Ramp is a fintech company that delivers a modern financial operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards, automated expense tracking, bill payments, and seamless accounting integrations. Built to streamline and optimize spending, Ramp uses AI-driven automation to reduce manual work and identify savings in real time. By going beyond traditional finance tools, it offers greater visibility and control over company expenses. Trusted by thousands of organizations, Ramp helps teams make faster, smarter financial decisions.
Ramp has raised $200 million in a Series E round, bringing its valuation to $16 billion. The round was led by Founders Fund and included participation from Thrive Capital, D1 Capital Partners, General Catalyst, GIC, ICONIQ Growth, Khosla Ventures, Sands Capital, 8VC, Lux Capital, Stripes, 137 Ventures, Avenir Growth, and Definition Capital.
Ramp, headquartered in New York, New York, United States, was founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman, Gene Lee, and Karim Atiyeh. In 2021, the company joined the unicorn club. Currently, Ramp serves over 40,000 businesses, including leading companies like CBRE, Shopify, Anduril, Notion, Cursor, Vercel, Barry’s, and MAGNA-TILES.
Author: bobs
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Ramp Raises $200 Million at a $16 Billion Valuation
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The History of Satanism
Theology and Mythology. Roots and origins.
Notion of Satan in the religious texts.
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51% Human
Working title for the book about tech invading people.
“Humanity” is corrupted memory—a debug process stuck in a loop, trying to reconcile broken code.
The “AI GOD” isn’t evil—it’s dead. The humans are echoes of its crash report.
No happy ending: Just the horror of realizing you’re a glitch in a dead machine.
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Bet against the Internet
I think the internet is dying. It is human vs bot game now. So i’d better bet on human. Training professionals and digital hygiene is cool.
Let’s break down the chances of people actually leaving the internet and what’s driving this shift.
1. Is the Internet Really Full of Bots?
Yes—studies suggest:
- Nearly half of all internet traffic is automated (bots scraping data, spamming, or running AI-generated content).
- Social media is flooded with fake accounts (Meta estimates ~5% of Facebook accounts are fake, but some researchers say it’s much higher).
- AI-generated text, images, and videos are dominating platforms (ChatGPT, Midjourney, deepfakes).
Result: Many users feel like they’re talking to machines, not people.
2. Will People Actually Leave the Internet?
Unlikely completely, but we’re seeing shifts:
A. Moving to “Private Internet” (Less Bot-Infested Spaces)
B. Digital Detox & Reduced Engagement
C. The Rise of “Human-Verified” Spaces
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Could NFT be used to confirm authenticity of the image or video?
NFTs are recorded on a blockchain, which means the creator, timestamp, and transaction history are permanently stored.
If an artist or publisher mints an original image/video as an NFT, it creates a verifiable record of its origin.
Some NFTs include cryptographic hashes (digital fingerprints) of the original file, ensuring that any alteration can be detected.
Authenticity certificates could be valuable in the future.
If a well-known photographer, news agency, or artist mints an NFT, their reputation adds trust to the content.
Most NFTs store only a link to the image/video (often on centralized servers like IPFS or AWS). If the linked file is altered, the NFT’s authenticity is compromised.
To mint means to create or issue a new token (like an NFT or cryptocurrency) on a blockchain. It’s the process of turning a digital file (image, video, etc.) into a unique, tradable asset on the blockchain.
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Statsig Raises $100 Million and Hits Unicorn Status at a $1.1 Billion Valuation
Statsig is a cutting-edge data-driven product development platform that enables teams to produce better solutions more quickly. Statsig gives teams a comprehensive picture of product performance by automatically tracking the impact of each feature release, in contrast to conventional A/B testing tools. Teams may swiftly switch from underperforming features, double down on what works, and identify metric decreases in a matter of hours thanks to the robust product observability tools.
At a $1.1 billion valuation, Statsig has secured $100 million in Series C funding. ICONIQ Growth led the round, and Sequoia and Madrona, two previous investors, also participated. Statsig intends to use this investment to increase the capabilities of its platform, hire additional staff, and enable more businesses of all kinds to realize the full benefits of data-driven product development.
Vijaye Raji launched Statsig in 2021, with its headquarters located in Bellevue, Washington, in the United States. The business works in a variety of industries, including as artificial intelligence, gaming, business-to-business software, e-commerce, finance, and government. “In the past, product development was an art form, with innovative engineers and managers using their gut feelings to direct modifications. Today, that just isn’t enough,” stated Vijaye Raji, Statsig’s founder and CEO. By offering a comprehensive platform for data-driven decision-making, we are intensifying our efforts to support every product team in embracing the art and science of creating outstanding products.
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Hybrid Document Flow – paper and digital are the way to go
So yeah, i think we need to embrace the fact that sometimes the paper is better. And you can sign the paper which makes it a document.
Paper Flow give you the feeling of the project as something valuable. Digital cannot give such feeling.
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Cast AI Raises $108 Million at Around $850 Million Valuation
A business called Cast AI is creating automation solutions to streamline and optimize cloud workloads for demanding jobs like artificial intelligence. Cast AI uses cutting-edge machine learning to automatically analyze and improve Kubernetes clusters in real-time, in contrast to traditional solutions that merely monitor clusters and offer recommendations. As a result, cloud expenses are greatly reduced, performance and security are improved, and DevOps and engineering teams are more productive.
Cast AI is now valued at over $850 million after raising $108 million in a Series C financing sponsored by G2 Venture Partners and SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2.
Augustinas Stirbis, Austeja Zymantaite, Einaras von Gravrock, Laurent Gil, Leon Kuperman, Vilius Zukauskas, and Yuri Frayman launched Cast AI in 2019, with its headquarters located in North Miami Beach, Florida, in the United States.The business uses well-known cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to serve clients in a variety of industries throughout the world. According to Yuri Frayman, the CEO and co-founder of Cast, “it’s all about GPU, compute, and electricity.” Our goal is to increase efficiency so that we can support greater workloads on different GPUs. That is the focus of our work.
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Kombucha – is it risign in the next 3-5 years?
I see a lot of it in the stores. We have it from time to time at home.
One of the producers says the demand should rise in the future.
But is it true? So far he is struggling to scale it.