, powering crypto payments and Web3…

Biotech did not wake up politely in Q4 2025. It kicked the door. After three years of capital starvation, publicly traded U.S. drug developers pulled in more than $13 billion in secondary stock offerings in a single quarter, the biggest haul in over four years. This was not a victory lap. It was a reentry. The Wall Street Journal put its name on the moment through reporting by Peter Loftus, a signal that this was no longer chatter from bankers trying to will a market back to life. This is the kind of tech news that marks a turn, not…

January closes with a clean signal out of Palo Alto, not noise, not hype. C1 Fund Inc., trading on the NYSE as CFND, just logged its first portfolio company exit less than six months after its own public debut. The company is BitGo Holdings, Inc., now trading as BTGO, and the message is simple. Infrastructure that does the hard work eventually gets paid for showing up early and staying regulated when everyone else is loud. This is how credibility compounds inside a serious startup ecosystem. BitGo did not arrive overnight. Founded in 2013 by Mike Belshe, a former Google Chrome…

In 2012, Satyen Sangani, Aaron Kalb, Venky Ganti, and Feng Niu walked into the enterprise data mess with one deceptively clean question: how do you connect people with questions to people with answers? If that sounds polite, it was not. It was a dare. Because inside every big company, data does not live in one place. It hides. It multiplies. It contradicts itself like a witness who just remembered there are cameras. Alation did not win by pretending the chaos was cute. Alation went hunting for truth at scale. In 2015, Alation shipped the first modern data catalog powered by…

Fifty-five years is a long time to stay early. Most firms age into comfort. CRV stayed restless. Born in 1970 to commercialize MIT research, named after the Charles River that carried Boston’s original venture current, the firm learned early that proximity to ideas matters more than proximity to power. That instinct carried CRV west, from Cambridge to Palo Alto, without losing its spine. Same river. Different current. Same appetite for the moment before the market believes. CRV has raised more than $4.3 billion across twenty funds and backed over 750 companies. Eighty of them found public markets or meaningful exits.…

The name says war, not wonder. Ares Interactive did not show up to the mobile games market to meditate. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, this studio came out swinging with a posture that feels less like hype and more like intent. On Feb 3, 2026, Ares Interactive disclosed a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst, with Niccolo de Masi also participating. No prior institutional rounds. No warmup lap. Just capital, conviction, and a plan that reads like it was written by operators who have already seen the third act. Niccolo de Masi is not new to…

Software teams move fast. Attackers move faster. That tension is the entire modern software economy in one sentence, and it is exactly where RapidFort decided to plant its flag. Not in fear, not in compliance theater, not in another dashboard that tells you what is already broken. RapidFort went after the part nobody wants to touch. The software supply chain itself, where speed, security, and sanity usually fight to the death. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, RapidFort built a platform that treats software artifacts the way serious operators treat infrastructure. Harden it continuously. Validate it relentlessly. Remove…

Most people think electrifying fleets is about vehicles. It is not. It is about time, cash flow, and whether a small business owner wants to spend their Tuesday night reading utility tariffs instead of getting home for dinner. That is the tension Mitra EV stepped into, and it is why this $27M raise matters more than the headline suggests. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Mitra EV is not selling dreams or policy slogans. It is selling relief. No upfront cost EV leasing from GM, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Isuzu, and Chevy. Overnight Level 2 charging installed where the trucks…