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The Deal Tape

Funding rounds, launches and C-suite moves, checked against the filing.

Startup Updates tracks US startup funding, product launches, C-suite changes at Fortune 500 companies and unicorns, and government decisions that affect business. Every name, title, company, product, place and number is checked against at least two sources, one of them primary where it exists. When sources disagree we show both. Corrections are dated at the top of the story.

How every story is checked

1. Research starts from primary sources: filings, company releases, official documentation, papers and government data.
2. Every person, company, product, place and number needs a primary source or two independent ones before it can appear.
3. A separate fact-check pass, which did not write the draft, re-checks each name and number against its source. A story that fails is held, not published.
4. Prices, salaries, scores and rankings carry an "as of" date. Company and lab claims are labelled as theirs.
5. We never claim hands-on testing we did not do.

Research, drafting and fact-checking are assisted by AI tools working under these rules. Sources are listed at the end of every story.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix it and add a dated correction note to the top of the story, saying what changed.

Who writes here

• Archit Tamrakar