This Week in Startups Docket for July 11, 2025
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- **Friend.com [5 minutes] LITTLE TECH**
- Friend sells a $129 AI-powered necklace that serves as your “digital companion.”
- **Paid.AI raises $21M Seed round [10 minutes] LITTLE TECH**
- AI picks/shovels are looking good
- GUSTO LIVE AD READ [30 seconds]
- Black Forest Labs looking to raise $200M+ at a $4B valuation [5 minutes] LITTLE TECH
- That’s quite the valuation for a one-year-old company
- Anthropic drops Claude Sonnet 4.5 [5 minutes] BIG TECH
- Claims its the best coding model in the world
- Circle’s community app is exploding [10 minutes] LITTLE TECH
- No, not the stablecoin Circle
- How big a business is AI slop?
- AI generated content is big business (for now)
- Fivetran may acquired bt Labs, creating possible IPO [10 minutes] LITTLE TECH
- VCs merging portcos is a 2025 trend
- TWiST500: Phia’s taking on shopping and Huxe is taking on OpenAI’s Pulse [5 minutes] LITTLE TECH
- Can startups take on the goliath?
- Main Character Energy
- Tai Lopez
- Taylor Humphrey
- Oura proves that healthtech is huge [5 minutes] BIG TECH
- Popular health ring is IPO-scale