Monzo Just Posted £1.7B in Revenue. Here Is the Pitch Deck That Started It All
Monzo reported full‑year results of roughly $2.1 billion in revenue, a 39% year‑over‑year increase, and $109 million in pre‑tax profit. The UK challenger bank now serves 15.2 million customers, adding a record 3 million in the past year. It is positioning itself for a potential IPO valued between $7.5 billion and $12.5 billion. The original 2017 pitch deck that secured $24 million at an $81 million valuation laid the groundwork for this growth trajectory.
Prompts Are Dead. Skills Are the New Moat.
Lovable announced its new Skills feature, a workspace‑scoped playbook system that lets non‑technical users create procedural AI instructions via simple markdown files. The rollout coincides with the company reaching $400 million ARR, adding $100 million in a single month and serving 8 million...
Claude Just Launched for Small Business. Here Is Everything You Need to Set It Up Today
Anthropic has introduced Claude for Small Business, a plugin for Claude Cowork that ties directly into core SMB tools such as QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. The add‑on delivers ready‑made workflows—including payroll planning, cash‑flow forecasting, invoice chasing,...
The VC Database Most Founders Spend Weeks Building
The VC Corner has launched a premium database of over 2,000 active U.S. venture‑capital firms, complete with fund websites, LinkedIn profiles, sector tags, stage filters, and partner‑level contact details. The list is filterable by stage, industry, and geography, and includes...
Sam Altman's 10 Rules for the AI Era
Sam Altman’s interview at Stripe Sessions distilled ten rules that reshape the AI era. He argues that releasing ChatGPT publicly, rather than keeping AI locked in labs, unlocked rapid adoption and set a new deployment paradigm. Altman also announced a...
YC Just Told You What to Build. Here Are the Ideas Worth Stealing.
Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch released a 15‑item request‑for‑startup list that moves beyond vague trends to concrete gaps solvable with AI, robotics and biology. The ideas span low‑pesticide agriculture, AI‑native service firms, personalized medicine, enterprise "company brain" knowledge layers, counter‑swarm...
The Investor Dashboard Most Founders Spend Weeks Building. Yours in 3 Steps
The VC Corner has launched a Dashboard Generator that converts a founder’s five‑year financial projection Excel file into a polished, investor‑grade dashboard in seconds. The tool supports 58 financial sections, ten chart types and three business models—AI‑SaaS, D2C and healthcare—while...
The US VC Database Most Founders Never Build
The VC Corner has launched a searchable database of 2,000 active U.S. venture‑capital firms covering pre‑seed to seed stages across every sector. Each record includes fund name, portfolio, focus, location, social links, investment count, exits and a full description, all...
Jensen Huang: 10 Lessons From the CEO Building the Most Important Company in History
In a two‑hour interview with Lex Fridman, NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang distilled ten strategic lessons, emphasizing that NVIDIA is a computing platform rather than a pure chip maker. He highlighted the risky but pivotal CUDA‑on‑GeForce bet that built an install...
2,500 Angel Investors. All SaaS. All Searchable.
The VC Corner has launched a searchable database of 2,500 angel investors who exclusively back SaaS companies. All investors have a track record of writing pre‑seed or seed checks, eliminating sector‑mix noise. The list is part of a premium subscription...
OpenAI’s Cap Table Just Leaked. Here’s What’s Actually Inside.
A reconstructed cap table for OpenAI Group PBC, valued at $852 billion post‑money, has surfaced, revealing a $122 billion round and a striking ownership picture. The document shows CEO Sam Altman listed with 0% equity, while SoftBank holds an 11.75% stake that...
The M&A Accretion/Dilution Model Every Founder and Investor Should Run Before Any Deal
The VC Corner blog post unveils a free seven‑sheet Excel model that lets founders and investors run a full accretion/dilution analysis on any M&A transaction. The tool calculates whether the acquiring company’s earnings per share (EPS) will rise or fall...
Every Resource a Founder Needs to Raise and Build. In One Place
The VC Corner has compiled a one‑stop library of fundraising resources for founders, ranging from curated investor lists and financial‑model templates to real pitch decks and due‑diligence checklists. The collection targets every stage of a raise, from pre‑seed to late‑stage,...
What's Your SaaS Company Worth in 2026?
Private B2B SaaS valuations in 2026 are now anchored to a regression‑derived formula based on 63 cash transactions. The baseline multiple ranges from 4.8x ARR for bootstrapped firms to 5.3x for equity‑backed ones, while companies with Rule of 40 above...
What Top-Tier VCs Actually Look For in 2026
Fundraising in 2026 has slowed dramatically, with deals now taking six to nine months versus three to four in 2021. Seed investors expect the same unit‑economics and go‑to‑market rigor that once belonged at Series A, and AI startups command roughly 42%...