Startups, Founders & Investment
Startups, Founders & Investment brings together the people, money, and difficult choices behind company building. REVELATIONS covers fundraising, leadership, failure, co-founder conflict, investor decisions, product strategy, and the transition from idea to institution. The collection treats growth as a human and operational story, not only a sequence of funding announcements.
27 stories in this collection
Why Sheryl Sandberg Is Betting on Smartphone Vehicle Inspections
Sheryl Sandberg’s $10 million investment in Self Inspection points to a quieter shift in automotive technology: turning ordinary smartphone cameras into infrastructure for decisions worth billions.
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026: How a Citywide Festival United the Region’s Tech Ecosystem
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026 brought more than 10,000 attendees, 150 brands, and 200 speakers to Georgia’s capital, turning the city into a platform for technology, culture, startups, investment, and cross-sector collaboration.
Daria Barkova: Art Profiling Turns the Inner World Into a Visual Map
Daria Barkova - creator of Art Profiling and The Path of the Lemon, on visual identity, personality analysis, entrepreneurship, AI, and why true individuality begins with the right to be yourself.
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi: How the City Became an Interface for a New Tech Region
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi turned the city into a regional interface for founders, investors, AI teams, fintech operators, Web3 projects, and creative industries — showing how new tech hubs are built through capital, culture, trust, and human connection.
Sam Kaploushenko: The Future of Money Is Invisible
Sam Kaploushenko - fintech and crypto growth executive on payments, regulations, white-lable infrastructure, AI, trust, and why the next financial revolution will feel almost invisible.
Google, Nike, Meta, Monday.com, Dolce & Gabbana: The Brands and Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss at Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi, the region’s most expansive technology movement, is returning this year with an even more influential lineup. Google, Nike, Dolce & Gabbana, Amazon, Amber, Fuckup Nights: the list goes on, ultimately bringing together over 200 speakers. On June 20, GTWT 2026 will host these guests at their flagship event, spread across five stages at Factory Tbilisi.
BWiGA will be held in Montenegro again in September
The Balkan Web3 and iGaming Awards will be held in Budva for the second year on September 30th.
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi Returns on June 19-21
On a Mission to Accelerate Regional Transformation: Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi Returns on June 19-21
David Lolaev: If the Future Is a Track, I Want to Drive First
David Lolaev - racing-minded entrepreneur on business as Formula 1, human competition, AI, digital twins, and why freedom is worth more than any finish line.
MISUMI’s Billion-Dollar Leap: Redefining Manufacturing with AI
MISUMI Group's $1B investment combines precision components with Fictiv's digital platform, signaling a major shift in manufacturing. The move is designed to streamline production processes in the Americas and beyond.
Arman Mamyan: In a World Built for Distraction, Discipline Becomes Power
Arman Mamyan - Lead Web3 Software Engineer, Co-Founder of Coverant, Integration Lead of Animoca Brands.
Andreii Bruiaka: Everyone Owns an App. Almost Nobody Owns the Engine
Andreii Bruiaka — entrepreneur, founder of Onicore.io, visionary.
Global Tech Weekend Tbilisi 2026 – The Region’s Largest Decentralized Tech Movement Returns to Tbilisi
From June 19–21, 2026, Georgia will once again bring together the tech ecosystems of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The region’s largest tech event, Global Tech Weekend (GTWT) Tbilisi, is back. This year, the GTWT flagship event on June 20 will be hosted at Factory Tbilisi, the capital’s cultural hub, gathering up to 20,000 international and local attendees over the weekend, including globally influential speakers who will appear exclusively on the GTWT stage.
Anastasia Drinevskaya: The future belongs to people
Anastasia Drinevskaya — New York-based producer, director, actress, and founder of AMG Production answers 22 questions and shares the revelations behind her creative journey.
AI Is Done Being a Toy. Now It Wants a Desk in Your Office
OpenAI has launched a new company, OpenAI Deployment Company, backed by more than $4 billion in initial investment, to help large organizations actually deploy AI inside their operations.
SoftBank Wants to Build the Future in France — and It Looks Like a Data Center
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is reportedly considering an investment of up to $100 billion in France, with a significant part potentially going into AI infrastructure, including data centers for generative AI services.
I Raised $8M and Still Failed
The money was real. The team was real. The market timing was not. A first-person account.
The Board That Betrayed Its Founder
It wasn't a coup. It was slower than that. A quiet erosion of trust that ended with a termination letter.
The Co-Founder Divorce Nobody Talks About
It's more common than failure. More painful than rejection. And almost nobody documents it honestly.
The Toxic Culture We Accidentally Built
We weren't bad people. We made bad systems. And the systems turned on us.
What Investors Don’t Tell You After They Pass
The real feedback lives in what they don't say. We decoded six months of polite rejections.
Why We Killed Our Best Product
Users loved it. The metrics were strong. We killed it anyway. The real reason took years to admit.
How OpenxAI Will Change the World’s Perceptions?
33 Q’s for Sergey Khusnetdinov
Dariush Soudi | What’s Really Behind This Success?
33 Q’s for Anna Lou
33 Q’s for Andranik Togramadzhian
Andranik Togramadzhian is one of the few people in Armenia that you 100% should know if you work in the cryptocurrency industry. The question "why" is best answered by his experience and his LinkedIn page ( / andranik-togramadzhian )