"Play the game better." @drinkpoppi cofounder @allisonellsworth shared her advice for women entrepreneurs with Fortune's #TermSheet and @agarfinks. bit.ly/4rvQQg1

Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M (@agarfinks / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

I’m filling in for @agarfinks for today’s Term Sheet! “Emily Forlini here. OpenAI and Anthropic are no strangers to controversy, but over the past week the heat on them has snowballed from a steady flame to a full-blown dumpster fire.” fortune.com/2026/09/10/a-str…

Thanks to @agarfinks for highlighting my John Ternus profile in the latest edition of Term Sheet: fortune.com/2026/09/04/john-… via @FortuneMagazine

While early wearables just counted steps, connected fitness giants like Oura and Tonal are using artificial intelligence to predict your recovery before you even feel it. Fortune senior writer @agarfinks goes inside the $2 trillion wellness economy to test the tech and analyze the multibillion-dollar data moats. bit.ly/4cLgQ11

Oura filed for a U.S. IPO on Thursday, revealing that it sold more than 3.6 million smart rings over the past year. CEO Tom Hale previously told @agarfinks that the Oura Ring is like having a “doctor in your pocket." bit.ly/4xJxNBq

My latest feature on @davidtisch, @BoxGroup, and Bearbricks! Oh, and how the @cursor_ai deal that @ClaireSmilow sourced started with less than $1 million–and became a billion-dollar return. Read it here: fortune.com/2026/08/26/david…

In my self promotion era... Very proud of the work my partners do everyday @BoxGroup... Humbled to work alongside @nkatragadda @ClaireSmilow @grosen @AdamRothenberg @adina_z_davis Honored to back founders year after year who have big dreams to change the world, and do... I hit the trifecta: proud, humbled and honored...

How David Tisch turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules fortune.com/2026/08/26/david…

Billionaire founder @MarcLore says Wonder uses an AI algorithm to determine who should get promoted. The serial entrepreneur joined Fortune's @agarfinks and the #TermSheet vodcast to explain his bet on the $9 billion food-tech enterprise. bit.ly/4qBmtV0

Some of the earliest money in Cursor (the largest vc-backed acquisition ever) turned a $750,000 investment into a ~$1 billion return. @davidtisch and his midas touch at Box Group strike again! Great profile here of one of the best early stage investors who wins while going against the grain @agarfinks fortune.com/2026/08/26/david…

Startups that looked hot a few years ago now look dead in the water as AI barrels ahead. @agarfinks asked VCs for candid thoughts on how much of their portfolios are at risk. One cited 10-20%, but I bet the reality is much, much higher for most. fortune.com/2026/08/20/portf…

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (@agarfinks / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

"I've already trained a ChatGPT voice model with everything that I know for it to be able to hypnotize an individual." In the latest episode of #TermSheet, Fortune's @agarfinks sat down with Mentalist @itsmaxmajor to explore the emerging world of AI hypnosis. bit.ly/4g0P94M

"I do think a lot of venture capitalists are going to lose a lot of money in the defense tech boom." Fortune's @agarfinks joins @Ellie_Austin_ and #FortuneDaily to explain the bubble. bit.ly/4x788lu

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (@agarfinks / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

"He is one of the best sellers on Whatnot." In the latest episode of Fortune's #TermSheet, @Whatnot CEO Grant LaFontaine told Fortune's @agarfinks that one seller made $4,000 an hour while selling actual fish on a livestream from his boat. bit.ly/3RjU7l9

Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M (@agarfinks / Fortune) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

For decades, scent remained computing's final analog frontier. Now Osmo has done what many thought impossible: digitized smell. Fortune's @agarfinks visited Osmo to learn more about the world’s first olfactory intelligence platform and how the $130 million startup is using AI to bottle up smells. bit.ly/4f9CMo5

Watch @agarfinks’s full @fortunemagazine feature with Founder and CEO @awiltschko: piped.video/watch?v=bpiANTus…