Julia Hornstein

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Julia Hornstein is a venture capital reporter at The Information. She previously covered Silicon Valley, with a focus on defense tech companies, at Business Insider. In 2025, she received a Front Page Award for best new journalist. Julia graduated from Yale, where she studied history, and is originally from New York City. She's now based in San Francisco. Reach her at [email protected] or juliah.22 on Signal.

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General Catalyst Appoints Palo Alto Networks’ Arora to Board

Arora will serve as the firm’s first lead independent director, joining Taneja and General Catalyst chairman and managing director Kenneth Chenault on the board.

Handshake, Mercor Revenue Surges on Demand for Human Contractors to Train AI

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Exclusive: Mercor Hit Over $1 Billion in Annualized Gross Revenue Before Breach

The growth occurred before the startup was impacted by a supply chain attack involving open-source project LiteLLM.

The Startup Building Code Management Software for ‘Tokenmaxxers’

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Alphabet Fund In Talks to Lead OpenRouter Investment at $1.3 Billion Valuation

A startup that lets AI app developers choose from hundreds of models on its application programming interface is in talks to raise $120 million in new funding.