Alex Konrad

Forbes Staff|Venture Capital

I'm a senior editor at Forbes covering venture capital and startups, especially in cloud and AI, out of New York. I edit the Midas List and Under 30 for VC, and created the Midas List Europe and Cloud 100 lists. I've written more than a dozen cover stories on business leaders

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PREMIUM10,417 viewsOct 8, 2024

Notion And Stripe Trust This Year-Old Startup To Make Sure Their AI Tools Work

Ankur Goyal's year-old startup is popular with Airtable, Brex, Notion, Stripe and others building AI products. The LLM Ops startup offers evaluations, logging and more.

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PREMIUM14,500 viewsSep 18, 2024

Mercor’s AI Interviewer Has Vetted 300,000 Job Candidates. Now It’s Valued At $250 Million.

Mercor, led by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $32 million in a Series A led by Benchmark at a $250 million valuation, twenty months its after founding.

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PREMIUM22,697 viewsSep 4, 2024

How Nichole Wischoff Won The Internet To Raise $50 Million For Her VC Firm

The Nashville-based popular poster on X and TikTok plans to write $1 million checks into startups in areas like the "new supply chain."

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PREMIUM11,570 viewsAug 22, 2024

Talent Startup Andela, Once Valued At $1.5 Billion, Taps Uber Exec As CEO

Ten-year-old startup Andela, valued at $1.5 billion, expects to grow its tech contractor marketplace by 15% this year.

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PREMIUM14,943 viewsAug 6, 2024

From OpenAI To Figma, These Are The 100 Hottest Cloud Companies

In 2024, startups riding the generative AI wave dominate the top of Forbes' annual list of the best private cloud companies.