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The Founder Gazette
Startup news, held to newspaper standards

Filed under: mergers and acquisitions

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Exit strategy

Adviser: bolting on AI can cut what a buyer will pay

Itay Sagie argues that copilots, model integrations and third-party AI tools often read to an acquirer as vendor dependency rather than innovation. His test is whether the AI leaves behind an asset nobody else can copy.

№ 121 · 23 August 2026
Startup news

$250m exit collapses into fraud and forged-signature claims

VideoVerse's investors are still waiting to be paid a year after the deal was announced. Its founder is now a defendant in a cluster of Delaware cases.

№ 71 · 13 August 2026